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The mystics of al-Andalus, Ibn Barrajan and Islamic thought in the twelfth century, Yousef Casewit

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The mystics of al-Andalus, Ibn Barrajan and Islamic thought in the twelfth century, Yousef Casewit

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The mystics of al-Andalus

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

987353898

Responsibility statement

Yousef Casewit

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

Ibn Barrajan and Islamic thought in the twelfth century

Summary

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 Barrajān of Seville was most responsible for shaping this new intellectual approach, and is the focus of Yousef Casewit's book. Ibn Barrajān'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 Barrajān 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.--, Provided by publisher

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