Rethinking Ibn 'ArabiOxford University Press, 2018 M04 2 - 304 páginas The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn `Arabi, Gregory Lipton calls this image into question and throws into relief how Ibn `Arabi's 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intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu--that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn `Arabi's absolutist conception with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism. The contours that surface through this comparative analysis trace the discursive practices that inform Ibn `Arabi's Western reception back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of "authentic" religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded against the Semitic Other-both Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that supersessionist models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that ironically mirror Ibn `Arabi's medieval absolutism. |
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Tracking the Camels of Love | |
Return of the Solar King | |
Competing Fields of Universal Validity | |
Ibn Arabi and the Metaphysics of Race | |
Mapping Ibn Arabi at Zero Degrees | |
Términos y frases comunes
abrogation absolute according to Ibn Addas al-Futuhāt Arabic argue Aryan asserts belief Cambridge Castes and Races celebrated verses chapter Chittick Christian claims conception cosmology dīn discussion divine doctrine emphasis original esoteric esotericism essence faith Frithjof Schuon Fusūs gnosis God’s hadith historical human Ibid Ibn al-‘Arabi Ibn al-ʿArabī Ibn Arabi Ibn Arabi’s discourse Ibn Hazm Ibn ʿArabī idea indemnity tax Islam Izutsu Jews Judaism Kant Kant’s Kantian knowledge manifestation Mark Perry Meccan Openings metaphysical Michel Chodkiewicz modern Muhammad Muhammadan Muslim mysticism naskh Nicholson notes notion particular passage path Perennial Philosophy Perennialist perspective political primordial prophets pure quoted Qur’an reality refers religio perennis religion of love religious form René Guénon revealed law Reza Shah-Kazemi Ring Stones Schleiermacher scholars Schuonian Perennialism Semitic Seyyed Hossein Nasr sharia spiritual Stones of Wisdom Sufi Sufism supersessionism taḥrīf theology tradition trans transcendent unity translation truth unity of religions universalist World Wisdom worship