The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn Al-ʿarabī In the Muqaddimat Al-Qayṣarī

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42524-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

The Horizons of Being explores the teachings of Ibn al-'Arabi by examining Dawud al-Qaysari’s (d. 751/1350) Prolegomena to his commentary on the Fusus al-hikam, popularly known as the Muqaddimat al-Qaysari. A masterpiece of Sufism, the Muqaddima is both a distillation of the Fusus and a summary of Ibn al-'Arabi’s entire metaphysical worldview. As such, it is a foundational text that delves into the most important subjects characterizing the philosophical Sufi tradition: Being, God’s attributes, divine knowledge, the universal worlds, unveiling, creation and the microcosm, the perfect human, the origin and return of the spirit, prophethood and sainthood. The present work is a complete translation of the Muqaddima and a commentary that incorporates the ideas of the main exponents of this tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

H. Ali, Mukhtar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. On Being, and that He is the Truth

2. The Divine Names and Attributes

3. The Permanent Archetypes and a Comment on the Manifestations of the Names

4. Substance and Accident According to God’s folk

5. The Universal Worlds and the Five Divine Planes

6. The Imaginal World

7. The Degrees of Unveiling and its Types

8. The World is the Form of the Human Reality

9. The Muhammadan Vicegerency and his Being the Pole of Poles

10. The Supreme Spirit its Degrees and Names in the Human World

11. The Return of the Spirit and its Manifestations During the Greater Resurrection

12. Prophethood, Messengership, and Sainthood

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mukhtar H. Ali, Ph.D. (2007) University of California, Berkeley, is currently Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, the University of London. He specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and ethics, and has published widely in various peer-reviewed venues. He has also translated several works in classical and contemporary Islamic metaphysics, which include The Principles of Correspondences (2013) and The New Creation (2018).