caa a22 4500 388101830 CHVBK 20180307125324.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800055471 doi S0020743800055471 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800055471 Hoffman Valerie J. Annihilation in the Messenger of God: The Development of a Sufi Practice [Elektronische Daten] [Valerie J. Hoffman] Scholars have long noted that the Prophet Muhammad assumed increasing importance in Sufi thought and practice over the centuries. For Sufis, belief in Muhammad's perfection often went beyond the standard affirmation of his immunity from error, and sometimes went so far as the assertions of the Spanish Arab Qadi Iyad (d. 1149/50) that Muhammad had assumed all the qualities embodied in the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Belief in Muhammad as a primordial cosmic light of divine origin is documented as early as the 8th to 9th centuries, and reached its fullest exposition in the works of Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) and his successors. Popular devotion to the Prophet in the form of poetry in his honor and celebrations of his birthday is documented at least as early as the 13th century. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 351-369 0020-7438 31:3<351 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800055471 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800055471 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hoffman Valerie J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 351-369 0020-7438 31:3<351 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge