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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790199703321

Autore

Shaikh Sa'diyya

Titolo

Sufi narratives of intimacy [[electronic resource] ] : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality / / Sa'diyya Shaikh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4696-0193-1

0-8078-6986-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Disciplina

297.4092

Soggetti

Anthropology of religion - Islamic Empire

Women in Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place.  Grounding her work in Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi metaphysics and theology might allow for fundamental shifts in Islamic gender ethics and legal formulations, addressing wide-ranging contemporary chal