The Muslim Theology of Huzn: Sorrow Unravelled

Mahshid Turner

doi:10.2307/j.ctv4ncpd4

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-040-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-041-2
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 259
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. The Objective No access
2. Said Nursi and pastoral theology No access
3. Scope and Structure No access
1. 1. Typology of the word ḥuzn No access
  2. Criteria for the obviation of ḥuzn No access
  3. Thematic categorization of the word ḥuzn No access
  4. Ḥuzn as a test or trial No access
  5. Stress given as a lesson not to grieve No access
  6. Stress given as a lesson that one should not ‘own’ good deeds No access
  7. Satan used as a means of testing mankind No access
  8. God gives ḥuzn and also takes it away No access
  9. The testing of Prophetic judgment No access
  10. Reminders, reassurance and comfort given to Prophets and believers so that they may avoid ḥuzn No access
  11. The reassurance and comforting of Prophets No access
  12. The reassuring and comforting of the faithful No access
  13. ῌuzn due to separation and loss No access
2. 1. Semantic analysis No access
  2. Quranic key terms in history No access
  3. The difference between ‘basic’ and ‘relational’ meanings No access
  4. Primary and secondary level ethical terms No access
  5. The limitations of the Izutsian method No access
  6. Application of the Izutsian method No access
  7. The concept of ḥuzn (‘sadness’) in the Quran No access
  8. The difference between the Meccan and Medinan verses No access
  9. Derivatives of ḥ-z-n in the Medinan verses No access
  10. Derivatives of ḥ-z-n in the Meccan verses No access
  11. The lexical meaning of ḥuzn No access
  12. Derivatives of ḥ-z-n in the Quran No access
  13. The Izutsian analayis of the semantic field of ḥuzn No access
  14. Words which appear to be synonymous with the word ḥuzn: their basic and relational meanings No access
  15. The relational meaning of khawf with ḥuzn No access
  16. Words which appear to be synonymous with khawf No access
  17. Those who follow guidance (hudā) No access
  18. The semantic structure of antonyms of ḥuzn No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. 1. Quranic exegesis (tafsīr) No access
  2. Exegetes from the classical period No access
  3. Contemporary exegesis No access
  4. Selected Quranic narratives No access
  5. Characteristics of those who will not experience sadness (ḥuzn) and fear (khawf) No access
  6. Those who follow God’s guidance No access
  7. Those who believe No access
  8. Avoidance of sadness and fear through total submission and being a ‘doer of good’ No access
  9. Avoidance of sadness and fear through spending of wealth for the sake of God No access
  10. Avoidance of sadness and fear through belief, righteous deeds and charitable giving No access
  11. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who are killed ‘in the cause’ of God No access
  12. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who believe in God, the Last Day and carry out righteous deed No access
  13. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who believe and reform No access
  14. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who fear God and reform No access
  15. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who are ‘the friends of Allah’ No access
  16. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who recognise God as their Lord and remain on the straight pa No access
  17. Obviation of fear and sadness by ‘God’s devotees’ No access
  18. Avoidance of sadness and fear by those who have confirmed their belief in God and remained on that p No access
2. 1. Fear and sadness given as a test No access
  2. Fear and sadness stemming from loss and separation No access
  3. Comforting, consoling and reassuring the prophets and the faithful in times of ḥuzn No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. The Mu’tazīlites No access
  2. The Jabrīyya No access
3. 1. The Stoics No access
  2. Epictetus No access
4. 1. Al-Kindī on metaphysics No access
  2. Al-Kindī on ethics No access
  3. The Epistle of Ya’qῡb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī on the Device for Dispelling Sorrows (Rīsāla Ya’qūb b. Īsḥā No access
  4. Part One (Introduction to the Epistle) No access
  5. Part Two: Important principles for dispelling sorrow No access
  6. The training of the soul No access
  7. The classification of sorrow No access
  8. SECTION THREE No access
  9. Devices to dispel sorrow No access
  10. Part Four: Al-Kindī’s Conclusion No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Main thoughts of other Muslim scholars on the concept of ḥuzn No access
7. 1. Balkhī’s methods of dealing with sadness and fear No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. 1. Avicenna’s definition of ḥuzn No access
  2. Avicenna’s description of the soul No access
  3. Detachment from worldly possessions No access
  4. Avicenna’s remedy for ḥuzn No access
10. 1. The concept of happiness according to Miskawayh No access
  2. Miskawayh’s sixth discourse No access
  3. Miskawayh’s sixth discourse on the health of the soul (nafs), its preservation and restoration No access
  4. The preservation of the health of the soul No access
  5. Discussion of the restoration of health to the soul when health is missing No access
  6. Fear: its causes and remedy No access
  7. Fear of death: its causes and remedy No access
  8. The remedy for grief (ḥuzn) No access
11. 1. Al-Rāzī’s Spiritual Physick No access
  2. Al-Rāzī’s ‘Of Repelling Grief’ No access
  3. Precautions against the occurrence of grief No access
  4. The manner in which grief may be repelled or lessened No access
12. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Historical context No access
3. Family context No access
4. Nursi’s educational background No access
5. Intellectual and spiritual influences No access
6. Nursi’s attempts at educational reform No access
7. The ‘Old Said’: Nursi’s involvement in politics No access
8. The works of the ‘Old Said’ No access
9. The ‘New Said’ (1926-1948) No access
10. Nursi’s inner struggles and spiritual rebirth No access
11. The New Said’s Life and Works No access
12. Conditions during Mustafa Kemal’s rule No access
13. Persecution of the ‘New Said’ No access
14. The ‘Third Said’ and the last years of his life No access
15. Conclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Nursi on the limitations of ‘human reasoning’ No access
3. The Nursian concept of sadness No access
4. The definition of ḥuzn according to Said Nursi No access
5. Ḥuzn due to the ‘literature of civilization’ No access
6. Nursi on Divine Unity (tawḥīd) No access
7. Belief and unbelief No access
8. Nursi’s definition of happiness No access
9. Permanence versus transience No access
10. Denial of death: sorrow due to misguidance, heedlessness and ungratefulness No access
11. The obviation of ḥuzn through belief in God’s Mercy No access
12. The heart’s journey of purification No access
13. The ‘trust’: The human ‘I’ No access
14. The obviation of ḥuzn through belief in revelation, prophethood, the hereafter and Divine determinin No access
15. The Jabriyya and the Mu’tazīlites on Divine determining (qadar) No access
16. Insights into Nursi’s theodicy No access
17. Does Nursi’s ‘negative ḥuzn ’ have a positive role to play? No access
18. The sadness of the Prophets No access
19. Conclusion No access
Conclusion No access Pages 201 - 208
1. Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna) manuscript on ḥuzn in Arabic No access
2. Translation of manuscript No access
3. Ibn Sina - Above manuscript rough translation into English - with the help of Abed Al-Zuweiri 18 Mar No access
1. Chapter 1 No access
2. Chapter 2 No access
3. Chapter 3 No access
4. Chapter 4 No access
5. Chapter 5 No access
6. Chapter 6 No access
7. Conclusion No access
Bibliography No access Pages 239 - 246