Author: John WalbridgePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Provides an account of Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi’s revival of Neoplatonism.
The Leaven of the Ancients
Author: John WalbridgePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Provides an account of Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi’s revival of Neoplatonism.
The Leaven of the Ancients
Author: John WalbridgePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443606
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Provides an account of Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi’s revival of Neoplatonism.
The Texture of the Divine
Author: Aaron W. HughesPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253110874
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.
The Ancient Novel and Beyond
Author: Stelios PanayotakisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047402111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This collection of wide-ranging essays offers a fascinating overview of current scholarly approaches to the ancient novel and related texts. These are discussed in their literary, cultural and social context, and as sources of inspiration for Byzantine and modern fiction.
Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture
Author: Caner K DagliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317673905
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Ibn al-'Arabī (d. 1240) was one of the towering figures of Islamic intellectual history, and among Sufis still bears the title of al-shaykh al-akbar, or "the greatest master." Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture traces the history of the concept of "oneness of being" (wahdat al-wujūd) in the school of Ibn al- 'Arabī, in order to explore the relationship between mysticism and philosophy in Islamic intellectual life. It examines how the conceptual language used by early mystical writers became increasingly engaged over time with the broader Islamic intellectual culture, eventually becoming integrated with the latter’s common philosophical and theological vocabulary. It focuses on four successive generations of thinkers (Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Mu'ayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī, 'Abd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī, and Dāwūd al-Qaysarī), and examines how these "philosopher-mystics" refined and developed the ideas of Ibn al-'Arabī. Through a close analysis of texts, the book clearly traces the crystallization of an influential school of thought in Islamic history and its place in the broader intellectual culture. Offering an exploration of the development of Sufi expression and thought, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Islamic thought, philosophy, and mysticism.
The Wisdom of the Mystic East
Author: John WalbridgePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791450512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An expert on the thought of medieval Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi argues that philosophers have romanticized this work as a revival of “oriental” wisdom.
Studies in Ancient Technology
Author: Robert James ForbesPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Via Tuta, the Safe Way. Leading ... to the true, ancient and Catholike faith, now professed in the Church of England. ... Via Devia, the by way misleading the weake and unstable into dangerous paths of error, by colourable shewes of Apocryphall Scriptures ... and pretended Catholike Church
Author: Sir Humphrey LyndePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth
Author: Rkia Elaroui CornellPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786075229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century, but her life remains recorded only in legends, stories, poems and hagiographies. The various depictions of her – as a deeply spiritual ascetic, an existentialist rebel and a romantic lover – seem impossible to reconcile, and yet Rabi‘a has transcended these narratives to become a global symbol of both Sufi and modern secular culture. In this groundbreaking study, Rkia Elaroui Cornell traces the development of these diverse narratives and provides a history of the iconic Rabi‘a’s construction as a Sufi saint. Combining medieval and modern sources, including evidence never before examined, in novel ways, Rabi‘a From Narrative to Myth is the most significant work to emerge on this quintessential figure in Islam for more than seventy years.
The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients
Author: Charles RollinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
