The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism : ʿAbdallāh B. Al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunnī Identity in the Second Islamic Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Biography of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak -- The Sources of Ibn al-Mubārak's Biography -- ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak: His Life and Career as Presented inClassical Texts -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Recording of Ḥadīths through Writing -- Ibn al-Mubārak the Merchant -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Fiqh -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Theology -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Jihād -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Role in Ḥadīth Transmission -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Zuhd -- Chapter 2 - ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and Ḥadīth -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Role in Ḥadīth Transmission -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Unpublished Books -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Published Works -- Teachers and Students of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak -- Ibn al-Mubārak and the Ḥadīth Networks in the Second/EighthCentury -- Chapter 3 - Jihād in the Career of Ibn al-Mubārak -- The Thughūr before Ibn al-Mubārak -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Martial Pursuits as Depicted in the ClassicalSources -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Kitāb al-Jihād -- Transmitters of the Kitāb al-Jihād -- Intentions and Jihād -- Chapter 4 - Ibn al-Mubārak and His Zuhd -- What is Zuhd? -- Ibn al-Mubārak: The Rich Ascetic -- Ibn al-Mubārak's Kitāb al-Zuhd -- Analysis of the Kitāb al-Zuhd -- The Genre of Books on Zuhd (Kutub al-Zuhd) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

This book examines the way in which early Muslims begin to understand normative Islamic practice through the role of Muslim scholars who define, preserve, and pass on Islamic traditions. This later becomes the foundation of Sunni identity and Sufi piety. In the figure of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak (118-181/736-797), we find a paragon of the fields of ḥadīth, zuhd, and jihād, as attested to by the large number of references to him in the classical Islamic texts.

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