Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabi, gender, and sexuality / Sa'diyya Shaikh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaikh, Sa'diyya.

Series:

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240--Criticism and interpretation.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Anthropology of religion--Islamic Empire.

Anthropology of religion.

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi metaphysics and theology might allow for fundamental shifts in Islamic gender ethics and legal formulations, addressing wide-ranging contemporary chal

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries

1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī

2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology

3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience

4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos

5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve

6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation

7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism

Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

979-88-9313-238-0

979-88-908807-8-9

1-4696-0193-1

0-8078-6986-4

OCLC:

781938178