A Mughal Treatise on Essence and Existence: Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī’s Equivalence between Giving and Receiving (al-Taswiya bayna al-Ifāda wa-l-Qabūl)
This article presents an annotated translation of The Equivalence between Giving and Receiving (al-Taswiya bayna al-ifāda wa-l-qabūl), a short Arabic treatise on essence (dhāt) and existence (wujūd) composed by the South Asian philosopher-Sufi Shaykh Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī (996–1058/1587–1648). Alth...
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 108-140 |
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B Muḥibb Allāh ibn Mubāriz Ilāhābādī B Islam in South Asia B unity of existence B Islamic metaphysics B Mughal Empire B philosophical Sufism B Quiddity B Existence B Ibn al-ʿArabī |
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