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On the Metaphysics of Management [PDF]
, 2006 The question about the metaphysics of management is considered especially from the point of view of the subject, acts and object of management. Management is understood holistically, in connection to production, rather than as an independent domain in ...
Koskela, Lauri, Kagioglou, Mike
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Was That Layla’s Fire?: Metonymy, Metaphor, and Mannerism in the Poetry of Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Open TheologyRegarded as one of the greatest poets of the Arabic language, and the greatest and most influential Arabic Sufi poet, ‘Umar ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Fāriḍ, set the standard for Arabic Sufi poetry after him. Known as the “Sultan of the Lovers” (Sulṭān al-‘Āshiqīn),
Ogunnaike Oludamini
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Dream as a Philosophical Vision: Autobiographical Records of the Crimean Sufi Ibrahim al-Kirimi
SententiaeThis 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, 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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Metaphysics of science between metaphysics and science [PDF]
, 2007 The paper argues that metaphysics depends upon science when it comes to claims about the constitution of the real world. That thesis is illustrated by considering the examples of global supervenience, the tenseless vs.
Esfeld, Michael
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Performances of the Sufi Ascent in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysics, Tunisian Ḥaḍra and DhikrRituals, and Three Sufi Plays: Journeys in God’s Vast Earth [PDF]
, 2021 The story of the Night Journey describes the Prophet Muhammad’s miraculous ascent to the heavens. In several Sufi communities, the ascent has become part of the Sufi path, symbolizing the different spiritual stations adepts encounter in their journey to God.
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life
American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 268-282, August 2026.Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
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From Cinema to Sufism: The Artistic and Mystical Life of Turkish Screenwriter Ayşe Şasa (1941–2014)
ReligionsThis article examines the contributions of Turkish screenwriter Ayşe Şasa (1941–2014) to Turkish cinema and visual culture through her engagement with Sufism and metaphysical themes.
Büşra Çakmaktaş
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Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Ibn ‘Arabi and the Contemporary West
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2014 Although the thought of the Andalusian Sufi Muhyi al-Din ibn ‘Arabi (d. 1240) has become increasingly popular in the West during the last century, only very recently has there been any attempt to analyze his contemporary reception.
G. A. Lipton
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