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Ibn `Arabi's Mystical Poetics (Hardcover)
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Ibn `Arabi's Mystical Poetics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs
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Muhyī l-Dīn Ibn Arabī (1165-1240) was a
hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet
although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has
received very little attention. This book is the first full-length
monograph devoted to his Dīwān (collected poems).
It begins by attempting to define Ibn Arabī's poetic style
and his understanding of poetics, which is closely intertwined with
his metaphysics: the rhythms of poetry echo those of creation, and
meaning combines with form just as the spirit descends on matter.
Drawing on a pre-Islamic theme, he insists that his poetry was
revealed to him word for word by a spirit. At the same time,
however, his attitude to the function of poetry and its relation to
scripture is closer to mainstream medieval Islamic, Jewish and
Christian theology than has usually been thought.
Denis E. McAuley focuses on close readings of books in unusual
verse forms, including poetic responses to chapters of the Qur'an;
imitations of earlier poets; poems that use only one rhyme word;
and a cycle of poems modelled on the letters of the alphabet. In so
doing, he makes frequent comparisons with other Islamic and
European poets from the sixth century to the dawn of the twentieth,
many of them virtually unstudied. Ibn Arabī emerges as a
highly original poet whose work casts a fresh light on the period
and on classical Arabic literature as a whole.
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