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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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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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ReligionsIn 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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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Ibn ʿArabī’s Idea of Retreat: Transformation of a Sufi Concept into a Metaphysical Premise
Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi DergisiThis 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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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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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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Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 9, September 2026.Phenolic profile and bioactivity of Lygeum spartum L. ABSTRACT The phenolic composition of roots and leaves of Lygeum spartum L., a Mediterranean Poaceae species, was analyzed by HPLC–DAD, revealing an organ‐specific distribution of phenolic compounds, with ferulic acid identified as the predominant phenolic compound in the methanolic leaf extract (4 ...
Zohra Arabi +9 more
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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