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200 14$aThe Sufi path of knowledge $eIbn al-Arabi's metaphysics of imagination /$fWilliam C. Chittick
210   $aAlbany, N.Y. $cState University of New York Press$dc1989
215   $a1 online resource (xxii, 478 pages)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [414]-417) and indexes.
327   $a""CONTENTS""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 Overview ""; ""2 Theology ""; ""3 Ontology ""; ""4 Epistemology""; ""5 Hermeneutics ""; ""6 Soteriology ""; ""7 Consummation ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Indexes""
330   $aIbn al-'Arabi is still known as "the Great Sheik" among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization. He was a great philosopher, theologian, and poet.William Chittick takes a major step toward exposing the breadth and depth of Ibn al-'Arabi's vision. The book offers his view of spiritual perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and soteriology. The clear language, unencumbered by methodological jargon, makes it accessible to those familiar with other spiritual traditions, while its scholarly precision will appeal to specialists.Beginning with a survey of Ibn al-'Arabi's major teachings, the book gradually introduces the most important facets of his thought, devoting attention to definitions of his basic terminology. His teachings are illustrated with many translated passages introducing readers to fascinating byways of spiritual life that would not ordinarily be encountered in an account of a thinker's ideas. Ibn al-'Arabi is allowed to describe in detail the visionary world from which his knowledge derives and to express his teachings in his own words.More than 600 passages from his major work, al-Futuhat al-Makkivva, are translated here, practically for the first time. These alone provide twice the text of the Fusus al-hikam. The exhaustive indexes make the work an invaluable reference tool for research in Sufism and Islamic thought in general.
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