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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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2012]
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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.


