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Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaikh, Sa'diyya
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
Subjects:
Ibn al-ʻArabī, > 1165-1240 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women in Islam.
Anthropology of religion > Islamic Empire.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries
  • 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī
  • 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology
  • 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience
  • 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos
  • 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve
  • 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation
  • 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism
  • Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.