The Essence of Reality : A Defense of Philosophical Sufism /

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A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticismThe Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author ' Ayn al-Quḍat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1131 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rustom, Mohammed (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sufism.
God (Islam)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Middle Eastern.
Soufisme > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Dieu (Islam) > Ouvrages avant 1800.
God (Islam) > Early works to 1800.
Sufism > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • The Essence of Reality
  • Preamble
  • Introduction: The Reason for Writing This Book
  • Chapter 1: Who Will Benefit from This Book?
  • Chapter 2: A Proof of the Eternal
  • Chapter 3: God's Transcendence
  • Chapter 4: Categories of Existence
  • Chapter 5: Divine Names
  • Chapter 6: Divine Attributes
  • Chapter 7: The Divine Names Are Relations
  • Chapter 8: Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility
  • Chapter 9: Why Did God Effectuate Existence?
  • Chapter 10: The Face of God and Existents
  • Chapter 11: God's Infinite Knowledge
  • Chapter 12: Knowledge Is a Divine Attribute
  • Chapter 13: God's Knowledge Is Changeless
  • Chapter 14: A Glimpse at the Stage beyond the Intellect
  • Chapter 15: The Inability to Comprehend God's Knowledge
  • Chapter 16: True Faith
  • Chapter 17: The Intellect's Proper Place
  • Chapter 18: The Stage beyond the Intellect and Premises
  • Chapter 19: The Inner Eye
  • Chapter 20: Longing for God
  • Chapter 21: Familiarity with the Spiritual World
  • Chapter 22: The Stage of Prophecy
  • Chapter 23: Faith in the Unseen
  • Chapter 24: The Path to Faith in Prophecy
  • Chapter 25: The Stage beyond the Intellect and the Divine Attributes
  • Chapter 26: The Intellect's Relationship to Love
  • Chapter 27: The Lover's Attraction to the Beloved
  • Chapter 28: The Last Stage of the Intellect
  • Chapter 29: "The Incapacity to Perceive Is Perception"
  • Chapter 30: A Transition
  • Chapter 31: God's Essence and Attributes
  • Chapter 32: The Divine Essence and Its Standpoints
  • Chapter 33: The Way of the Righteous Predecessors
  • Chapter 34: Scriptural Evidence
  • Chapter 35: The Divine Attributes Are Relations
  • Chapter 36: Nonduality
  • Chapter 37: A Note on the Eternity of the World
  • Chapter 38: Divine Causation
  • Chapter 39: The True Nature of Causation
  • Chapter 40: An Example Using Natural Phenomena
  • Chapter 41: The Oneness of Existence and Causation
  • Chapter 42: An Example Using Mirrors
  • Chapter 43: The Mirror of the Intellect
  • Chapter 44: The Forms in Mirrors Are Relations
  • Chapter 45: A Note on the Limits of the Intellect
  • Chapter 46: Mirrors and the State of Dreaming
  • Chapter 47: Divine Power and Human Power
  • Chapter 48: The Possible and the Impossible
  • Chapter 49: Possibility Means Contingency
  • Chapter 50: The Creation of the World and Time
  • Chapter 51: Clarifications on the Term "World"
  • Chapter 52: The Eternity of the World in the Eyes of the Recognizer
  • Chapter 53: Do "Was" and "Is" Apply to God?
  • Chapter 54: God's Beginninglessness and Time
  • Chapter 55: A Hint at Perpetual Renewal
  • Chapter 56: Perpetual Renewal
  • Chapter 57: Divine Withness
  • Chapter 58: A Note on Cosmic Order
  • Chapter 59: Witnessing Perpetual Renewal
  • Chapter 60: God's Coextensiveness in the Eyes of the Recognizer.

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