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The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi
theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western
scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing
that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In
Rethinking Ibn `Arabi, Gregory Lipton calls this image into
question and throws into relief how Ibn `Arabi's discourse is
inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own
religious milieuthat is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled,
superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed
religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn `Arabi's absolutist conception
with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been
read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning
interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism.
The contours that surface through this comparative analysis trace
the discursive practices that inform Ibn `Arabi's Western reception
back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of "authentic"
religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded
against the Semitic Otherboth Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that
supersessionist models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary
Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that
ironically mirror Ibn `Arabi's medieval absolutism.
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