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Al‐Madina Document in Contemporary Arab‐Muslim and Western Scholarship: Surveying and Assessing some Intellectual Orientations and Reading Strategies1

The Muslim World, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, Page 49-66, Winter-Spring 2024.
Abstract This short essay attempts at displaying briefly some examples of scholarly and intellectual interests in al‐Madina Document, which one can find in Arab and Western literature today. It endeavors to highlight the primary, focal conceptual orientations and the contextual concerns and motifs that make the Arab and the Western intellectual scenes ...
Najib George Awad
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.
Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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HELL IN IBN ʿARABĪ ACCORDING TO AL-SHAʿRĀNĪ

, 2023
Ibn ʿArabī and his teachings were enormously influential and controversial in post-classical Islamic thought and Sufism. Attitudes towards his ideas ranged from sympathy and admiration to outrage and denunciation as disbelief.
Muthalib, Abdul
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The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan

American Journal of Islam and Society
The publication of The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan marks a noteworthy addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic metaphysics, Qurʾanic hermeneutics, and Sufi theology.
Wissam Nuwayhid
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The Components of femininity and Ibn Arabi [PDF]

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What is the nature of woman in relation to man? In elucidating Ibn ʿArabī’s response to this question, it is necessary to approach the discussion of the ontological, epistemological, and pragmatic dimensions of woman in contrast to man within a ...
seyyed ali alamolhoda, akram askarzadeh mazraeh   +1 more
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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Correction: Kars, Aydogan, and Ashkan Bahrani. 2022. Knowledge and Causality in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Book of Giving, and the Buddhist Notion of Dependent Origination. Religions 13: 768

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At the beginning of our article (Kars and Bahrani 2022), we mentioned that the Book of Giving [Kitāb al-Ifāda] “appears in the List of Writings [Fihris al-Muʾallafāt] compiled by Ibn al-ʿArabī [...]
Aydogan Kars, Ashkan Bahrani
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‘Our therapeutic direction is towards Light’: transcendence and a non‐secular politics of difference in Islamic Counselling training

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 417-435, June 2024.
Abstract The Islamic Counselling training model discussed in this article first emerged in 1990s multicultural Britain within the newly expanding field of cross‐cultural counselling and psychotherapy. It is informed by classical Sufi notions of the self, the development of an Islamic psychology, and decolonial scholarship.
Sabnum Dharamsi, Giulia Liberatore
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The Mystics of Andalusia

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017
The Mystics of al-Andalus by Yousef Casewit, assistant professor of Qur’anic studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, tells the story of an overlooked mystical school of Andalusia, the Muʿtabirun (lit.
Jawad Anwar Qureshi
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“Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 2, Page 194-203, June 2024.
Abstract “Our blood is becoming white.” This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India—third‐ and fourth‐generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form the African Cavalry Guard in his army.
Gayatri Reddy
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