LEADER 03033nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910790199703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0193-1 010 $a0-8078-6986-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000159499 035 $a(EBL)875592 035 $a(OCoLC)781938178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612963 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612963 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10572522 035 $a(PQKB)10920791 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245924 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23522 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL875592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539318 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC875592 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000159499 100 $a20110719d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSufi narratives of intimacy$b[electronic resource] $eIbn 'Arabi?, gender, and sexuality /$fSa'diyya Shaikh 210 $aChapel Hill, N.C. $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 225 1 $aIslamic civilization and Muslim networks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1890-7 311 $a0-8078-3533-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabi? -- 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabi?'s religious anthropology -- 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabi?'s cosmos -- 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- 7. Ibn 'Arabi? and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Di?wa?n Ibn 'Arabi? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi metaphysics and theology might allow for fundamental shifts in Islamic gender ethics and legal formulations, addressing wide-ranging contemporary chal 410 0$aIslamic civilization & Muslim networks. 606 $aAnthropology of religion$zIslamic Empire 606 $aWomen in Islam 615 0$aAnthropology of religion 615 0$aWomen in Islam. 676 $a297.4092 700 $aShaikh$b Sa'diyya$01570032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790199703321 996 $aSufi narratives of intimacy$93843391 997 $aUNINA