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Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi

By Lipton, Gregory A.

Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi

By Lipton, Gregory A.

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The thirteenth century mystic Ibn Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn Arabi, Gregory Lipton calls this image into question and throws into relief how Ibn Arabi's discourse is inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu--that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn Arabi's absolutist conception with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism. The contours that surface through this comparative analysis trace the discursive practices that inform Ibn Arabi's Western reception back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of "authentic" religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded against the Semitic Other-both Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that supersessionist models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that ironically mirror Ibn Arabi's medieval absolutism.
Product details
Number of Pages:
302
Release Date:
2018-05-01
Publication Date:
2018-05-01
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019068450X
ISBN13:
9780190684501
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
619 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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