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Imaginal Worlds: Ibn Al-Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity
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Imaginal Worlds: Ibn Al-Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity

by William C. Chittick. 208 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William C. Chittick

Publisher:

   State University of New York Press

Place of Publication:

  Albany, NY  

Publication Year:

  1994
Subjects:   Ibn Al-Arabi,--1165-1240, Islam--Doctrines--History
Table of contents
Introduction 1
PART I. HUMAN PERFECTION
Oneness of Being 15
Divine Names and Human Perfection 20
Incomparability and Similarity 23
Microcosm, Macrocosm, and Perfect Man 31
The Goal of Creation 31
The Path to Perfection 35
Ethics and Antinomianism 39
Noble Character Traits 40
Blameworthy Character Traits 46
Self-Knowledge and the Original Human Disposition 51
The Nondelimitation of Wujūd 53
Imaginal Consciousness 54
Self-Knowledge 55
The Unknown Station 57
Annihilation and Subsistence 59
Becoming Human 62
PART II. WORLDS OF IMAGINATION
Revelation and Poetic Imagery 67
The Tarjumān al-Ashwāq 67
Imagination 70
Reason and Self-Disclosure 72
The Revelation of Similitudes 73
Witnessing the Loci of Vision 77
Meetings with Imaginal Men 83
Discerning Imaginal Realities 84
Varieties of Imaginal Perception 88
Imaginal Men 89
Death and the Afterlife 97
Revelation and Reason 97
The Isthmus after Death 98
The Unfolding of the Soul 101
The Next World 102
Inside/Outside 104
The Garden and the Fire 110
The Cooling of the Fire 113
PART III. RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
A Myth of Origins 123
The Koranic View of Revelation 124
The Divine Names and the Origins of Religion 126
Chapter 66 129
Diversity of Belief 137
The Roots of Belief 138
The Two Commands 141
Paths to God 145
Equilibrium 146
The Marks of Belief 149
Nondelimited Belief 152
The Circle of Religious Diversity 155
The Divine Roots of Religion 161
Gods of Belief 162
Rational Investigation 165
Names and Knottings 167
The Divine Form 168
All and Nothing 169
Prophecy and Guidance 170
Providential Limitations 172
Appreciating Knots 174
Notes 177
Bibliography 187
Index of Sources 191
Index of Koranic Verses 195
Index of Hadiths and Sayings 199
Index of Names and Terms 201
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