Joe Glynias

The Syrian Abdāl : The Development of Muslim Eremitic Asceticism on the Black Mountain in the Early Abbasid Period

This article reconstructs an understudied tradition of early Muslim eremitic asceticism centred on Syria’s mountainous frontier, particularly the Black Mountain (Jabal al-Lukkām) and Mount Lebanon, from the eighth through tenth centuries. Drawing primarily on Sufi biographical li...