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

• Autore: Shaikh Sa'diyya
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.4092
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology of religion - Islamic Empire; Women in Islam
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Sufi narratives of intimacy
• ISBN: 1-4696-0193-1; 0-8078-6986-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461729403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.