The self-disclosure of God : principles of Ibn al-Arabs cosmology

Description: The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author’s investigations of the world view of Ibn al-Arabi, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the “seal of the Muhammadan saints.” The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-Arabi’s interpreters. Like Chittick’s earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-Arabi’s monumental work, al-Futuhat al-makkiyya “The Meccan Openings.” More than one hundred complete chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indices of sources, Koranic verses and hadiths. The book’s index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular. -- from publisher

Table of Contents: Introduction
I. God and the cosmos --
Wujud and the entities
Perpetual self-disclosure
The face of God
Veils of light
II. The order of the worlds --
The roots of order
Divine and cosmic relations
The worlds of cosmos
III. The structure of the microcosm--
Spirits and bodies
The Natural constitution
The imaginal barzakh
Appendix, notes, bibliography, indexes.

Location: COLLECTION: Teachings & Practices -- AREA: Great Traditions -- SECTION: Islam - Sufism / Filing name: Arabi

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