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Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2019
Abstract Chapter 4 considers the diverse sources that informed the Brotherhood and its affiliates’ activist theology. It focuses on their interest in the work of the American self-help pioneer Dale Carnegie. It centers on al-Ghazali’s 1956 commentary on Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), a book that drew ...
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Abstract Chapter 4 considers the diverse sources that informed the Brotherhood and its affiliates’ activist theology. It focuses on their interest in the work of the American self-help pioneer Dale Carnegie. It centers on al-Ghazali’s 1956 commentary on Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), a book that drew ...
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THE IDEA OF “DIVINE LOVE” IN THE SUFI TRADITION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL ASPECTS
HUMANITIES STUDIESThe article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of divine love in the Sufi tradition through the lens of socio- philosophical discourse. The focus is placed on understanding love not only as a mystical experience but also as a universal principle that shapes social relations, moral norms, and anthropological ideals.
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Entropy as Metaphysical Perplexity in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Sufi Thought
Method & Theory in the Study of ReligionAbstract This article investigates how the Sufi theorist Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī’s (d. 638/1240) conception of metaphysical perplexity ( ḥayra ) relates to the entropic brain hypothesis, which has been proposed by Robin Carhart-Harris in the fields of human neuroscience and ...
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The Sufi Doctrine of Man: Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's Metaphysical Anthropology
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2015Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī is a key Sufi master who made an extensive contribution to the tradition of commentary on Ibn ʿArabī’s teachings.
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The Sufi Doctrine of Man: Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s Metaphysical Anthropology, by Richard Todd
Ilahiyat Studies, 2016First Paragraph: Richard Todd’s recent work should be welcomed as a very useful short and accessible introduction to the work of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, who, as Todd describes, was an important figure in Turkish Islamic history as a main expositor and disseminator of the teachings of and the foremost disciple of the great Andalusī mystic, Muḥyī al-Dīn ...
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Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2016
ABSTRACTThis article compares and contrasts Ibn ʿArabī’s and Rūmī’s accounts of evil. Ibn ʿArabī explains the existence of evil as a consequence of both metaphysical necessity and God’s volitional act. Evil is the inevitable ‘shadow’ of existence implied by the Infinity of God, and God’s mercy existentiates the possibilities ‘hidden’ in the Infinite ...
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ABSTRACTThis article compares and contrasts Ibn ʿArabī’s and Rūmī’s accounts of evil. Ibn ʿArabī explains the existence of evil as a consequence of both metaphysical necessity and God’s volitional act. Evil is the inevitable ‘shadow’ of existence implied by the Infinity of God, and God’s mercy existentiates the possibilities ‘hidden’ in the Infinite ...
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Whitehead and Ibn Arabi (1165-1240): Thoughts on Process and Sufi Metaphysics
Process Studies, 2015Abstract This study aims to critically compare and contrast the views of Ibn Arabi and Whitehead on God, the world, and the relationship between the two. I argue that there are significant overlaps in their systems that are sufficient to start a scholarly and enriching dialogue between the two thinkers. Both seem to envisage the world as
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination
Philosophy East and West, 1991Marietta Stepaniants +1 more
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