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Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi
Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi
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The thirteenth century mystic Ibn Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn Arabi, Gregory Lipton
calls this image into question and throws into relief how Ibn Arabi's discourse is inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu--that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn Arabi's absolutist conception with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism. The contours that surface through this comparative
analysis trace the discursive practices that inform Ibn Arabi's Western reception back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of authentic religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded against the Semitic Other-both Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that supersessionist
models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that ironically mirror Ibn Arabi's medieval absolutism.
Author: Gregory A. Lipton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190684501
calls this image into question and throws into relief how Ibn Arabi's discourse is inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu--that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn Arabi's absolutist conception with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism. The contours that surface through this comparative
analysis trace the discursive practices that inform Ibn Arabi's Western reception back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of authentic religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded against the Semitic Other-both Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that supersessionist
models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that ironically mirror Ibn Arabi's medieval absolutism.
Author: Gregory A. Lipton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190684501
About the Author
Gregory Lipton is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Macalester College, where he also held a Berg Postdoctoral Fellowhip in Religious Studies.
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