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Pre‐Manichaean Beliefs of the Uyghurs II: Other Religious Elements

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 586-603, December 2023., 2023
The original beliefs of the Uyghurs, which have been overshadowed by their conversion to Manichaeism and Buddhism, have not been thoroughly studied until recently. However, Uyghur inscriptions as well as Chinese and Islamic sources provide us with some information regarding their beliefs. In the first part of this article series, the Uyghurs' belief in
Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç
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Taming the nafs: Unbounded spirits and mental illness in militarized Pakistan

Ethos, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 401-415, December 2023., 2023
Abstract In Pakistan, jinn afflictions reveal the maddening effects of displacement, economic inequality, and household conflicts. In this article, I consider how healers treat conditions of the nafs (soul), specifically its impurity and corruption through material desires, as enhancing the susceptibility of clients to jinn affliction where healers ...
Sanaullah Khan
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Knowledge and Causality in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Book of Giving, and the Buddhist Notion of Dependent Origination

Religions, 2022
This paper introduces the otherwise unstudied Arabic treatise on knowledge, the Book of Giving, penned by the influential Muslim mystic, Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 1240).
Aydogan Kars, Ashkan Bahrani
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Qurrat al-ʿAyn, the Maiden of the Kaʿba: On the Themenophany Inspiring Ibn ʿArabī’s Tarjumān

Religions, 2021
Qurrat al-ʿAyn is the name of the enigmatic Maiden who appeared alongside Ibn ʿArabī when he was inspired to recite the four verses that open The Interpreter of Desires, as he was wandering around the Kaʿba.
Pablo Beneito
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Eugenio Trías e Ibn 'Arabī: una sombra de la filosofía del límite

Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2020
Este artículo explora la relación entre la filosofía del límite de Eugenio Trías y el sufismo de Ibn ʿArabī. En primer lugar, pretende explicar la función de la filosofía de la religión en el sistema triasiano y por qué el maestro andalusí ocupa un ...
David Fernández Navas
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The Category of Relation in Arabic-Islamic Philosophy

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2018
The main sources for the discussion of the category “relation” were Aristotle’s Categories and Metaphysics. Before their translation into Arabic in the 8th and 9th centuries, Christian theologians and in their footsteps Syriac scholars considered ...
Hans Daiber
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Desiring the Sweet Perfume of Closeness in the Oscillating Tawajjuh of the Letter Rāʾ

Religions, 2023
This article delves into the concept of tawajjuh through a poem and a prayer ascribed to the Arabic letter rāʾ, which expresses key themes in the Akbarian tradition.
Kris Ramlan, Ana Ludovico
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Masters of Dark Arts—Ibn ʿArabī’s Records on African Sorcery, Qaḍīb al-Bān and the Power Known as Himma

Religions
In 1195 AD, a celebrated Sufi scholar, poet and philosopher Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī quit Muslim Spain for Africa. There, he first became acquainted with ʿuzābīyyah, which he described as the dark arts rooted in the soul’s power over mind and matter. Ibn
Dunja Rašić
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Ibn ʿArabī’s Idea of Retreat: Transformation of a Sufi Concept into a Metaphysical Premise

Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
This study examines how khalwa (retreat), a traditional Sufi practice, is paradoxically transformed into a rejection of khalwa in the thought of Ibn ʿArabī.
Sultan Adanır Salihoğlu
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Munājāt and Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Unity of Being

Religions, 2023
This paper looks at the mystical topic of munājāt, or intimate dialogue, typically between a worshipper and their Lord, and how it relates to Ibn al-‘Arabī’s waḥdat al-wujūd (Unity of Being).
Amanda Tapp
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