The Sufi doctrine of man : ?adr al-Din al-Qunawi's metaphysical anthropology /

The Sufi doctrine of man : ?adr al-Din al-Qunawi's metaphysical anthropology /

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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Main Author: Todd, Richard, 1968-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 90.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262485.

Subjects:

Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, > -1273 or 1274.
Theological anthropology > Islam.
Sufis > Biography.
Sufism.

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Call Number: BP166.7 .T63 2014

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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.