The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of ImaginationSUNY Press, 1 Jun 1989 - 478 halaman Ibn al-'Arabi is still known as "the Great Sheik" among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization. He was a great philosopher, theologian, and poet. William Chittick takes a major step toward exposing the breadth and depth of Ibn al-'Arabi's vision. The book offers his view of spiritual perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and soteriology. The clear language, unencumbered by methodological jargon, makes it accessible to those familiar with other spiritual traditions, while its scholarly precision will appeal to specialists. Beginning with a survey of Ibn al-'Arabi's major teachings, the book gradually introduces the most important facets of his thought, devoting attention to definitions of his basic terminology. His teachings are illustrated with many translated passages introducing readers to fascinating byways of spiritual life that would not ordinarily be encountered in an account of a thinker's ideas. Ibn al-'Arabi is allowed to describe in detail the visionary world from which his knowledge derives and to express his teachings in his own words. More than 600 passages from his major work, al-Futuhat al-Makkivva, are translated here, practically for the first time. These alone provide twice the text of the Fusus al-hikam. The exhaustive indexes make the work an invaluable reference tool for research in Sufism and Islamic thought in general. |
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1 The Divine Presence | 3 |
Worlds and Presences | 4 |
Being and Nonexistence | 6 |
The Divine Attributes | 8 |
The Divine Acts | 11 |
The Macrocosm | 12 |
The Microcosm | 16 |
Cosmic Dynamics | 18 |
Following Authority | 166 |
Unveiling | 168 |
11 The Scale of the Law | 170 |
The Scale | 172 |
Wisdom and Courtesy | 174 |
The Scale of Reason | 179 |
Affirming Similarity | 181 |
Reactions to the Revelation of Similarity | 186 |
The Return to God | 19 |
Assuming the Traits of God | 21 |
Theomorphic Ethics | 22 |
The Scale of the Law | 26 |
Seeing Things as They Are | 28 |
Human Perfection | 30 |
Theology | 31 |
2 The Names of God | 33 |
The Names of the Names | 34 |
Relationships | 35 |
Properties and Effects | 39 |
The Names of Engendered Existence | 41 |
Secondary Causes | 44 |
3 The Divine Roots of Heirarchy and Conflict | 47 |
Ranking in Degrees | 51 |
The Names Personified | 52 |
The Divine Conflict | 54 |
The Unity of the Essence | 56 |
Names of Incomparability and Names of Acts | 58 |
4 The Essence and the Divinity | 59 |
The Unknowability of the Essence | 62 |
The Independence of the Essence | 64 |
The Name Allah | 66 |
The Disputes of the Angels | 67 |
Incomparability and Similarity | 68 |
Incomparability | 70 |
Similarity | 72 |
Combining Incompatibility and Similarity | 73 |
Ontology | 77 |
5 Existence and Nonexistence | 79 |
Wujud and Mawjūd | 80 |
Possible Things | 81 |
Entities | 83 |
Things | 88 |
Loci of Manifestation | 89 |
SelfDisclosure and Receptivity | 91 |
Oneness of Being and Effects of the Names | 94 |
6 The New Creation | 96 |
Perpetual Renewal | 97 |
Divine Tasks | 98 |
Breaking Habits | 99 |
NeverRepeating SelfDisclosures | 103 |
Boredom | 105 |
The Heart | 106 |
Nondelimitation | 109 |
7 Cosmic Imagination | 112 |
HeNot He | 113 |
Imagination | 115 |
Dreams | 118 |
The Manifestation of the Impossible | 121 |
8 The Supreme Barzakh | 125 |
The Breath of the Allmerciful | 127 |
Relief Through Mercy | 130 |
The Real Through Whom Creation Takes Place | 132 |
The Universal Reality | 134 |
Nature | 139 |
Epistemology | 145 |
9 Knowledge nd the Knower | 147 |
The Usefulness of Knowledoe | 149 |
Limits to Knowledge | 153 |
The Infinity of Knowledge | 156 |
10 Acquiring Knowledge | 159 |
Reflection | 162 |
Consideration | 165 |
Hermeneutics | 191 |
12 Faith and Rational Interpretation | 193 |
Interpretation | 199 |
The Rational Thinkers | 202 |
Acts of God and Acts of Man | 205 |
13 Knowing Gods SelfDisclosure | 212 |
The Lights of SelfDisclosure | 216 |
Naming the Perception of Light | 220 |
Witnessing and Vision | 225 |
Perceiving the Veil | 229 |
14 UNDERSTANDING THE KORAN | 231 |
The Goal of Rational Inquiry | 232 |
Reason versus Unveiling | 235 |
The Character of Muhammad | 239 |
The Context of the Koran | 242 |
The Commentary of the Folk of Allah | 244 |
Commentary by Allusion | 246 |
Knowledoe of Hadith | 250 |
Soteriology | 253 |
15 Weighing SelfDiclosure | 255 |
Knowledge and Practice | 256 |
The Inviolability of the Law | 258 |
Spiritual States | 263 |
Spiritual Mastery | 270 |
16 Names and Stations | 274 |
The Divine Form | 275 |
The Stations of the Path | 278 |
Assuming the Character Traits of Cod | 283 |
Noble and Base Character Traits | 286 |
17 Pitfalls of the Path | 289 |
Good and Evil | 290 |
The Two Commands | 291 |
The Perfection of Imperfection | 294 |
Gods Conclusive Argument | 297 |
The Straight Path | 301 |
Nobility of Character | 304 |
18 Safety in Servanthood | 309 |
The Servants Worship of his Lord | 310 |
The Perils of Lordship | 312 |
The Exaltation of Lowliness | 317 |
The Perfect Servant | 321 |
Worship Through Free Will Offerings | 325 |
Obligations and Supererogations | 329 |
Consummation | 333 |
19 Transcending the Gods of Belief | 335 |
The Roots of Belief | 336 |
Worshiping God and Self | 341 |
Knowing Self | 344 |
Paths of Belief | 346 |
Belief and the Law | 349 |
The Belief of the Gnostic | 352 |
Beatific Vision | 354 |
2 0 Seeing with Two Eyes | 356 |
Duality and the Signs of Unity | 358 |
The Possessor of Two Eyes | 361 |
Being With Cod Wherever You Are | 364 |
Two Perfections | 366 |
Serving the Divine Names | 369 |
The People of Blame | 372 |
The Station of No Station | 375 |
Notes | 382 |
Bibliography | 414 |
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