Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses / Abdelwahab Meddeb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meddeb, Abdelwahab, Author.

Contributor:

Nancy, Jean-Luc, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Abdelwahab Meddeb crosses boundaries in unusual and important ways. Born in Tunis, he is now a French national. In his academic and literary work, he is concerned with the roots and history of Islam and with crossings, like his own, between Islam and Europe. He is an author of extraordinarily beautiful French; this is the first book to represent this lyrical aspect of his work in English translation. White Traverses is a poetic memoir about growing up in Tunisia and the contrasts between Islamic and European influences. In it, the intense colors and blinding whites of the Maghreb interweave with the rich traditions of French poetic discourse. In Africa as in Europe, white designates purity. Yet the complex Mediterranean streams of culture that flow together in Tunis problematize this myth. Meddeb captures their white refractions in vignettes that teach us the truth of the coincidence of contraries, of how the impure lodges in the pure. Tombeau of Ibn Arabi is a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture, and from Dante, who learned from Ibn Arabi a poetry of sensual love as initiation into spiritual experience. It seeks to show how a text written in the present day can maintain a link with the great dead . Ibn Arabi and Dante are two symbolic figures confirming the author's twofold spiritual genealogy--Arabic and European.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I essence, existence, and the nature of metaphysics

1 Duns Scotus on Metaphysics as the Science of First Entity

2 Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence

Part II form and matter

3 The Form of Corporeity and Potential and Aptitudinal Being in Dietrich von Freiberg’s Defense of the Doctrine of the Unity of Substantial Form

4 Accidents in Scotus’s Metaphysics Commentary

Part III universals

5 Avicenna Latinus on the Ontology of Types and Tokens

6 Universal Thinking as Pro cess: The Metaphysics of Change and Identity in John Buridan’s Intellectio Theory

Part IV language, logic, and metaphysics

7 Can God Know More? A Case Study in Later Medieval Discussions of Propositions

8 The Power of Medieval Logic

9 Iteration and Infinite Regress in Walter Chatton’s Metaphysics

10 Analogy and Meta phor from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Walter Burley

Notes

List Frontmatter

Preface

Tombeau of Ibn Arabi

White Traverses

Afterword

Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

9780823293414

0823293416

OCLC:

1091758874