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The Essence of Reality - A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (Hardcover)
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The Essence of Reality - A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
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A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The 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
'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which
that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition
of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. This important
work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical
Islamic philosophy and philosophical mysticism. Written in a terse
yet beautiful style, The Essence of Reality consists of one hundred
brief chapters interspersed with Qur'anic verses, prophetic
sayings, Sufi maxims, and poetry. In conversation with the work of
the philosophers Avicenna and al-Ghazali, the book takes readers on
a philosophical journey, with lucid expositions of questions
including the problem of the eternity of the world; the nature of
God's essence and attributes; the concepts of "before" and "after";
and the soul's relationship to the body. All these discussions are
seamlessly tied into 'Ayn al-Qudat's foundational argument-that
mystical knowledge lies beyond the realm of the intellect. A
bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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