| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) |
| Series |
Islamic civilization and Muslim networks |
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Islamic civilization & Muslim networks
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 challenges including questions of women's rights in marriage and divorce, the politics of veiling, and women's leadership of ritual prayer. Shaikh deftly deconstructs traditional binaries between the spiritual and the political, private conceptions of spiritual development and public notions of social justice, and the realms of inner refinement and those of communal virtue. Drawing on the treasured works of Sufism, Shaikh raises a number of critical questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, spirituality, and society to contribute richly to the prospects of Islamic feminism as well as feminist ethics more broadly."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed November 7, 2016) |
| Subject |
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 fast |
| Subject |
Anthropology of religion -- Islamic Empire
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Women in Islam.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.
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Anthropology of religion
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Women in Islam
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Islamic Empire
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.
Poems. Selections. English
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| LC no. |
2011030429 |
| ISBN |
0807869864 |
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9780807869864 |
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9781469601939 |
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1469601931 |
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