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The Mystics of al-Andalus - Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
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The Mystics of al-Andalus - Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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The twelfth century CE was a watershed moment for mysticism in the
Muslim West. In al-Andalus, the pioneers of this mystical
tradition, the Mu'tabirun or 'Contemplators', championed a
synthesis between Muslim scriptural sources and Neoplatonic
cosmology. Ibn Barrajan of Seville was most responsible for shaping
this new intellectual approach, and is the focus of Yousef
Casewit's book. Ibn Barrajan's extensive commentaries on the divine
names and the Qur'an stress the significance of God's signs in
nature, the Arabic bible as a means of interpreting the Qur'an, and
the mystical crossing from the visible to the unseen. With an
examination of the understudied writings of both Ibn Barrajan and
his contemporaries, Ibn al-'Arif and Ibn Qasi, as well as the wider
socio-political and scholarly context in al-Andalus, this book will
appeal to researchers of the medieval Islamic world and the history
of mysticism and Sufism in the Muslim West.
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