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A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God
The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on
the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North
African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The
Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of
God that appear in the Qurʾan, including The All-Merciful, The
Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine
name, al-Tilimsānī synthesizes and compares the views of three
influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn
Barrajān. Al-Tilimsānī famously described his two teachers Ibn
al-ʿArabī and al-Qūnawī as a “philosophizing mystic” and a
“mysticizing philosopher,” respectively. Picking up their
mantle, al-Tilimsānī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining
the tenets of Akbari Sufism with the technical language of
Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains
his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn al-ʿArabī,
his overarching concern is not to examine the names as
correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how
the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence. The Divine
Names shows how a broad range of competing theological and
philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the
truth.
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.
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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