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From Rabi'a to Ibn al-Farid : towards some paradigms of the Sufi conception of love [PDF]

, 1999
This thesis aims to investigate the significance of Divine Love in the Islamic tradition with reference to Sufis who used the medium of Arabic to communicate their ideas. Divine Love means the mutual love between God and man.
Suleyman, Derin, Derin, S.
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Was That Layla’s Fire?: Metonymy, Metaphor, and Mannerism in the Poetry of Ibn al-Fāriḍ

Open Theology
Regarded 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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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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Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī's Conception of Sufism: Establishing the Stages of Knowledge about Ethics, Practices, and Metaphysics

, 2021
This paper aims to examine the concept of Sufism according to Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī (1280/1863–1362/1943), an Islamic reformist thinker from the 19th to the 20th century in South Asia. As a Deobandī scholar and a Chishtī Sufi , Thānavī left over 600 works,
本間, 流星
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

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
wiley   +1 more source

Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr., Basit Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
wiley   +1 more source