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Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shaikh, Sa'diyya (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Collection:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries
  • 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī
  • 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology
  • 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience
  • 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos
  • 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve
  • 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation
  • 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism
  • Appendix: Selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī.