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Ibn al-'Arabi's Barzakh -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Ibn al-'Arabi's Liminal (Barzakhi) Theory of Representation: An Outlook from the Present Situation -- Presentation and Representation: Complementary Elements in the Mystical Experience -- Carter's View -- Rorty's Antirepresentational Stand -- Ibn al-'Arabi's Stand -- Wasserstrom's Criticism of Mystrocentrism -- 2. Creation ex nihilo, Creation in Time, and Eternal Creation: Ibn Sina versus the Theologians -- Creation ex nihilo in the Qur'an |
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Creation ex nihilo, Creation in Time, and Islamic Theologians -- Ibn Sina's Answers to the Theologians' Arguments -- Ibn Sina on the Possible- and the Necessary-of-Existence -- Ibn Sina's Distinction between Essence and Existence -- 3. Ibn Rushd versus al-Ghazali on the Eternity of the World -- Between The Incoherence of the Philosophers and The Incoherence of the Incoherence -- The First Proof -- The Second Proof -- The Third Proof -- Ibn Rushd's Doctrine of Eternal Creation: The Emergence of the Problem of the Limit |
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4. Mysticism versus Philosophy: The Encounter between Ibn al-'Arabi and Ibn Rushd -- Mysticism between Theology and Philosophy -- An Interpretation of the Encounter between Khadir and Moses from Ibn al-'Arabi's Perspective -- The Encounter between Ibn Rushd and Ibn al-'Arabi -- 5. The Barzakh -- The Intermediate State (Barzakh) in the Qur'an and in the Canonical Tradition -- The Barzakh in the Exegesis of the Qur'an and in Scholastic Theology -- Plato's Theory of the Forms -- Ibn al-'Arabi's Definition of the Barzakh -- Ibn al-'Arabi versus Ibn Sina: Two Conceptions of the Relative |
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6. The Third Entity: The Supreme Barzakh -- Plato's Form, The Mu'tazilites' Nonexistent, and Ibn al-'Arabi's Fixed Entity -- Plato's Introduction of the Receptacle -- Ibn al-'Arabi's Introduction of the Third Thing -- The Problem of the Creation of the World Revisited -- 7. The Perfect Man: The Epistemological Aspect of the Third Thing -- The Perfect Man as the Conclusion of Divine Love -- The Perfect Man as the Possessor of Divine Knowledge -- The Logic of the Knowledge of Perfection -- 8. The Limit Situation -- On Knowing the Waystation of "In The Articulations is the Knowledge of the Stairs." |
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Annotation. This book explores how Iban al-'Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term barzakh indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn al-'Arabi's unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn al-'Arabi's development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man, and compares Ibn al-'Arabi's vision with Plato's |
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Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.
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Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240. fast (OCoLC)fst00019726 |
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Intermediate state -- Islam.
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Creation (Islam)
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Intermediate state -- Islam.
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Creation (Islam)
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Electronic book
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0791462277 |
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9780791462270 |
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9780791484340 |
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0791484343 |
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