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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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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 580-595, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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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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ChemistrySelect, Volume 11, Issue 1, 8 January 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the biological properties of methanolic and petroleum ether (PE) extracts from the roots and flowers of Thapsia garganica L., providing new insights into its potential medicinal uses. Although T. garganica has a long history in traditional medicine, the anticholinesterase and tyrosinase‐inhibiting activities of this ...
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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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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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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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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 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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