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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 metaphysics of the heart in the Sufi doctrine of Rumi
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2008In the Masnavi-yi Ma'navi (The Couplets of Esoteric Meaning) written by the famous Muslim mystical poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273 C.E.), countless metaphysical teachings are interwoven into the fabric of the text. It is, as one author has called it, "an ocean of gnosis" (Nasr 1993: 183).
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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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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, 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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New Theatre Quarterly, 2020
This article examines the relationship between medieval Islamic philosophy and contemporary Tunisian Sufi ritual. Focusing on the metaphysics of time and space in the writings of the twelfth-century Andalusian saint Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, the author explores the dhikr ritual within the framework of Sufi ontology in order to highlight the relevance of ...
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This article examines the relationship between medieval Islamic philosophy and contemporary Tunisian Sufi ritual. Focusing on the metaphysics of time and space in the writings of the twelfth-century Andalusian saint Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, the author explores the dhikr ritual within the framework of Sufi ontology in order to highlight the relevance of ...
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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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Mollā Fenārī (d. 834/1431) and the Sufi Metaphysics of Absolute Being
This dissertation presents a comprehensive intellectual biography of Mollā Fenārī (d. 834/1431), one of the most influential scholars of late medieval Anatolia, and an in-depth examination of his distinctive Sufi metaphysics, particularly his conceptualization of God (al-ḥaqq, “the Real”) as absolute being (al-wujūd al-muṭlaq).openaire +1 more source
The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-'Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1991James Winston Morris +2 more
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