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The Sufi Path of Knowledge
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Ibn al-'Arabi is still known as "the Great Sheik" among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization. He was a great philosopher, theologian, and poet.

William Chittick takes a major step toward exposing the breadth and depth of Ibn al-'Arabi's vision. The book offers his view of spiritual perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and soteriology. The clear language, unencumbered by methodological jargon, makes it accessible to those familiar with other spiritual traditions, while its scholarly precision will appeal to specialists.

Beginning with a survey of Ibn al-'Arabi's major teachings, the book gradually introduces the most important facets of his thought, devoting attention to definitions of his basic terminology. His teachings are illustrated with many translated passages introducing readers to fascinating byways of spiritual life that would not ordinarily be encountered in an account of a thinker's ideas. Ibn al-'Arabi is allowed to describe in detail the visionary world from which his knowledge derives and to express his teachings in his own words.

More than 600 passages from his major work, al-Futuhat al-Makkivva, are translated here, practically for the first time. These alone provide twice the text of the Fusus al-hikam. The exhaustive indexes make the work an invaluable reference tool for research in Sufism and Islamic thought in general.

Introduction

The Life and Works of Ibn al-'Arabi
The Meccan Openings
Koranic Hermeneutics
The Study of Ibn al-'Arabi in the West
The Present Work

1. Overview

1. The Divine Presence
Finding God
Worlds and Presences
Being and Nonexistence
The Divine Attributes
The Divine Acts
The Macrocosm
The Microcosm
Cosmic Dynamics
The Return to God
Assuming the Traits of God
Theomorphic Ethics
The Scale of the Law
Seeing Things as They Are
Human Perfection

2. Theology

2. The Names of God
Names, Attributes, and Relationships
(1) The Names of the Names
(2) Relationships
(3) The Two Denotations of the Names
(4) Realities, Roots, and Supports
(5) Properties and Effects
The Names of Engendered Existence
Secondary Causes

3. The Divine Roots of Hierarchy and Conflict
Hierarchy in the Names
Ranking in Degrees
The Names Personified
The Divine Conflict
The Unity of the Essence
Names of Incomparability and Names of Acts

4. The Essence and the Divinity
The Divinity
The Unkowability of the Essence
The Independence of the Essence
The Name "Allah"
The Disputes of the Angels
Incomparability and Similarity
Incomparability
Similarity
Combining Incomparability and Similarity

3. Ontology

5. Existence and Nonexistence
Being/Existence and the Existent: Wujud and Mawjud
Possible Things
Entities
Things
Loci of Manifestation
Self-Disclosure and Receptivity
Oneness of Being and Effects of the Names

6. The New Creation
Infinite Possibility
Perpetual Renewal
Divine Tasks
Breaking Habits
Transmutation and Transformation
Never-Repeating Self-Disclosures
Boredom
The Heart
Nondelimitation

7. Cosmic Imagination
He/Not He
Imagination
Dreams
The Manifestation of the Impossible

8. The Supreme Barzakh
The Cloud
The Breath of the All-Merciful
Relief Through Mercy
The Real Through Whom Creation Takes Place
The Universal Reality
Nature

4. Epistemology

9. Knowledge and the Knower
Knowledge and Knowledge
The Usefulness of Knowledge
Limits to Knowledge
The Infinity of Knowledge

10. Acquiring Knowledge
The Rational Faculty
Reflection
Consideration
Following Authority
Unveiling

11. The Scale of the Law
The Revealed Law
The Scale
Wisdom and Courtesy
The Scale of Reason
Affirming Similarity
Reactions to the Revelation of Similarity

5. Hermeneutics

12. Faith and Rational Interpretation
Faith
Interpretation
The Rational Thinkers
Acts of God and Acts of Man

13. Knowing God's Self-Disclosure
Finding Light
The Lights of Self-Disclosure
Naming the Perception of Light
Witnessing and Vision

14. Understanding the Koran
The Goal of Rational Inquiry
Reason versus Unveiling
The Character of Muhammad
The Context of the Koran
The Commentary of the Folk of Allah
Commentary by Allusion
Knowledge of Hadith

6. Soteriology

15. Weighing Self-Disclosure
Knowledge and Practice
The Inviolability of the Law
Spiritual States
Spiritual Mastery

16. Names and Stations
The Divine Form
The Stations of the Path
Assuming the Character Traits of God
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Informations

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Date de parution 31 mars 2010
Nombre de lectures 0
EAN13 9780791498989
Langue English
Poids de l'ouvrage 28 Mo

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