The Sufi doctrine of man : : Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi's metaphysical anthropology / / by Richard Todd.
In The Sufi Doctrine of Man , Richard Todd examines the life and thought of Ibn 'Arabī's chief disciple, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (13th century C.E.). Making use of manuscript sources, he analyzes and contextualizes Qūnawī's esoteric vision of the nature and purpose of human existence, a...
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| Superior document: | Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Volume 90 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ;
Volume 90. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Life and Times
- Qūnawī’s Corpus
- Intellectual Currents and Debates
- Cosmology
- Man’s Metaphysical Origins
- The Human State
- Liberation
- The Reception of Qūnawī’s Thought
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Critical List of Qūnawī’s Works
- Appendix 2 Qūnawī’s Ijāzas to Farghānī and Jandī
- Appendix 3 Translated Excerpts from Qūnawī’s Epistemological Texts
- Bibliography
- Index.