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Sufi narratives of intimacy [electronic resource] : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality / Sa'diyya Shaikh.

By: Series: Islamic civilization & Muslim networksPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)ISBN:
  • 0807869864 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780807869864 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 297.4092 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ7755.I175 Z92 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī -- 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology -- 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos -- 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī -- 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology -- 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos -- 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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