Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality
by
Shaikh, Sa'diyya.
Title
:
Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality
Author
:
Shaikh, Sa'diyya.
ISBN
:
9781775820123
Personal Author
:
Shaikh, Sa'diyya.
Publication Information
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Cape Town : University of Cape Town Press, 2013.
Physical Description
:
xi 285 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī -- Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology -- Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos -- The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī.
Personal Subject
:
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240-Criticism and interpretation.
Subject Term
:
Anthropology of religion -- Islamic Empire.
Women in Islam.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025769247 | 297.4092 S526S 2013 | 1 |