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Author: Alexander D. Knysh
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780791439678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the fierce controversy over the legacy of Ibn 'Arabi, the great Islamic mystic.
Author: Michel Chodkiewicz
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780946621392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1 A Shared Name 2 ‘He who sees thee sees Me’ 3 The Sphere of Walaya 4 The Muhammadan Reality 5 The Heirs of the Prophet 6 The Four Pillars 7 The Highest Degree of Walaya 8 The Three Seals 9 The Seal of Muhammadan Sainthood 10 The Double Ladder
Author: Alexander D. Knysh
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780791439685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the fierce controversy over the legacy of Ibn 'Arabi, the great Islamic mystic.
Author: Gregory A. Lipton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019068450X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring how the medieval mystic Ibn 'Arabi has been read as an inclusive universalist through the interpretative field of Perennial Philosophy, this book shows how his metaphysics is inseparably intertwined with Islamic supersessionism. Ibn 'Arabi's universalist reception is thus traced to lineages of Eurocentrism, revealing how Perennialism is itself exclusionary.
Author: Ibn al-ʻArabī
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9788187219828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isobel Jeffery-Street
Publisher: Comparative Islamic Studies
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845536718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe influence of Ibn 'Arabi, the 12th century Andalusian mystic philosopher extended beyond the Muslim world from Spain, to China, to Indonesia.The study investigates how the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society has evolved into an international organisation with increasing influence in both the West and the Muslim world.
Author: Michel Chodkiewicz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1993-07-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0791499006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Ocean Without Shore is a study of Ibn Arabi, known in Islam as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the Greatest Spiritual Master. In the introduction, Chodkiewicz provides a good deal of documentation for the often heard claim that Ibn Arabi has been the most influential thinker in Islam over the past seven hundred years. He shows that this has been true, not only among the intellectual elite, but also among the common believers. He explains why a few Muslims have considered Ibn al-Arabi the greatest heretic of Islam, while for many others he is Islam's greatest spiritual teacher. In the main body of the book, Chodkiewicz demonstrates that Ibn Arabi's writings are firmly grounded in the Koran. In doing this he also shows that Ibn Arabi's Koranic roots run far deeper than has heretofore been imagined. He explains that principles of Ibn Arabi's Koranic hermeneutics with unprecedented clarity, and in bringing out the primary importance of the Shaykh's magnum opus, The Futuhat Makkiyya, he solves a good number of riddles about the text that have puzzled modern readers. Chodkiewicz's work shows how, for Ibn Arabi, the iniatory voyage is a voyage in the divine word itself.
Author: Claude Addas
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780946621446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi is undoubtedly a landmark in Ibn Arabi studies. Until the publication of this book, anyone who wanted to learn about the life of Ibn Arabi has had little choice of material to work from. This major study by Claude Addas is based on a detailed analysis of a whole range of Ibn Arabi's own writings as well as a vast amount of secondary literature in both Arabic and Persian. The result is the first-ever attempt to reconstruct what proves to have been a double itinerary: on the one hand, the journey that took Ibn Arabi from his native Andalusia to Damascus - and on the other hand, the 'Night Journey' which carried him along the paths of asceticism and prayer to the ultimate stage of revelation of his mystic quest.
Author: Özgen Felek
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1438439954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreams and visions have always been important in Islamic societies. Yet, their pervasive impact on Muslim communities and on the lives of individual Muslims remains largely unknown and rather surprising to Westerners. This book addresses this gap in understanding with a fascinating and diverse account, taking readers from premodern Islam to the present day. Dreams and visions are shown to have been, and to be, significant in a range of social, educational, and cultural roles. The book includes a wealth of examples detailing the Sufi experience. Contributors use Arabic, Persian, Indian, Central Asian, and Ottoman sources and employ approaches grounded in history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religious studies, and literary analysis. This is an illuminating work, showing how ordinary Muslims, Muslim notables, Sufis, legal scholars, and rulers have perceived both themselves and the world around them through the prism of dreams and visions.
Author: Samer Akkach
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0791483444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new translations, a number from unpublished sources, and several illustrations. Referencing a wide range of mystical texts, and with a special focus on the works of the great Sufi master Ibn Arabi, Akkach introduces a notion of spatial sensibility that is shaped by religious conceptions of time and space. Religious beliefs about the cosmos, geography, the human body, and constructed forms are all underpinned by a consistent spatial sensibility anchored in medieval geocentrism. Within this geometrically defined and ordered universe, nothing stands in isolation or ambiguity; everything is interrelated and carefully positioned in an intricate hierarchy. Through detailed mapping of this intricate order, the book shows the significance of this mode of seeing the world for those who lived in the premodern Islamic era and how cosmological ideas became manifest in the buildings and spaces of their everyday lives. This is a highly original work that provides important insights on Islamic aesthetics and culture, on the history of architecture, and on the relationship of art and religion, creativity and spirituality.
