In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought

Chittick, William C.; Rustom, Mohammed; Khalil, Atif; Murata, Kazuyo

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Ibn al‐ʿArabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and Sainthood

Ali

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Muhyiddin Ibn al‐ʿArabi, known as the Greatest Master ( al‐Shaykh al‐Akbar ) is one of Islam's most influential thinkers and prolific writers. He brought the esoteric dimension of Islam to new heights and created a comprehensive system of mystical thought that has infused virtually every Islamic discipline for the past 700 years. After discussing his influence on Islamic scholarship, this chapter will focus on some of his most important ideas: his theory of knowledge, the nature of Being, the concept of Man, and finally, the hierarchy of spiritual people, namely, the saints who are the heirs to the prophets. In this last aspect, Ibn al‐ʿArabi claimed to have been nominated as the Seal of the Saints, a claim that would endure for centuries without being challenged by any other mystic thereafter, earning him his title, the Greatest Master. This study concludes with a discussion on the finality of Ibn al‐ʿArabi's sainthood which is, in his own doctrine, superseded by the Solitary Ones ( al‐afrād ), individuals who are beyond the purview of even the Pole of existence ( al‐qutb ).

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Ibn al‐ʿArabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and Sainthood

Ali

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Beyond imitation: A case for the hermeneutic agency of Persianate literary retellings

Ijaz

2024

Postmedieval

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Devil’s Advocate: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Defence of Iblis in Context

Rustom

2020

Studia Islam.

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The writings of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1131) anticipate some of the major trends that characterize the post-Avicennan ḥikmat tradition. But modern scholarship has as of yet not completely come to grips with the far-reaching implications of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s teachings, many of which are framed in terms of the symbolic language and imagery of the Persian Sufi school of passionate love (madhhab-i ʿishq) and the defence of the devil’s monotheism (tawḥīd-i Iblīs). The focus in this article will be upon this latter aspect of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Sufi doctrine. Upon closer inspection, his “Satanology” (for lack of a better term) turns out to not only be concerned with a defence of the devil as a tragic, fallen lover of God; it is also intimately related to our author’s robust theodicy, as well as his theory of human freedom and constraint. At the same time, ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s defence of Iblis demonstrates his understanding of philosophical and theological discourse as themselves symbolic representations of another, higher form of being and knowing.

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In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Ibn al‐ʿArabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and Sainthood

Ibn al‐ʿArabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and Sainthood

Beyond imitation: A case for the hermeneutic agency of Persianate literary retellings

Devil’s Advocate: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Defence of Iblis in Context

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