Ibn 'Arabi Heir to the Prophets

Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of this legendary Sufi writer.

William C. Chittick is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University

Introduction

1

(3)

Ibn `Arabi's Life

4

(5)

Abbreviations Used in the Text

9

(2)

The Muhammadan Inheritance

11

(16)

Inheritance

12

(2)

Opening

14

(2)

The Muhammadan Seal

16

(1)

Reading the Qur'an

17

(1)

Understanding God

18

(2)

Knowing Self

20

(2)

God's Wide Earth

22

(1)

The Inheritor

23

(4)

The Lover of God

27

(8)

Assuming the Traits of the Names

29

(2)

The Divine and Human Form

31

(1)

Imperfect Love

32

(3)

The Divine Roots of Love

35

(18)

Wujud

36

(2)

The Nonexistent Beloved

38

(2)

The Entities

40

(2)

The Genesis of Love

42

(2)

Love's Throne

44

(1)

Human Love

45

(1)

Felicity

46

(1)

Poverty

47

(2)

Perfection

49

(4)

The Cosmology of Remembrance

53

(16)

Remembrance

53

(2)

Prophecy

55

(2)

The Book of the Soul

57

(1)

The Breath of the All-Merciful

58

(3)

Knowledge of the Names

61

(1)

All-Comprehensiveness

62

(1)

Achieving the Status of Adam

63

(1)

The Perfect Servant

64

(2)

The House of God

66

(3)

Knowledge and Realization

69

(18)

Knowledge

70

(2)

Benefit

72

(2)

The Form of God

74

(1)

Reliable Knowledge

75

(2)

Following Authority

77

(1)

Realization

78

(2)

The Ambiguity of Creation

80

(1)

Giving Things their Haqq

81

(2)

The Rights of God and Man

83

(1)

The Soul's Haqq

84

(3)

Time, Space, and the Objectivity of Ethical Norms

87

(14)

The Methodology of Realization

87

(4)

Time and Space

91

(1)

Location

92

(1)

Time

93

(1)

Eternity

94

(2)

Constant Transformation

96

(1)

Ethics

97

(2)

Lost in the Cosmos

99

(2)

The In-Between

101

(14)

Relativity

102

(1)

The Worldview of In-Betweenness

103

(2)

Cosmic Imagination

105

(3)

The Soul

108

(1)

The Soul's Root

109

(2)

Controversies

111

(1)

The Gods of Belief

112

(3)

The Disclosure of the Intervening Image

115

(8)

Self-Awareness

117

(1)

Death

118

(1)

Love

119

(4)

The Hermeneutics of Mercy

123

(22)

Interpreting the Qur'an

124

(2)

Good Opinions of God

126

(2)

The Return to the All-Merciful

128

(2)

The Mercy of Wujud

130

(1)

Mercy's Precedence

131

(3)

Essential Servanthood

134

(1)

Primordial Nature

135

(1)

Sweet Torment

136

(3)

Constitutional Diversity

139

(2)

Surrender

141

(4)

Resources

145

(2)

Index

147

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Ibn 'Arabi Heir to the Prophets

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