Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality

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Main Author: Shaikh, Saʿdiyya (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Delhi Munshiram Manoharlal c2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:A Hermeneutics of Intimacy (2017) (Wesselhoeft, Kirsten M. Yoder)
Edition:1. Indian ed.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sufism / Gender composition / Sexuality
B Ibn-al-ʿArabī 1165-1240 / Gender composition / Woman / Women's emancipation
Further subjects:B Ibn al-ʿArabī, 1165-1240 Criticism and interpretation
B Anthropology of religion Islamic Empire
B Women in Islam
Online Access: Verlag
Description
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-265) and indexes. - Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
ISBN:8121512557