820
Views
21
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The sacred music of Islam: Samā’ in the Persian Sufi tradition

Pages 1-33 | Published online: 31 May 2008

References

  • Ahmad , Aziz . 1969 . An Intellectual History of Islam in India. , Edinburgh Univ. Press .
  • Hirtenstein , S. and Tieman , M. 1993 . “Ibn ‘Arabi's Risāla Rūh al‐quds as ‘Excerpts from the Epistle on the Spirit of Holiness’ ” . In Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi: a commemorative volume , Edited by: Boase , Roger and Sahnoun , Farid . 44 – 72 . Dorset : Element .
  • Burckhardt , Titus . 1986 . Sacred art in East and West: principles and methods , Edited by: Northborne , Lord . Middlesex : Perennial Books .
  • Bürgel , J.C. 1988 . The Feather of Simurgh: the “licit magic” of the arts in medieval Islam , 89 – 118 . New York : New York University Press .
  • Cantarino , Vicente . 1975 . Arabic poetics in the Golden Age. , Leiden : E.J. Brill .
  • Casewit , S. 1985 . “The mystical side of the Muqaddimah: Ibn Khaldun's view of Sufism.” . Islamic Quarterly , XXIX ( 3 ) : 172 – 85 .
  • Coomaraswamy , A. 1977 . “The philosophy of mediæval and Oriental Art.” . In Coomaraswamy, selected papers: traditional art and symbolism, I , Edited by: Lipsey , R. 43 – 70 . Princeton University Press .
  • Corbin , Henry . 1990 . “Sens musical de la mystique persan.” . In L'Iran et la philosophic , 245 – 50 . Paris : Fayard .
  • _____ . 1990b . Spiritual body and celestial earth: from Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran , Edited by: Pearson , N. London : I.B. Tauris .
  • During , Jean. 1988 . Musique et extase: Vaudition mystique dans la tradition soufie. , Paris : Albin Michel .
  • _____ . 1989 . Musique et mystique dans les traditions de L'Iran , Bibliotheque Iranienne 36 Leuven : Editions Peeters .
  • _____ . 1993 . “What is Sufi music?” . In The legacy of mediæval Persian Sufism , Edited by: Lewisohn , L. 277 – 87 . London : KNP .
  • Emerson , Ralph Waldo . 1983 . “Swedenborg; or, the Mystic.” . In Ralph Waldo Emerson: essays and lectures. , New York : Library of America .
  • d'Erlanger , C. 1930 . La musique arabe. , Paris : Paul Geunthner .
  • Farmer , H.G. , ed. 1942 . Music: the priceless jewel (from the Kitāb al‐'iqd al‐farid of Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi (d. 940) Bearsden, Scotland n.p.
  • _____ . 1952 . ‘The religious music of Islam.” . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: , : 60 – 5 .
  • Feldman , Walter . 1993 . “Mysticism, didacticism and authority in the liturigical poetry of the HalvetT dervishes of Istanbul.” . Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures , NS IV ( 2 ) : 243 – 66 .
  • Ficino , Marcilio . 1985 . Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love , Edited by: Jaynes , S. Woodstock : Spring Publ. .
  • al‐Ghazāli, Abū Hāmid (n.d.) Vol. 2 of Ihya’ ‘ulūn al‐din. 4 vols. Damascus.
  • _____ . 1954 . Kimiyā‐yi sa'ādat , 2nd ed. , Edited by: Ārām , Ahmad . Tehran : Markazi . 1319 A.Hsh/1940
  • _____ . 1969 . Munqidh min al‐dalāl , 2nd ed. , Edited by: Jabre. , F. Beirut : Commission Libanaise pour la Traduction des Chefs‐d'oeuvre .
  • Ghomi , Haideh . 1995 . “The samā’ in the ghazaliyyat of Moulānā Jalāleddin Rūmi.” . Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference of Iranian Studies . 1995 , Rome. Edited by: Fragner , Bert G. pp. 191 – 206 . Istituto Italiano per ii Medio ed Estremo Oriente .
  • Graham , Terry . 1988–9 . “The influence of Sufism on music in Islamic countries.” . In Sufi Vol. 1 , 22 – 7 .
