The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi : Sufism through the Eyes of ʻImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)

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	Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Illustrations
	Transcription Table
		Abbreviations
	Introduction
		1	A Contextual Approach to Studying Sufism(s)
		2	Situating Ibn Taymiyya’s Circle in Its Context
		3	Sufism, Traditionalists, and the Circle of Ibn Taymiyya
		4	Book Outline: al-Wāsiṭī’s Two Journeys
	Part 1
	The Physical Journey (al-Riḥla)
		Introduction Part 1
			Al-Wāsiṭī’s Autobiography
		Chapter 1
			Leaving Home, Bastion of the Spectacular Rifāʿīs
				1	Al-Wāsiṭī’s Early Context
					1.1	Wāsiṭ under the Ilkhanids
					1.2	An Ilkhanid–Rifāʿī Friendship?
				2	Al-Wāsiṭī versus the Rifāʿiyya
					2.1	Shaykhdom in the Rifāʿiyya
					2.2	Rifāʿī Practice: Samāʿ and Miracle-Working
					2.3	Depictions of the Rifāʿiyya: Antinomians or Mainstream Sufis?
				3	Al-Wāsiṭī’s Final Years in Iraq
					3.1	The Sober Shāfiʿī Jurists
					3.2	The Baghdadi Sufis
				Appendix 1: The Line of Rifāʿī Shaykhs in Umm ʿUbayda and Wāsiṭ
					Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd −̶−̶−̶→  ʿIzz al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm
		Chapter 2
			Scholastic Sufism of the Alexandrian Shādhiliyya
				1	The Egyptian Context
					1.1	Stagnation and War
					1.2	Egypt’s Sufi Capital?
				2	Enter the Shādhiliyya of Alexandria
					2.1	The Network of the Early Shādhiliyya
					2.2	The Doctrine of the Early Shādhiliyya
					2.3	The Success of the Shādhiliyya
		Chapter 3
			The Final Steps: From Heretics to the Saved Sect
				1	Cairene Convents and Monistic Sufis
					1.1	The Sufis of Convention
					1.2	The Heresy of the Ittiḥādiyya
				2	Conversion to the Saved Sect: Ibn Taymiyya’s Damascene Circle
					2.1	Sufism and Ḥanbalī Piety in Damascus
					2.2	In the Company of Ibn Taymiyya: Ṣuḥba under the Shaykh al-Islām
					2.3	A Shaykh of Sufism for the Taymiyyan Circle
				Appendix 2: The Ḥadīth-Scholars Attended by the Taymiyyan Circle
				Appendix 3: Biographies of al-Wāsiṭī’s Companions from Ibn Taymiyya’s Circle
	Part 2
	The Spiritual Journey (al-Sulūk)
		Introduction Part 2
			Sulūk as Sufism
		Chapter 4
			Traditionalist Sufism: Outlining the Foundations of the Journey
				1	Introduction
				2	The Muḥammadan Way (al-Tarīqa al-Muḥammadiyya)
					2.1	The Origins of the Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya
					2.2	How to Practice the Muḥammadan Way
					2.3	The Role of the Shaykh in the Muḥammadan Way
				3	Sound Maʿrifa of God and His Attributes
					3.1	What is Maʿrifa of God?
					3.2	Affirmation versus Metaphorical Interpretation
					3.3	The Critical Importance of Direction
				4	What Sufism is Not: Refuting the Deviations of Sufis
					4.1	Sufi Audition (Samāʿ)
					4.2	Philosophy and Kalām
					4.3	The Monistic Akbarians
				5	Conclusion
		Chapter 5
			Progressing Towards the Beloved through the Degrees of Witnessing
			1	Introduction
				2	Putting Maʿrifa into Practice
					2.1	Servitude through the Divine Names and Attributes
					2.2	The Heart as the Locus of Witnessing
				3	The Sequence of the Degrees of Witnessing (Tartīb al-Mashāhid)
					3.1	The Heart’s Witnessing of Divinity (Mashhad al-Ilāhiyya)
					3.2	The Heart’s Witnessing of Lordship (Mashhad al-Rubūbiyya)
					3.3	Al-Wāsiṭī’s Shaykhs and Their Teachings Regarding Divinity and Lordship
					3.4	Other Degrees of Witnessing by the Heart
					3.5	The Spirit’s Witnessing of Union (al-Jamʿ) and Singularity (al-Fardāniyya)
				4	Conclusion
		Conclusion
			How does the Journey Continue?
	Bibliography
	Index of Qur’an and Ḥadīth References
	Index of Technical Terms
	Index of Persons, Groups, and Places