Islam, Christianity and the Mystic Journey : : A Comparative Exploration /

Islam, Christianity and the Mystic Journey : : A Comparative Exploration / / Ian Richard Netton.

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This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions - the journey which every believer must make and which leads to the Divine.The author clears away misconceptions and highlights similarities and differences in the thought and liv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Netton, Ian Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 EXPLORING THE MYSTICAL IMAGINATION: PERFECTION AND ITS QUINQUE VIAE
  • 1.1 The Sacred Way
  • 1.2 The Secular Way
  • 1.3 The Mystic Way
  • 1.4 The Way of English Chivalry
  • 1.5 The Way of Sufi Chivalry
  • 1.6 Secular and Sacred: Linking the Ways of Perfection
  • 2 CAVES, CLOUDS AND MOUNTAINS: THE APOPHATIC TRADITION
  • 2.1 Caves
  • 2.2 Clouds
  • 2.3 Mountain Caves of Knowledge and Revelation
  • 3 THE MYSTIC TELOS: CATAPHATIC AND ECSTATIC TRADITIONS
  • 3.1 G uidebooks to Paradise: A Traveller’s Bookshelf Surveyed
  • 3.2 Islamic
  • 3.3 Christian
  • 4 JOURNEY’S END: TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE WAY
  • 4.1 T he Realm of Mystic Colour
  • 4.2 T he Realm of al-Kha∂ir/Elijah and the Mystic Journey
  • 4.3 T he Realm of the Mystic Telos
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index

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