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Sufi Narratives of Intimacy - Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality (Paperback)
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Sufi Narratives of Intimacy - Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality (Paperback)
Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi
al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as
integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.
Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh
opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with
gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in
Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi
metaphysics and theology might allow for fundamental shifts in
Islamic gender ethics and legal formulations, addressing
wide-ranging contemporary challenges including questions of women's
rights in marriage and divorce, the politics of veiling, and
women's leadership of ritual prayer. Shaikh deftly deconstructs
traditional binaries between the spiritual and the political,
private conceptions of spiritual development and public notions of
social justice, and the realms of inner refinement and those of
communal virtue. Drawing on the treasured works of Sufism, Shaikh
raises a number of critical questions about the nature of selfhood,
subjectivity, spirituality, and society to contribute richly to the
prospects of Islamic feminism as well as feminist ethics more
broadly.
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