A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr - The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī - S.Z. Chowdhury
Vita Sulamii
A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr - The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī - S.Z. Chowdhury
S.Z. Chowdhury [+]
Independent Scholar
S.Z. Chowdhury, PhD is an examiner and school teacher in History, World Religions as well as Theory of Knowledge and his research areas include Metaphysics, Sufism, Qur’ānic Studies and Islamic Law. He lives and works in London.
Description
Chapter Four outlines the biographical data on al-Sulamī, highlighting amongst other aspects his teachers, students and lineage. It will also include evaluative material assessing al-Sulamī’s influences upon later Ṣūfī practitioners and masters of the discipline in addition to both positive and negative remarks made by subsequent Muslim scholars regarding his integrity as a theoretician and Ḥadīth expert.