03033nam 2200613Ia 450 991079019970332120200520144314.01-4696-0193-10-8078-6986-4(CKB)2670000000159499(EBL)875592(OCoLC)781938178(SSID)ssj0000612963(PQKBManifestationID)11381524(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612963(PQKBWorkID)10572522(PQKB)10920791(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245924(MdBmJHUP)muse23522(Au-PeEL)EBL875592(CaPaEBR)ebr10539318(CaONFJC)MIL930138(MiAaPQ)EBC875592(EXLCZ)99267000000015949920110719d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSufi narratives of intimacy[electronic resource] Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /Sa'diyya ShaikhChapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Pressc20121 online resource (302 p.)Islamic civilization and Muslim networksDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1890-7 0-8078-3533-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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 chalIslamic civilization & Muslim networks.Anthropology of religionIslamic EmpireWomen in IslamAnthropology of religionWomen in Islam.297.4092Shaikh Sa'diyya1570032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790199703321Sufi narratives of intimacy3843391UNINA