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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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Asceticism as Renouncing and Embracing the World in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Radical Metaphysics

Religions, 2023
Asceticism or renunciation (zuhd) is generally viewed as turning away from the world and all it has to offer in order to connect to the divine. The well-known mystical theorist, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d.
Ismail Lala
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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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Ranking of Divine Names in Ibn al-Arabī and Muhyī-yi Gulshenī’s Two Treatises on the Subject

Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023
Ibn al-‘Arabī discusses the relationship between divine names among themselves and the one with the universe by describing them as “the dialogue of divine names” in his works such as “Inshā’ al-Dawā’ir, ‘Anqā’ Mughrib and al-Futūḥāt.” According to that ...
Özkan Öztürk
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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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PEMIKIRAN TEOLOGI SUFISTIK SYAIKH AL-AKBAR IBN ‘ARABÎ

Ulumuna, 2010
In any discourse of religion, the existence of God is central because God is the ultimate Being, from whom all creatures come to exist. However, religious perceptions of God have never been unified.
Mutawalli Mutawalli
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The Development of Saint- Ship (Valayat)Thought in Islamic Mysticism [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی, 2009
The noble principle of ‘saint-ship’ is one of the main axes of Islamic Sufism and Gnosticism. The need of wayfarer to the help and guidance of a perfect master (shaykh) and saint in the complex mystical journey has constantly been emphasized in educative
Homaira Zomorrodi, Zahra Nazari
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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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‘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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“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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