Mysticism and Rational Inquiry in the School of Ibn ʿArabī
Abstract
This is not, of course, an endorsement of the simplistic view which says that religious symbolism or mysticism is merely philosophy clothed up and made accessible to non-philosophers. In fact, through an engagement with both mysticism and philosophy, Ibn ʿArabī and his followers would also like to suggest that philosophical language is itself in so many ways a symbolic representation of religious or mystical truths. Nevertheless, their perspective is usually characterized as being a kind of philosophical mysticism, as it forms a unique hybrid of both philosophy and mysticism in a particular technical language largely informed by the view that, from one perspective, rational inquiry and mysticism are two sides of the same coin.
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- For Ibn ʿArabī’s life and teachings respectively, see, inter alia, Claude Addas, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ʿArabī, translated by Peter Kingsley (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993); William Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
- For the school of Ibn ʿArabī, see Mukhtar A. Ali, Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī (New York: Routledge, 2021); Chittick, “The School of Ibn ʿArabī,” in History of Islamic Philosophy, edited by S. H. Nasr and Oliver Leaman (New York: Routledge, 1996); Caner Dagli, Ibn ʿArabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2014).
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Mohammed Rustom
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Canada
Yayımlanma Tarihi
14 Aralık 2022
Gönderilme Tarihi
27 Ağustos 2022
Kabul Tarihi
2 Eylül 2022
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