Performing Sufi Masculinity by Transcending Embodiment in Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s Kitāb al-Ḥikam
Abstract Through a gendered analysis of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s (d. 709/1309) Kitāb al-Ḥikam (“Book of Wisdom”) this paper demonstrates how the Sufi program offered in the Ḥikam prescribes the performance of masculinity through the transcendence of embodiment. Reading the text’s only reference to women as...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of Islamic ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 98-127 |
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Renunciation
B Masculinity B Judith Butler B Jacques Derrida B Gender B Embodiment B Immanence B Transcendence B Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh B Performance B textual self-reference B Sufism B body-denial |
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