The Divine Names : A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur?an / Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī ; edited and translated by Yousef Casewit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tilimsānī, ʻAfīf al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn ʻAlī, -1291, author.

Contributor:

Casewit, Yousef, editor.

Series:

Library of Arabic literature.

Library of Arabic Literature Series

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

God (Islam)--Name.

God (Islam).

Muslims--Prayers and devotions.

Muslims.

Genre:

Prayers and devotions.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (605 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English and Arabic.

Summary:

"The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʼan, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine name, al-Tilimsānī synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn Barrajān. Al-Tilimsānī famously described his two teachers Ibn al-ʿArabī and al-Qūnawī as a "philosophizing mystic" and a "mysticizing philosopher," respectively. Picking up their mantle, al-Tilimsānī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbari Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn al-ʿArabī, his overarching concern is not to examine the names as correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence. The Divine Names shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

Letter from the General Editor

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Map: al-Andalus, the Maghrib, and the Near East in al-Tilimsānīʼs Day

Note on the Text

Notes to the Introduction

The Divine Names

The Opening Surah

Allāh

Al-Raḥmān: The All-Merciful

Al-Rabb: The Lord

Al-Raḥīm: The Ever-Merciful

Al-Malik: The King

The Surah of the Cow

Al-Muḥīṭ: The Encompassing

Al-Qadīr: The Powerful

Al-ʿAlīm: The Knowing

Al-Ḥakīm: The Wise

Al-Tawwāb: The Ever-Turning

Al-Mufḍil: The One Who Favors

Al-Baṣīr: The Seeing

Dhū l-Faḍl: The Bountiful

Al-Walī: The Guardian

Al-Naṣīr: The Helper

Al-Wāsiʿ: The All-Embracing

Al-Badīʿ: The Innovative

Al-Mubtalī: The Tester

Al-Samīʿ: The Hearing

Al-ʿAzīz: The Mighty

Al-Kāfī: The Sufficer

Al-Raʼūf: The Kind

Al-Ilāh al-Wāḥid: The One God

Al-Shadīd al-ʿAdhāb: The Severe in Chastisement

Al-Ghafūr: The Concealing

Al-Qarīb: The Near

Al-Mujīb: The Responder

Al-Sarīʿ al-Ḥisāb: The Swift in Reckoning

Al-Ḥalīm: The Forbearing

Al-Khabīr: The Aware

Al-Qābiḍ: The Withholder

Al-Bāsiṭ: The Lavisher

Al-Ḥayy: The Living

Al-Qayyūm: The Self-Subsisting

Al-ʿAlī: The High

Al-ʿAẓīm: The Magnificent

Al-Ghanī: The Independent

Al-Ḥamīd: The Praiseworthy

The Surah of the House of ʿImrān

Al-Muntaqim: The Avenger

Al-Wahhāb: The Bestower

Al-Jāmiʿ: The Gatherer

Al-Muqsiṭ: The Equitable

Mālik al-Mulk: The Owner of the Kingdom

Al-Muʿizz: The Exalter

Al-Mudhill: The Abaser

Al-Ḥakam: The Ruler

Al-Nāṣir: The Assister

Al-Muḥyī: The Life-Giver

Al-Mumīt: The Death-Giver

Al-Wakīl: The Trustee

The Surah of Women

Al-Raqīb: The Watchful

Al-Ḥasīb: The Reckoner

Al-Shahīd: The Witness

Al-Mursil: The Sender

Al-Muqīt: The Nourisher

Al-Ṣādiq: The Truthful

Al-Shākir: The Grateful

Al-ʿAfū: The Forgiver

The Surah of the Cattle

Al-Fāṭir: The Cleaver

Al-Qāhir: The Triumphant

Al-Qādir: The Able

Al-Qāḍī: The Judge

Al-Fāliq: The Splitter

Al-Laṭīf: The Subtle

The Surah of the Heights

Al-Bādiʼ: The One Who Originates

Al-Hādī: The Guide

Al-Muḍill: The Misguider

The Surah of the Spoils

Al-Mughīth: The Deliverer

The Surah of Jonah

Al-Ḍārr: The Harmer

Al-Nāfiʿ: The Benefiter

The Surah of Hūd

Al-Qawī: The Strong

Al-Ḥafīẓ: The Preserving

Al-Majīd: The Glorious

Al-Wadūd: The Loving

Al-Alīm al-Akhdh: The Painful in Retribution

Al-Faʿʿāl: The Fully Active

The Surah of Joseph

Al-Ḥāfiẓ: The Preserver

Al-Rāfiʿ: The One Who Elevates

The Surah of the Thunder

Al-Mudabbir: The Governing

Al-Qahhār: The All-Subjugating

Al-Kabīr: The Great

Al-Mutaʿālī: The Transcendent

Al-Wāqī: The Protector

The Surah of Abraham

Al-Mannān: The Gracious

The Surah of the Bee

Al-Kafīl: The Guarantor

The Surah of the Night Journey

Al-Mukarrim: The Ennobler

The Surah of the Cave

Al-Muqtadir: The Potent

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

The Surah of Mary

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4798-2614-6

OCLC:

1410600138