The Nightfolk: Ibn 'arabi Behind the Veil of Night - Hardcover

Rasic, Dunja

 
9780520422612: The Nightfolk: Ibn 'arabi Behind the Veil of Night
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0520422619 ISBN 13: 9780520422612
Verlag: University of California Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhyi al-Din Ibn ?Arabi behind the veil of the night. There, Ibn ?Arabi first came face to face with advanced and morally ambiguous spiritual practitioners known as the Nightfolk.
 
In The Nightfolk, Duja Rašic offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the once-widespread beliefs about the night and its people in Muslim cultures and societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary source materials, Rašic traces these beliefs from their origins in the seventh century to their most prominent form in the thirteenth-century works of Ibn ?Arabi. Re-examining common notions of spiritual authority, ascension, self-isolation, moral choice, and transgression in Muslim cultures and societies, The Nightfolk is a crucial read for those interested in philosophical Sufism and Ibn ?Arabi’s attempts to bridge the gap between the visible world and the realms of the unseen.

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Dunja Rašic is a Sufi scholar and author of The Written World of God and Bedeviled.

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"The Nightfolk is a cross-cultural foray into Ibn ?Arabi’s fascinating treatment of a unique class of spiritual people whose dark nights are illuminated by retreat and prayer. This book will prove to be useful to scholars of mysticism and those who seek refuge in the silence of the night from the distracting din of the day."—Mohammed Rustom, author of Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ?Ayn al-Qu?at

"Much of current 'esoteric' writing about darkness is content to pursue the demonic or 'shadows.' Dunja Rašic instead looks at the mysterious, love-filled aspect of those whose high spiritual station is often veiled even from themselves. Through her meticulous scholarship in The Nightfolk, the nuances of their teaching as received through Ibn ‘Arabi is revealed to us."—Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University and Founder of Illuminated Courses and Tours

"Rašic gives us luminous reflections on darkness and the night through Ibn ?Arabi’s uniquely colourful window."—Aydogan Kars, author of Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520422619
ISBN 13 
9780520422612
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Anzahl der Seiten
309
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