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State University of New York Press - William C. Chittick

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The Self-Disclosure of God offers the most detailed presentation to date in any Western language of the basic teachings of Islam's greatest mystical philosopher and theologian. It represents a major step forward in making available to the Western reading public the enormous riches of Islamic teachings in the fields of cosmology, mystical philosophy, theology, and spirituality.

The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author's investigations of the world view of Ibn al-Arabi, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the "seal of the Muhammadan saints." The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-Arabi's interpreters. Like Chittick's earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-Arabi's monumental work, al-Futuhat al-makkiyya "The Meccan Openings." More than one hundred complete chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indices of sources, Koranic verses and hadiths. The book's index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular.
Introduction

Knowledge of the Cosmos

Ibn Basic Themes

The Principles of£ Ibn Cosmology

The Breath of the All-Merciful

Cosmic Language

The Translator's Dilemmas

A Note on Format

I. God and the Cosmos

1. Wujud and the Entities

Signs, Marks, and Proofs

Selves and Horizons

Wujud

From Chapter 73: The One Hundred and Third Question

Causality

God's Knowledge

Chapter 475: God's Waymarks

Chapter 411: The Precedent Book

God's Form

The Nonexistent Entities

From Chapter 463: The Third Pole

Chapter 493: New Arrival

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Lights

The Entities and the Names

Chapter 406: Nothing Has Become Manifest

Chapter 451: The Stairs

Thingness of Fixity

2. Perpetual Self-Disclosure

Creation

From Chapter 73: The Thirtieth Question

From Chapter 558: The Presence of the Creation and the Command

Self-Disclosure

Unending Renewal

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Bringing Back

Infinity

From Chapter 198: The All-Merciful Breath

Chapter 524: God's Infinite Words

The One Entity

From Chapter 360: The Ninth Deputyship

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-First Tawhid

Bewilderment in the Many and the One

Chapter 507: Shame

Chapter 542: Blindness

Chapter 391: The Quick-Flowing Course

Chapter 430: Bewilderment in Arrival

From Chapter 369: Annihilation and Subsistence

Chapter 473: Your God Is One God

From Chapter 72: Trotting around the Kaabah

3. The Face of God

The Face

Perishment

Chapter 165: Realization

From Chapter 73: The Ninety-Seventh Question

Discerning the Face

From Chapter 351: Yielding

Chapter 527: Desiring the Face

The Veil

Chapter 254: The Curtain

Revelation

Chapter 384: Mutual Waystations

4. Veils of Light

The Veil of Self

Occasions

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-Fifth Tawhid 127/From Chapter 198: The Third-Second Tawhid

The Identity of the Veil and the Face

From Chapter 370: The Path of Exaltation

Chapter 514: Trust in God

The Specific Face

From Chapter 198: Depending on What Falls Short

Witnessing the Specific Face

From Chapter 379: The Servant of the Praiseworthy

Chapter 265: The Arriver

Chapter 396: The Veils of Knowledge

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Teaching

Glories

Chapter 458: The Facial Glories

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Light

Chapter 100: The Station of Fear

Chapter 101: The Station of Abandoning Fear

II. The Order of the Worlds

5. The Roots of Order

The Unity of Manyness

Unity and Totality

The Even and the Odd

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Bringing Together

Ranking in Excellence

God's Choices

From Chapter 73: The Fifty-First Question

From Chapter 72: Eating the Forbidden

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-Third Tawhid

Order

From Chapter 360: The Sixth Deputyship

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of the Servant's Posteriority

6. Divine and Cosmic Relations

The First and the Last

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Firstness

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Lastness

The Manifest and the Nonmanifest

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Manifestation

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Nonmanifestation

Chapter 256: The Shining of t

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	26 mars 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791498965
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	43 Mo

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