Gregory Barhebraeus’ Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic Tradition

Gregory Barhebraeus’ Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic TraditionIslamic History and Thought 23Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/TX53ZMXZ/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.JenniferGriggsGregory Barhebraeus’ Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic Traditionhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/TX53ZMXZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/TX53ZMXZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/TX53ZMXZPiscataway, New JerseyGorgias Press2022Islamic History and Thought 23This book explores the mystical thought of Gregory Barhebraeus (1226–1286 CE) and its contemporary relevance, to offer a reading of Barhebraeus’ mystical texts by bringing them into conversation with critical religious studies and the hermeneutical tradition of philosophy. Griggs emphasises the problem of conceptual categories for the academic study of mysticism, seeking to avoid traditional assumptions concerning ‘mysticism’ and attend to the particularity of ‘mystic’ traditions. Through this approach, she examines the mystical hermeneutics of the love of God developed by Barhebraeus, as a response to the elaboration of this theme by the Islamic theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī (1058–1111 CE), and as a resolution of the tensions between scholastics and ascetics within his own Syriac tradition. Griggs, Jennifer. Gregory Barhebraeus’ Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic Tradition. Islamic History and Thought 23. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2022. Jennifer Griggs, Gregory Barhebraeus’ Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic Tradition, Islamic History and Thought 23 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2022).BarhebraeusGodJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEXIII CEal-Ghazalilovemysticismspirituality