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The Essence of Reality : : A Defense of Philosophical Sufism / / ʿAyn al-Quḍāt; ed. by Mohammed Rustom.

A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticismThe 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 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earli...

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VerfasserIn:	al-Quḍāt, ʿAyn,
HerausgeberIn:	Rustom, Mohammed,
Place / Publishing House:	New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022] ©2022
Year of Publication:	2022
Language:	English
Series:	Library of Arabic Literature ; 80
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479816620.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479816620 Cover
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Letter from the General Editor
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
The Essence of Reality
Preamble
Introduction: The Reason for Writing This Book
Chapter 1: Who Will Benefit from This Book?
Chapter 2: A Proof of the Eternal
Chapter 3: God’s Transcendence
Chapter 4: Categories of Existence
Chapter 5: Divine Names 28 Chapter 6: Divine Attributes
Chapter 6: Divine Attributes
Chapter 7: The Divine Names Are Relations
Chapter 8: Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility
Chapter 9: Why Did God Effectuate Existence?
Chapter 10: The Face of God and Existents
Chapter 11: God’s Infinite Knowledge
Chapter 12: Knowledge Is a Divine Attribute
Chapter 13: God’s Knowledge Is Changeless
Chapter 14: A Glimpse at the Stage beyond the Intellect
Chapter 15: The Inability to Comprehend God’s Knowledge
Chapter 16: True Faith
Chapter 17: The Intellect’s Proper Place
Chapter 18: The Stage beyond the Intellect and Premises
Chapter 19: The Inner Eye
Chapter 20: Longing for God
Chapter 21: Familiarity with the Spiritual World
Chapter 22: The Stage of Prophecy
Chapter 23: Faith in the Unseen
Chapter 24: The Path to Faith in Prophecy
Chapter 25: The Stage beyond the Intellect and the Divine Attributes
Chapter 26: The Intellect’s Relationship to Love
Chapter 27: The Lover’s Attraction to the Beloved
Chapter 28: The Last Stage of the Intellect
Chapter 29: “The Incapacity to Perceive Is Perception”
Chapter 30: A Transition
Chapter 31: God’s Essence and Attributes
Chapter 32: The Divine Essence and Its Standpoints
Chapter 33: The Way of the Righteous Predecessors
Chapter 34: Scriptural Evidence
Chapter 35: The Divine Attributes Are Relations
Chapter 36: Nonduality
Chapter 37: A Note on the Eternity of the World
Chapter 38: Divine Causation
Chapter 39: The True Nature of Causation
Chapter 40: An Example Using Natural Phenomena
Chapter 41: The Oneness of Existence and Causation
Chapter 42: An Example Using Mirrors
Chapter 43: The Mirror of the Intellect
Chapter 44: The Forms in Mirrors Are Relations
Chapter 45: A Note on the Limits of the Intellect
Chapter 46: Mirrors and the State of Dreaming
Chapter 47: Divine Power and Human Power
Chapter 48: The Possible and the Impossible
Chapter 49: Possibility Means Contingency
Chapter 50: The Creation of the World and Time
Chapter 51: Clarifications on the Term “World”
Chapter 52: The Eternity of the World in the Eyes of the Recognizer
Chapter 53: Do “Was” and “Is” Apply to God?
Chapter 54: God’s Beginninglessness and Time
Chapter 55: A Hint at Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 56: Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 57: Divine Withness
Chapter 58: A Note on Cosmic Order
Chapter 59: Witnessing Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 60: God’s Coextensiveness in the Eyes of the Recognizer
Chapter 61: The Difference between Knowledge and Recognition
Chapter 62: God-Given Knowledge
Chapter 63: Types of Knowledge and Instruction
Chapter 64: Setting Out on the Path of Recognition
Chapter 65: The Next Step on the Path of Recognition
Chapter 66: Spiritual Companionship
Chapter 67: Felicity
Chapter 68: God’s Generosity toward Me
Chapter 69: Finding a Spiritual Guide
Chapter 70: True Spiritual Guides and False Claimants
Chapter 71: Self-Admiration and Spiritual Guidance
Chapter 72: Back to the Question of Divine Priority
Chapter 73: God’s Withness Does Not Mean Human Withness
Chapter 74: Categories of Proximity and Distance
Chapter 75: The Last “Day”
Chapter 76: The Soul’s Relationship to the Body
Chapter 77: The Soul’s Immortality
Chapter 78: Souls Precede Bodies
Chapter 79: The Diversity of Souls
Chapter 80: The Relationship between the Soul and the Body
Chapter 81: God’s Self-Disclosure
Chapter 82: The Annihilation of My Metaphorical Identity
Chapter 83: My Yearning to Return Home
Chapter 84: In the Divine Presence
Chapter 85: A Final Word about My Journey
Chapter 86: Fleeing from This World
Chapter 87: Unhindered Souls
Chapter 88: Faith in the Afterlife
Chapter 89: The Intellect and the Afterlife
Chapter 90: Faith in the Unseen
Chapter 91: Searching for God
Chapter 92: Striving for Understanding
Chapter 93: The Evident and the Mysterious
Chapter 94: The Coming of the Hour
Chapter 95: The Stage beyond the Intellect Is Accessible to All
Chapter 96: The Intellect and the Stage beyond It
Chapter 97: Overcoming the Desire to Know
Chapter 98: Freedom from Time and Space
Chapter 99: Reaching God
Chapter 100: An Invitation
Conclusion: On Yearning
Notes
Glossary of Names
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index of Qurʾanic Verses
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Typefaces
Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
About the Editor–Translator

The Essence of Reality : : A Defense of Philosophical Sufism / / ʿAyn al-Quḍāt; ed. by Mohammed Rustom.

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