Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn Al-'Arabi

ISBN-13: 9781032019024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 222 str.

Mukhtar H. Ali

Opis

This volume is a rigorous analysis of the main doctrines of Ibn al-ʿArabī, which dominated spiritual and intellectual life in the pre-modern and early modern Islamic world for over six hundred years.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Ontology  2. The Divine Names and Attributes  3. Divine Knowledge  4. The Origin of Multiplicity  5. The Universal Worlds  6. The Imaginal World  7. Unveiling  8. The Human Vicegerency  9. The Existential Circle  10. The Supreme Spirit in the Microcosm  11. Prophethood, Messengership and Sainthood  12. Resurrection  Conclusion  Bibliography   

O autorze

Mukhtar H. Ali is a Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. He specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and ethics, and has published widely in various peer-reviewed venues. He has also translated several works in classical and contemporary Islamic metaphysics, which include The Principles of Correspondences (2013) and The New Creation (2018) and The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn al-ʿArabī in the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī (2020).