The essence of reality : a defense of philosophical Sufism
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書誌事項
The essence of reality : a defense of philosophical Sufism
（Library of Arabic literature）
New York University Press, c2022
- : cloth
- タイトル別名
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زبدة الحقائق
- 統一タイトル
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Zubdat al-ḥaqāʾiq
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
"زبدة الحقائق"--P. facing t.p.
In English and Arabic; translated from Arabic
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism
The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author 'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. This important work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical Islamic philosophy and philosophical mysticism.
Written in a terse yet beautiful style, The Essence of Reality consists of one hundred brief chapters interspersed with Qur'anic verses, prophetic sayings, Sufi maxims, and poetry. In conversation with the work of the philosophers Avicenna and al-Ghazali, the book takes readers on a philosophical journey, with lucid expositions of questions including the problem of the eternity of the world; the nature of God's essence and attributes; the concepts of "before" and "after"; and the soul's relationship to the body. All these discussions are seamlessly tied into 'Ayn al-Qudat's foundational argument-that mystical knowledge lies beyond the realm of the intellect.
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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