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نحو القلوب

Nahw al-Qulub

al-Qushayri(Auth.)
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Nahw al-Qulub is a unique short work by Imam al-Qushayri in which the structures of Arabic grammar — the harf, the kalima, the noun-verb-particle distinction, ifrad and tathniya, the operators and the operated-upon, the marfu, the mansub, the majrur — become metaphors for the disciplines of the spiritual heart.

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Nahw al-Qulub is a unique short work by Imam al-Qushayri in which the structures of Arabic grammar — the harf, the kalima, the noun-verb-particle distinction, ifrad and tathniya, the operators and the operated-upon, the marfu, the mansub, the majrur — become metaphors for the disciplines of the spiritual heart. The book is at once a piece of pedagogical wit (it teaches grammar through spirituality and spirituality through grammar) and a remarkably original contribution to Sufi prose: the wayfarer's heart is, like the Arabic sentence, a structured organism in which every state governs and is governed by another.

Read primarily within Sufi circles as a curiosity and as a meditation on the structural unity of the inner and outer sciences, the work has no real parallel in classical Sufi literature.

About The Author

Imam Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (376-465 AH / 986-1072 CE) was a Khurasani Shafii jurist, Ashari theologian, and Sufi master. His al-Risala al-Qushayriyya is the foundational systematic exposition of Sunni Sufism; his Lataif al-Isharat is among the major Sufi tafsirs.

عن الكتاب

"نحو القلوب" رسالةٌ فريدة للإمام القشيري يَستعير فيها أبواب النحو العربي — الحرف، والكلمة، والاسم والفعل والحرف، والإفراد والتثنية، والعامل والمعمول، والمرفوع والمنصوب والمجرور — استعارةً لأحوال القلب. الرسالةُ في آنٍ واحدٍ طريفةٌ تعليمية تُعَلِّم النحوَ بالتصوف، وتُعلّم التصوّفَ بالنحو، وإسهامٌ نثري نادر في تراث الصوفية.

عن المؤلف

الإمام أبو القاسم عبد الكريم القشيري (٣٧٦-٤٦٥ هـ) فقيه شافعي ومتكلّم أشعري وشيخ صوفي خراساني. "رسالته القشيرية" متن التصوّف السنّي الكلاسيكي، و"لطائف الإشارات" من أمّهات التفاسير الصوفية.

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al-Qushayri: Imam Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Karim ibn Hawazin al-Qushayri rahimahullah (376-465 AH / 986-1072 CE) was one of the foremost scholars of Khurasan in his era, combining mastery of Shafi'i fiqh, Ash'ari kalam, hadith, and Sufi spiritual training. He received Sufi formation under Abu Ali al-Daqqaq of Nishapur, his father-in-law and spiritual master, and studied kalam under Abu Bakr ibn Furak. His al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, completed in 437 AH, is regarded as the most authoritative classical systematization of Sunni Sufism: it opens with biographical notices of early Sufi imams from al-Fudayl ibn Iyad through al-Junayd and al-Qushayri's own teachers, then provides a systematic exposition of the technical vocabulary of the path, and concludes with an extended treatment of the conduct of the spiritual wayfarer. Later scholars such as al-Suhrawardi in the Awarif al-Ma'arif and al-Ghazali in the Ihya drew upon it extensively. His Lataif al-Isharat stands among the major works of Sufi tafsir, and Nahw al-Qulub and Tartib al-Suluk are widely-read shorter Sufi treatises.

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Binding Paperback
Publisher Dar Kashida
Author al-Qushayri
Pages 88
Year Published 2021
Size W- | H- | D-
Number of Volumes 1
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