Muslim Devotions: A Study of Prayer-Manuals in Common Use

347 Pages·1969·13.577 MB·English

by  Constance E. Padwick

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MUSLIM DEVOTIONS
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MUSLIM DEVOTIONS
A Study of Prayer-Manuals
in Common Use
CONSTANCE E. PADWICK
LO N D O N
S • P • C • K
First published in 1961
Reprinted 1969
by SJ>.C.K.
Holy Trinity Church
Marylebone Road
London N.lV.i
Printed by offset in Great Britain by
William Clou/es and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles
© Constance E. Padwick, 1961
SBN 281 00786 1
CONTENTS
Introduction xi
Part i : TYPE-NAMES FOR DEVOTIONS 3
Part 2: O N THE TH RESH O LD OF THE
PR A YE R -R IT E
1. The Call to Prayer 29
2. The Prayer of Mediation 37
3. The Intention 48
4. The Prayer of Confrontation 55
Part 3: W ITH IN THE PR A Y E R -R IT E
Analysis of Two Rakfas 64
5a. The Worship of Praise: Praise of Transcendence 65
5b. The Worship of Praise: Thankful Praise 75
6. Refuge-Taking 83
7. The Name in Worship 94
8. The Recitation 108
9. The Worship of Stillness 121
10a. The Witness of Islam (Shahada): To the Unity 126
ioh. The Witness of Islam (Shahada): To the Prophet 137
lla. The Calling Down of Blessing: The Blessing of
the Prophet 152
llb. The Calling Down of Blessing: Abraham and all
the Prophets 167
12a. The Worship of Penitence: The Sinner Destitute
before his Lord 173
12b. The Worship of Penitence: The Vocabulary of
Sinning in the Manuals 189
12c. The Worship of Penitence: The Forgiving Lord 198
13a. The Worship of Petition: Traditional Petitions 209
13b. The Worship of Petition: The Beggar at the Door 214
14. The Element of Greeting 220
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Past 4: O U TSID E THE P R A Y B R -R IT E
15. The Saints in Worship 235
16. The Worship of the Creator 245
17. Answers to Prayer: God the Doer 259
18. The Last Things 273
Appendices
1. List of Manuals 289
2. Single Devotions 298
GbnbralIndex 305
Index of Q ue’An Vbrses 312
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Much rich kindness must be left to the thanks of Him who
is Ash~Shikir. Here I can only offer my gratitude to a few—
to Miss E. N. Aidin of Isfahan, for prayers used in her city;
to Archdeacon Barakat Ullah, formerly of Lahore, for taking
me round the bookshops there; to Dr Dwight M. Donaldson,
formerly of Meshed, for his analysis of the relevant parts of
the Shi*a traditionists; to Dr Hendrik Kraemer, for reading
and criticizing the manuscript; to Dr Howard Read, for
modem Turkish booklets; to Miss Freya Stark, for informa­
tion about the Ba-alawi leaden in Hadramaut; to Miss
Katherine Henrey and the Reverend Donald Blackburn for
long labour on the transliteration of the Arabic; to the
S.P.C.K. for expert care spent on a troublesome manuscript;
to Dr W . Montgomery Watt for his kindness in reading
the proof; and not least to those under whose roofs the
book was put together, the Russian nuns of Ain Karim near
Jerusalem and the hostesses of Harlesford, Brighton, and
Whitehill Chase, Bordon.
C onstance E. Padwick

NOTE
In translation the customary honorifics, except after
the name of God, have been omitted. The word
Muhammad is sometimes represented by M. The
names of well-known places are printed in western
spelling.