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The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-’Arabi’s Cosmology

By William C. Chittick

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0791434036, 9780791434031, 0791434044, 9780791434048
LCC
BP189.26.I2623 C47 1998
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6808817 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Islam
Pages
495\495
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author’s investigations of the world view of Ibn al-’Arabi, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the "seal of the Muhammadan saints. The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-’Arabi’s interpreters. Like Chittick’s earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-’Arabi’s monumental work, al-Futuhat al-makkiyya "The Meccan Openings. More than one hundred chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indexes of sources, Koranic verses, and hadiths. The book’s index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular.

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