On Wine-Drinking in Sufi-Philosophical Islam: A Response to Shahab Ahmed

IF 0.6 0 RELIGION Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI:10.1163/22105956-bja10030
Arjun Nair
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Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic is perhaps the most ambitious book in Islamic Studies of the last fifty years. One of the ways specialists might engage critically with Ahmed’s work is with his various presentations of the ideas of different Muslim actors featured in his re-conceptualization of Islam, upon which Ahmed often constructs his own positive theses. Does he represent their ideas accurately enough to justify the work that they do for him? For example, Ahmed’s treatment of “Muslim wine-drinking” relies on his setting up an opposition between the norms of the Law and an alternative set of norms determined by “Sufi-philosophical Islam.” In this paper, I suggest that Ahmed misrepresents this relationship. A careful study of the ideas invoked by Ahmed to support his thesis shows that a Sufi-philosophical exploration of wine-drinking was in fact compatible with the Law, even as it transcended It.
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论苏菲哲学伊斯兰的饮酒:对沙哈布·艾哈迈德的回应
Shahab Ahmed的《什么是伊斯兰教?》《身为伊斯兰教徒的重要性》也许是过去五十年来伊斯兰研究中最雄心勃勃的著作。专家们可能会批判性地看待艾哈迈德的工作的一种方式是,他对不同的穆斯林行动者的观点进行了各种各样的展示,这些观点体现在他对伊斯兰教的重新概念化中,艾哈迈德经常以此为基础构建自己的积极论点。他是否足够准确地表达了他们的想法,以证明他们为他所做的工作是合理的?例如,艾哈迈德对“穆斯林饮酒”的处理依赖于他在法律规范和“苏菲哲学伊斯兰教”确定的另一套规范之间建立了对立。在本文中,我认为艾哈迈德歪曲了这种关系。仔细研究艾哈迈德为支持他的论文而引用的观点就会发现,苏菲哲学对饮酒的探索实际上是与法律相容的,即使它超越了法律。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Sufi Studies furnishes an international scholarly forum for research on Sufism. Taking an expansive view of the subject, the journal brings together all disciplinary perspectives. It publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the historical, cultural, social, philosophical, political, anthropological, literary, artistic and other aspects of Sufism in all times and places. By promoting an understanding of the richly variegated Sufi tradition in both thought and practice and in its cultural and social contexts, the Journal of Sufi Studies makes a distinctive contribution to current scholarship on Sufism and its integration into the broader field of Islamic studies.
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