Ibn al-ʻArabī's Barzakh : the concept of the limit and the relationship between God and the world / Salman H. Bashier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashier, Salman H., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Intermediate state--Islam.

Intermediate state.

Islam.

Creation (Islam).

Physical Description:

xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2004]

Summary:

This book explores how Iban al-'Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term barzakh indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn al-'Arabi's unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn al-'Arabi's development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man, and compares Ibn al-'Arabi's vision with Plato's.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-195) and index.

ISBN:

0791462277

OCLC:

54365860