The Tao of Islam
, by Murata, Sachiko- ISBN: 9780791409145 | 0791409147
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/1992
Foreword | |
A Note on Dates and Citations from the Koran | |
Introduction | |
The Intellectual Tradition in Islam | |
The Feminist Critique of Islam | |
The Background of the Present Book | |
Chinese and Islamic Thought | |
Theological Polarity | |
Signs of God | |
Cosmic Correspondences | |
Human Equilibrium | |
The Plan of the Book | |
The Three Realities | |
Signs in the Horizons and the Souls | |
Qualitative Correspondence | |
Qualitative Levels | |
Human All-Comprehensiveness | |
Children of the Elements | |
The Myth of Adam's Creation | |
Human Becoming | |
The Cosmic and Human Books | |
Theology | |
Divine Duality | |
God and the Essence | |
Incomparability and Similarity | |
Complementary Names | |
God and His Vassal | |
The One and the Two | |
The Creation of the Many | |
The Differentiation of the Undifferentiated | |
Being and Knowledge | |
Majesty and Beauty | |
Awe and Intimacy | |
Social Implications of Divine Duality | |
The Two Hands of God | |
Right and Left | |
The Views of Koran Commentators | |
Fingers and Feet | |
The Two Hands in the Futuhat al-makkiyya | |
The Fusus al-hikam | |
Mu'ayyid al-Din Jandi | |
'Abd al-Razzaq Kashani | |
Dawud Qaysari | |
Sadr al-Din Qunawi | |
Sa'id al-Din Farghani | |
Farghani on the Two Handfuls | |
Cosmology | |
Heaven and Earth | |
The Creation of the Cosmos | |
The Tao of Heaven and Earth | |
Heaven and Earth as Correlative Terms | |
Similitudes | |
Shifting Relationships | |
The Seven Heavens | |
The Four Elements | |
The Virtues of the Earth | |
Macrocosmic Marriage | |
Fathers and Mothers | |
Universal Marriage | |
Triplicity | |
The Pen and the Tablet | |
The Intellect and the Soul | |
Natural Children | |
Changing Relationships | |
The Faces of the Intellect | |
The Two Wings of Gabriel | |
Human Marriage | |
Marriage in Society | |
Man's Degree over Woman (I) | |
Man's Degree over Woman (II) | |
Mutual Love | |
Women Made Lovable | |
The Fusus al-hikam | |
Mutual Longing | |
Witnessing God in Women | |
Marriage and Creation | |
Perfect Sexual Union | |
The Symbolism of Grammatical Gender | |
Spiritual Counsel | |
The Womb | |
Universal Worship | |
The Mercy of Existence | |
Nature as Wife and Mother | |
Love for Parents | |
The Womb as Microcosm | |
The Womb as Nature | |
Spiritual Psychology | |
Static Hierarchy | |
Principles of Ta'wil | |
Names of the Unseen | |
Signs of the Microcosm | |
Spirit | |
Soul | |
Intellect | |
The Spirit's Kingdom | |
Heaven and Earth | |
Dynamics of the Soul | |
Struggle on the Path to God | |
The Soul's Evil | |
Conflicting Character Traits | |
The Soul's Receptivity | |
Manliness and Chivalry | |
Negative Masculinity | |
Adam, Eve, and Iblis | |
The Soul's Animals | |
Purifying the Soul | |
The Heart | |
In the Koran and the Hadith | |
Between Spirit and Soul | |
The Heart in the School of Ibn al-'Arabi | |
The Birth of the Heart | |
The Heart's Birth According to 'Izz al-Din Kashani | |
The Heart's Birth According to Ibn al-'Arabi's School | |
The Soul as Virgin Mother | |
The Perfected Heart | |
True Men and True Women | |
Postscript | |
Chronological List of Authors Cited | |
Notes on Authors Cited | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index of Koranic Verses | |
Index of Hadiths and Sayings | |
General Index | |
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