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....” The idea that one seeks and can achieve perfection, or knowledge of the divine, through study of holy texts and the perfection of the soul echoes a Sufi belief found in the work of medieval Andalusi thinkers, such as the early thirteenth-century Ibn ‘Arabi, whose ideal of the “perfect man” ( al-insān al...

.... Meir Ibn Gabbai, Sefer 'Avodat ha-Qodesh2 T his statement by Meir Ibn Gabbai well-known sixteenth-century Kabbalist and refugee from Spain is really a remarkable theory of progress. He does not deny ithe existence of innovation. He sim ply projects it back into history, to its original source...

... Works of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī ), edited by Mojåhed Äḥmӓd . 4th ed. Tehran : Dåneshgåh-e Tehrån, Moʾässese-ye Enteshåtåt , 1388/2009 . Ibn al-ʿArabī Muḥyī ʾl-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlī . Inshāʾ al-dawāʾir wa . . . ʿUqlat al-mustawiz wa . . . Tadbīrāt al-ilāhiyya , edited by Nyberg Hendrik...

... of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . Fierro Maribel . “ The Treatises against Innovations ( Kutub al-Bidaʿ ) .” Der Islam 69 , no. 2 ( 1992 ): 202 – 46 . García-Sanjuán Alejandro . “ Jews and Christians in Almoravid Seville as Portrayed by the Islamic Jurist Ibn ʿAbdūn .” Medieval Encounters...

... , 1994 . Fackenheim Emil . “ A Treatise on Love by Ibn Sina .” Mediaeval Studies 7 ( 1945 ): 208 – 28 . Farneth Molly . “ ‘The Power to Empty Oneself’: Hegel, Kenosis, and Intellectual Virtue .” Political Theology 18 , no. 2 ( 2017 ): 157 – 71 . Harris Matthew Edward...

... the prophet Moses and an unnamed figure whom tradition identifies as Khiḍr. 1 Al-Jāmiʿ li-aḥkām al-qurʾān ( The Compendium of Legal Rulings of the Qur’an ) by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī (d. 671 AH/1272 CE) and al-Tafsīr al-kabīr ( The Great Commentary ) (or Mafātīḥ al-ghayb...

... of experience. 32 Sells, Mystical Languages of Unsaying . 33 Austin, Ibn al-ʿArabi , 50 . 34 A ḥadīth is a report of the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad. A ḥadīth qudsī is a type of report in which it is believed that the Prophet Muhammad is expressing the words of God...

... Ishmael’s.” 17 Another hadith mentions that God’s friends are like Abraham, and the title friend ( halil in Arabic) refers to Abraham in Islam (Halil-ul Allah; the Friend of God). 18 One of the most important Sufis of the twelfth century, Ibn Arabi, 19 writes: Abraham is called...

..., preserved, copied, and read. The works of mystics like Meister Eckhart or Ibn Arabi represent shifts in discourses about God and religious experience that contribute to changes in how religious authority is imagined and articulated. Such texts perform important social work regarding the relative authority...

... as the M aqaddim ah (Prolegom ena, 1377) o f Ibn Khaldun, the fourteenth-century Tunisian historian and father of Islamic sociology. As he develops his universal philosophy o f history there, Ibn Khaldün argues that Arab culture had naturally evolved from the prim itive to the settled, w ith the Bedouin...

... and Society.” Traditionally, Sufis and Sufi orders have faced further forms of competition and criticism from legalistic and/or “fundamentalist” Muslims. Though this competition often plays out in scholarly screeds such as those of Ibn Taymiyyah, it has also played out violently, beginning with the execution...

... commentary explicating the divine being or infinite unnameable who that inexplicably brings it into being, follow ing the broadly pre-modern (and more specifi­ cally Neoplatonic) vision of existence as eternal procession and return. As Ibn Arabi explained, the cosmos is to be understood as the ongoing effect...

... in favour of Islam (Austin 68). Likewise, U m ar ibn Said, baptized as a Christian in 1821, convinced many that he was a successful convert. While he did in fact write the L ord s Prayer in Arabic for visitors, he also prefaced it with prayers to Allah, and on occasion passed off random lists and excerpts...

... fourteenth-century w o rld map unfolds before your eyes. Imagine tracing Ibn Battuta's or Marco Polo's journeys through layers o f the past the bridges, canals, and m arkets of fourteenth-century Hangchow in China; the gilded pedim ents o f Constantinople; fabled, storied Damascus; tem ple dance and carvings...

... Ariel . Los discursos sobre la muerte en la Castilla medieval (siglos VII–XV) . Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura , 1998 . Himyarī Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al- . Al-Rawd al-Mi’tar fi Khabar a-Aqtar: Mu’jam jughrafi ma’a faharis shamilah , edited...

...) of Córdoba, Granada, Málaga, Sevilla, Valencia, and so on. 19 McKay to Bradley, March 14, 1929. 20 In one letter to Bradley, McKay invokes La Giralda as the architectural signifier of the pan-Iberia-Moroccan Black power embodied by the Marinid sultan, Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Othman: “I went...

... for Time,” 263 . 32 Dekeyser, “Worldless Futures.” 33 Pandolfo, “Taʿbīr,” 105 . Scholars like Pandolfo and Vincent Crapanzano ( Imaginative Horizons ) draw on Ibn al-Arabi’s work on barzakh , for instance, the formulation of barzakh as something that “joins by separating.” For Pandolfo...

... The quest to analyze the Q ur'äriic text was undertaken by the Arabic speaking literati o f Early and Classical Islam, including philologists like Sibawayh (d. 797), al-Farrä' (d. 822), and Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889). In the introduction to his aptly named Eloquence and Demonstration (al-bayãn wa al-tabyln), one...

..., according to Goytisolo, ultimately derives from its alliance with the texts of Sufi mysticism—Ibn al-Farid’s Wine Ode (ca. thirteenth century), Farid ud-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds (1177), the poetry of Ibn Arabi (1165–1240). While it may be no surprise, then, that the professor of Arabic, Ben...

..., 249. 31 Paulus Aeginata (625-690 C.E.) was a Greek physician. Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 C.E.) was known in Europe as Ablucasis. He is considered to be the father of modern surgery. His medical texts had a huge influence on both medieval and early modern surgical procedures...