The Divine Names - A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan

A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilims�nī, The Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʾan, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine name, al-Tilims�nī synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghaz�lī, and Ibn Barraj�n. Al-Tilims�nī famously described his two teachers Ibn al-ʿArabī and al-Qūnawī as a “philosophizing mystic� and a “mysticizing philosopher,� respectively. Picking up their mantle, al-Tilims�nī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbari Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn al-ʿArabī, his overarching concern is not to examine the names as correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence. The Divine Names shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth.

General

Imprint:	New York University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Library of Arabic Literature
Release date:	October 2023
Authors:	ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilims�nī
Editors:	Yousef Casewit
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-4798-2612-4
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4798-2612-X
Barcode:	9781479826124

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