Interpreting Ibn ¿Arab¿: Philosophy, Theology and Exegesis in Later Islam offers a comprehensive and critical examination of one of Islam's most enigmatic and influential thinkers.
Interpreting Ibn ¿Arab¿: Philosophy, Theology and Exegesis in Later Islam offers a comprehensive and critical examination of one of Islam's most enigmatic and influential thinkers.
Arjun Nair is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California
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Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction The Problems (mushkil t) of the Fu : Interpretive Divergences From the Lack of Understanding ( adam al-fahm): Solving the Problems of the Fu The Present Study: Interpreting Ibn Arab 1 "All is He, All is Not He": The Vision of Huwa-l Huwa The Entities (äy n) are Not Made (ghayr maj l) and Non-Existent (mäd m) The Mirror-Entities and the Color-Entities The Pre-Existent Forms ( uwar) of the Entities: The Cloud, the Barzakh, the Creator-Real 2 Divine Power and Human Freedom The Essence (Dh t) and the Divinity (Il h), Determination (taqd r) and Creation (khalq) Freedom and Compulsion, Responsibility (takl f) and Predestination (qadar) 3 Incomparability and Similarity To Affirm Incomparability is to Affirm Limitation (täd d) and Restriction (taqy d) Transcending the God of Beliefs (al-il h al-mu taqad t) The Divinity Clothed in Forms of Belief: Worshiping the Idols of Belief 4 "Created in his/His Form": The All-Comprehensive Form of Man Originated and Beginningless ( dith azal ), Perpetual and Endless (d im abad ) The Problem of Man's Firstness (awwaliyya) Creation (khalaqa) in Two Senses: Determination (taqd r) and Existentiation ( j d) 5 Becoming a Form of God ( rat al- aqq) The False Form ( ra b ila) of the Pharaoh of Moses (Fir awn M s ) The Form of al-Kharr z, One of the Tongues of God (lis n min alsinat al- aqq) 6 The Messenger takes his Knowledge from the Seal of the Saints The Prophets (anbiy ) in the Fu al- ikam The Seal of the Saints: "the space for two bricks" (maw i labinatayn) 7 Interpreting the Qur n Between täw l, ish ra, and ub r: Ibn Arab 's Qur nic Hermeneutics Abraham's Sacrifice (dhab ), God's Deception (makr), Drowning in Knowledge 8 The Hermeneutics of Mercy The Faith of Pharaoh ( m n Fir awn) in Q. 10:90-92 From Torments ( adh b) to the Sweetness of Torments ( udh ba) Conclusion: Interpreting the Shaykh al-Akbar "He/not He" Revisited: Ambiguity and Knowledge as Perplexity ( ayra) "He who does not know the status of imagination has no knowledge" Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction The Problems (mushkil t) of the Fu : Interpretive Divergences From the Lack of Understanding ( adam al-fahm): Solving the Problems of the Fu The Present Study: Interpreting Ibn Arab 1 "All is He, All is Not He": The Vision of Huwa-l Huwa The Entities (äy n) are Not Made (ghayr maj l) and Non-Existent (mäd m) The Mirror-Entities and the Color-Entities The Pre-Existent Forms ( uwar) of the Entities: The Cloud, the Barzakh, the Creator-Real 2 Divine Power and Human Freedom The Essence (Dh t) and the Divinity (Il h), Determination (taqd r) and Creation (khalq) Freedom and Compulsion, Responsibility (takl f) and Predestination (qadar) 3 Incomparability and Similarity To Affirm Incomparability is to Affirm Limitation (täd d) and Restriction (taqy d) Transcending the God of Beliefs (al-il h al-mu taqad t) The Divinity Clothed in Forms of Belief: Worshiping the Idols of Belief 4 "Created in his/His Form": The All-Comprehensive Form of Man Originated and Beginningless ( dith azal ), Perpetual and Endless (d im abad ) The Problem of Man's Firstness (awwaliyya) Creation (khalaqa) in Two Senses: Determination (taqd r) and Existentiation ( j d) 5 Becoming a Form of God ( rat al- aqq) The False Form ( ra b ila) of the Pharaoh of Moses (Fir awn M s ) The Form of al-Kharr z, One of the Tongues of God (lis n min alsinat al- aqq) 6 The Messenger takes his Knowledge from the Seal of the Saints The Prophets (anbiy ) in the Fu al- ikam The Seal of the Saints: "the space for two bricks" (maw i labinatayn) 7 Interpreting the Qur n Between täw l, ish ra, and ub r: Ibn Arab 's Qur nic Hermeneutics Abraham's Sacrifice (dhab ), God's Deception (makr), Drowning in Knowledge 8 The Hermeneutics of Mercy The Faith of Pharaoh ( m n Fir awn) in Q. 10:90-92 From Torments ( adh b) to the Sweetness of Torments ( udh ba) Conclusion: Interpreting the Shaykh al-Akbar "He/not He" Revisited: Ambiguity and Knowledge as Perplexity ( ayra) "He who does not know the status of imagination has no knowledge" Bibliography Index
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