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The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi [PDF]
, 2020 The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328).
Post, Arjan
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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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Hypothetical metaphysics of nature [PDF]
, 2009 The paper first sketches out a reply to the underdetermination challenge and the incommensurability challenge that rebuts the sceptical conclusions of these challenges and that is sufficient to lay the ground for the project of a metaphysics of nature ...
Michael Esfeld, Esfeld, Michael
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The Problem of Periodization in Sufi Studies: The Struggle of Sufism to Become a Discipline Between the Religious Sciences and Metaphysics [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2016 The periodization of sciences is one of the essential devices of treating a field by specification and tracing the transformations in that field. Nonetheless, it would be hard to speak of robust periodization concerning religious sciences of Islam.
Ekrem Demirli
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The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2021 This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present ...
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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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Ontological and gnoseological viewpoints of sufis in the light of metaphysical and theosophical traditions [PDF]
Kom : casopis za religijske nauke, 2014 This paper discusses the sufi concepts which tackle metaphysical and theosophical issues. They imply that a great part of theosophical and metaphysical traditions within Islamic philosophical thought is inspired by original concepts dating from the formative period of sufism. Those concepts were the result of transcribing a mystical experience.
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The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan
American Journal of Islam and SocietyThe 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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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesShamseddīn 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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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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