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GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART

German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 410-430, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Navid Kermani's and Feridun Zaimoglu's engagements as Muslims with Christian art reveal the possibilities and limitations of aesthetic experiences of the divine beyond all doctrinal divides. Although Kermani's own research into the aesthetic dimension of Islam highlights the potential for art to offer spiritual insight, his rejection of some ...
Joseph Twist
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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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Islamic Traditionalists: “Against the Modern World”?

, 2023
The Muslim World, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 333-354, Summer 2023.
Jacob Williams
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination, by William C. Chittick

, 2019
William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination, State University of New York Press, 1989. "For the first time in the history of Orientalism, a thorough study of Ibn al-'Arabi's thought is now available. William
RB
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The Destiny of Phenomenology: Gadamer on Value, Globalism, and the Growth of Being

, 2023
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 215-226, March 2023.
Jessica Frazier
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Philosophizing Tasawwuf: The Postmodern Cult of Sufism

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2011
The paper is a critical study of some relatively recent Western approaches to tasawwuf. These so-called post structuralist approaches, the deconstructionist being chief among them, seem to extend the earlier orientalist attempts, as that of Henry Corbin,
Dr. Iftikhar Shafi
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The debate between reed (nay) and the fire: Sufi metaphor and mystical language in Majzūb-e Tabrizī’s Mathnawī

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Shamseddīn Muhammad b. Muhammad Reza, a scholar and poet of the second half of the 17th century, lived during the reign of the Safavid dynasty. Biographical details regarding the poet are scarce; however, his verses strongly indicate his origins in ...
Şeyda Arısoy
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Dream as a Philosophical Vision: Autobiographical Records of the Crimean Sufi Ibrahim al-Kirimi

Sententiae
This article examines dreams as a form of mystical and philosophical self-reflection in the works of the sixteenth-century Crimean Sufi Ibrahim al-Kirimi (c. 1520–1593).
Mykhaylo Yakubovych, Ahmad Elsharkawi
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
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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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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