Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī on Waḥdat al-Wuǧūd and its Philosophical Origins
This article studies the critique of waḥdat al-wuǧūd penned by Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī (d. 1954), one of the last Ottoman şeyhülislams. Ṣabrī’s critique echoes those written by previous theologians such as al-Taftāzānī while simultaneously criticising their shortcomings. In Ṣabrī’s view, waḥdat al-wuǧūd origi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Arabica
Year: 2024, Volume: 71, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 474-512 |
| Further subjects: | B
théologie du kalam
B Arabic philosophy B héritage d’Ibn Sināʾ B héritage d’Ibn ʿArabī B Soufisme philosophique B philosophie arabe B Ibn Sīnā’s heritage B Ibn ʿArabī’s heritage B pensée ottomane tardive B kalām theology B late-Ottoman thought B Philosophical Sufism |
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| Summary: | This article studies the critique of waḥdat al-wuǧūd penned by Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī (d. 1954), one of the last Ottoman şeyhülislams. Ṣabrī’s critique echoes those written by previous theologians such as al-Taftāzānī while simultaneously criticising their shortcomings. In Ṣabrī’s view, waḥdat al-wuǧūd originates in what he calls “the divinization of existence”: the identification of God’s essence with his existence, a doctrine held by Muslim peripatetics and adopted by several philosophical theologians. It is just because they failed to locate such an origin that Ṣabrī believes previous critiques of the Akbarian doctrine were not adequate. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Arabica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700585-20246899 |
