Ibn Al-'Arabī And Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367869885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Caner K. Dagli

Opis

Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture traces the history of the concept of "oneness of being" (wahdat al-wujūd) in the school of Ibn al- 'Arabī, in order to explore the relationship between mysticism and philosophy in Islamic intellectual life. It examines how the conceptual language used by early mystical writers became i

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Theoretical Considerations: Cutting the Pie of Mysticism, Philosophy, and Theology 2 Setting the Stage for the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī 3 Metaphysical Preliminaries 4 Qūnawī’s Metaphysics 5 Jandī’s Use of Wujūd and Related Concepts 6 Kāshānī: Conditioning and Proving God’s Existence 7 Qayṣarī and the Centrality of Existence Conclusion

O autorze

Caner K. Dagli, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, is a specialist in Sufism, Islamic philosophy, interfaith dialogue, and Quranic studies.