  • Gribetz , A. 1991 . “The samā’ controversy: Sufi vs. legalist.” . Studia Islamica , LXXIV ( 74 ) : 43 – 62 .
  • Hodgson , Marshall . 1977 . The venture of Islam , 3 vols. , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • al‐Hujwiri . 1976 . Kashf al‐mahjūb: The oldest Persian treatise on Sufism , Edited by: Nicholson , R.A. London : Luzac & Co. .
  • Hussaini , Syed and Khusro , Shah . 1983 . Sayyid Muhammad al‐Husayni‐i Gisūdirāz (721/1321–825/1422) on Sufism. , Dehli : Idarah‐i Adabiyat‐i Dehli .
  • Khaldūn , Ibn . 1958 . Al‐Muqaddimah , Edited by: Rosenthal , F. 3 vols. , New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
  • Ellis , A.G. 1894 . Catalogue of Arabic books in the British Museum London
  • Kiyani , Muhsin . 1990 . Tārikh‐i khānaqāh dar Irān. , Tehran : Kitābkhāna Tahūri . 1369 A.H.sh.
  • Lāhiji , Muhammad , Ridā , Muhammad and Khāliqi , Barzgār . 1371 A.Hsh./1992 . Mafātih al‐i'jāzfi sharh‐i Gulshan‐i rāz. , Tehran : Zawwar . ‘Iffat Karbāsi
  • Lewisohn , Leonard , ed. 1993 . The legacy of mediaval Persian Sufism. , London : KNP in association with the SOAS Centre of Near & Middle Eastern Studies .
  • _____ . 1995 . Beyond faith and infidelity: the Sufi poetry and teachings of Mahmūd Shabistari. , London : Curzon .
  • Macdonald , D.B. l901–2a . “Emotional religion in Islam, part 1.” . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , : 195 – 252 . (A translation of Ghazāli's book on samā’ from the Ihyā’.)
  • _____ . 1901–2b . “Emotional religion in Islam, part 2.” . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , : 705 – 48 .
  • _____ . 1903 . “Emotional religion in Islam, part 3.” . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , : 1 – 28 .
  • Maghribi , Muhammad Shilrin . 1993 . Diwān‐i Muhammad Shirin Maghribi , Edited by: Lewisohn , Leonard . Tehran : Tehran University Press . and London: SOAS Publications
  • Massignon , Louis . 1954 . Essai sur les origines du lexique technique de la mystique musulmane. , Paris : Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin .
  • Michon , Jean . 1991 . “Sacred music and dance in Islam.” . In Islamic spirituality II: Manifestations , Edited by: Nasr , S.H. 469 – 505 . New York : Crossroad .
  • Miller , Lloyd . 1998 . Music and song in Persia: the art of Āvāz. , London : Curzon Press .
  • Mitchell , David . 1986 . “Nature as theophany.” . Temenos , VII : 94 – 114 .
  • Nasr , S.H. 1987 . “Islam and music: the views of Rūzbihān Baqli, the Patron Saint of Shiraz.” . In Islamic art and spirituality , 151 – 62 . Suffolk : Golgonooza Press .
  • Nicholson , R.A. 1980 . Studies in Islamic mysticism , Dehli : Idarah‐i Adabiyat‐i Dehli reprint .
  • Nurbakhsh , Javad . 1982 . "Samā’.” . In Dar kharābāt. , 53 – 90 . London : KNP .
  • _____ . 1984 . Sufi symbolism I: the Nurbakhsh Encyclopedia of Sufi Terminology , Edited by: Lewisohn , L. London : KNP .
  • Ormsby , Eric L. 1991 . “ ‘The taste of truth: the structure of experience in al‐GhazaH's Al‐Munqidh Min Al‐Dalāl” . In Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams , Edited by: Hallaq , W.B. and Little , D.P. 133 – 52 . Leiden : E.J. Brill .
  • Paris 1374 A.Hsh./1995 Interview Iran‐khabar, Year 2 18 Khurdād p.9
  • Raine , Kathleen . 1979 . “Science and imagination in William Blake.” . Temenos , I : 31 – 45 .
