Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi / Gregory A. Lipton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipton, Gregory A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Arab.

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged))

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

For over a century, Euro-American scholars and esotericists alike have heralded the thirteenth-century Spanish mystic Ibn ʻArabi (d. 1240) as the premodern Sufi theorist of inclusive religious universalism who claimed all contemporaneous religions as equally valid beyond the religio-political divide of medieval exclusivism. 'Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi' calls into question this Western image of Ibn 'Arabi and throws into relief how his discourse is inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu - that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previously revealed religions.

Contents:

Introduction: Ibn ʻArabi and the cartography of universalism

Tracking the camels of love

Return of the Solar King

Competing fields of universal validity

Ibn ʻArabi and the metaphysics of race

Conclusion: Mapping Ibn ʻArabi at zero degrees.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-19-068452-6

0-19-068453-4

0-19-068451-8