The self-disclosure of God : principles of Ibn al-ʻArabī's cosmology

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The self-disclosure of God : principles of Ibn al-ʻArabī's cosmology

Title remainder

principles of Ibn al-ʻArabī's cosmology

Statement of responsibility

William C. Chittick

Creator

• Chittick, William C

Subject

• Electronic books
• Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah (Ibn al-ʻArabī)
• God
• God (Islam)
• God (Islam) -- Early works to 1800
• Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
• Ibn-al-Arabi, Muhji-ad-Din
• Ibn-al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
• Islam -- Doctrines
• Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
• Islamic cosmology
• Islamic cosmology -- Early works to 1800
• Kosmologie
• Kosmologie
• RELIGION -- Islam | Sufi
• Soefisme
• Sufism
• Sufism -- Early works to 1800
• Early works

Genre

• Early works to 1800
• Electronic books
• Early works

Language

eng

Summary

The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author's investigations of the world view of Ibn al-'Arabi, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the "seal of the Muhammadan saints. The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-'Arabi's interpreters. Like Chittick's earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-'Arabi's monumental work, al-Futuhat al-makkiyya "The Meccan Openings. More than one hundred chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indexes of sources, Koranic verses, and hadiths. The book's index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular

Member of

• SUNY series in Islam

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

297/.4

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BP189.26.I2623

LC item number

C47 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

SUNY series in Islam