  • Rizvi , S. 1941 . “Music in Muslim India.” . Islamic Culture , XV ( 3 ) : 331 – 40 .
  • Robson , James . 1938 . Tracts on listening to music. , vol. 34 NS , London : Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund .
  • Rouget , Gilbert . 1985 . Music and trance: a theory of the relations between music and possession , Edited by: Biebuyck , B. Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Roy Choudhury , M.L. 1957 . “Music in Islam.” . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , XXm ( 2 ) : 43 – 102 .
  • Rūmi , Jalāl al‐Din . 1925—40 . Mathnawi‐yi ma'nawi , Edited by: Nicholson , R.A. 8 vols. , London : Luzac & Co. .
  • _____ . 1951 . Fihi mā fihi,Badi’ , Edited by: Furūzānfar , al‐Zamān . Tehran : Dānishgāh . 1330 A.Hsh.
  • _____ . 1976 . Kulliyāt‐i Shams yā Divān‐i Kabir , Edited by: Furūzānfar , B. 10 vols. , Tehran : Amir Kabir .
  • Sa'di . 1973 . Būstān , Edited by: irānparast , N. Tehran : Dānish . 1352 A.Hsh.
  • Schimmel , Annemarie . 1975 . Mystical dimensions of Islam. , Chapel Hill : University of N. Carolina Press .
  • Shabistari , Mahmūd . 1986 . Majmū'a‐i āthār‐i Shaykh Mahmūd Shabistari , Edited by: Muwahhid , Samad . Tehran : Kitābkhāna‐i Tahūri . 1365 A.Hsh.
  • Shehadi , Fadlou . 1995 . Philosophies of music in medieval Islam. , Leiden : E.J. Brill .
  • Shepherd , John . 1994 . “Phenomenological perspectivism.” . British Association for the Study of Religion Bulletin , 71 : 11 – 6 .
  • Shiloah , Amnon . 1978 . The Ikhwān al‐Safā's Epistle on Music. , Tel‐Aviv University .
  • 1964 . “L'épitre sur la musique des Ikhwan al‐Safā'” . Revue des Études Islamiques , 32 : 125 – 62 .
  • _____ . 1980 . “The dimension of sound.” . In The world of Islam: faith, people, culture , 2nd ed. , Edited by: Lewis , Bernard . London : Thames & Hudson . transl./intro.
  • _____ . 1993 . “Music in the pre‐Islamic period as reflected in Arabic writings of the first Islamic centuries.” . In The dimension of music in Islamic and Jewish culture , Collected Studies Series CS393 Vol. X , 110 – 21 . Aldershot : Variorum .
  • _____ . 1995 . Music in the world of Islam: a socio‐cultural study. , Aldershot : Scolar Press .
  • Suhrawardi , Shihāb al‐Din . 1985 . Awārif al‐ma'ārif Abū Mansūr ‘Abd al‐Mu'min Isfahāani , Edited by: Ansāri , Qāsim . Tehran : Sharkat‐i Intishārāt‐i ‘Ilm wa Farhangi . (1364 A.Hsh./
  • Tavener , John . 1988 . “Composing sacred music.” . Temenos , : 32 – 7 . DC
  • al‐Tūsi , Ahmad b. Muhammad . 1938 . Bawāriq al‐ilmā’ , Edited by: Robson , James . vol. 34 NS , London : Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund . Arabic text (attributed mistakenly by Robson to Majd al‐Din al‐Tūsi al‐Ghazāli).
  • _____ . 1981 . Samā’ va futuwwat , Edited by: Mujāhid , Ahmad . Tehran : Manūchihri . (1360 A.Hsh./
  • Vaux , Carra de . 1930 . La musique arabe , Paris : Paul Geunthner .
  • Wickens , G.M. , ed. 1974 . Morals pointed and tales adorned: the Būstān of Sa'di. , Leiden : E.J. Brill .
  • Wright , O. 1993 . "Mūslki” . In Encyclopaedia of Islam, , 2nd ed. , Edited by: Bosworth , C.E. vol. 7 , 681 – 8 . Leiden : Brill .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.