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The essence of reality a defense of philosophical Sufism = Zubdat al-ḥaqā' iq
Uniform Title
Zubdat al-ḥaqā' iq. English
Title
The essence of reality [electronic resource] : a defense of philosophical Sufism = Zubdat al-ḥaqā' iq / 'Ayn al-Quḍat ; edited and translated by Mohammed Rustom.
ISBN
1479816620
9781479816620
9781479816613
1479816612
9781479816590
1479816590
Publication
New York : New York University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xxx, 241 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
In English and Arabic; translated from Arabic.
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Variant and related titles
Zubdat al-ḥaqā' iq
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
Other formats
Print version: ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, -1131. Zubdat al-ḥaqāʼiq. English. Essence of reality. New York : New York University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English; Arabic
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2023
Series
Library of Arabic Literature ; 80
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Intro
Letter from the General Editor
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
The Essence of Reality
Preamble
Introduction: The Reason for Writing This Book
Chapter 1: Who Will Benefit from This Book?
Chapter 2: A Proof of the Eternal
Chapter 3: God's Transcendence
Chapter 4: Categories of Existence
Chapter 5: Divine Names
Chapter 6: Divine Attributes
Chapter 7: The Divine Names Are Relations
Chapter 8: Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility
Chapter 9: Why Did God Effectuate Existence?
Chapter 10: The Face of God and Existents
Chapter 11: God's Infinite Knowledge
Chapter 12: Knowledge Is a Divine Attribute
Chapter 13: God's Knowledge Is Changeless
Chapter 14: A Glimpse at the Stage beyond the Intellect
Chapter 15: The Inability to Comprehend God's Knowledge
Chapter 16: True Faith
Chapter 17: The Intellect's Proper Place
Chapter 18: The Stage beyond the Intellect and Premises
Chapter 19: The Inner Eye
Chapter 20: Longing for God
Chapter 21: Familiarity with the Spiritual World
Chapter 22: The Stage of Prophecy
Chapter 23: Faith in the Unseen
Chapter 24: The Path to Faith in Prophecy
Chapter 25: The Stage beyond the Intellect and the Divine Attributes
Chapter 26: The Intellect's Relationship to Love
Chapter 27: The Lover's Attraction to the Beloved
Chapter 28: The Last Stage of the Intellect
Chapter 29: "The Incapacity to Perceive Is Perception"
Chapter 30: A Transition
Chapter 31: God's Essence and Attributes
Chapter 32: The Divine Essence and Its Standpoints
Chapter 33: The Way of the Righteous Predecessors
Chapter 34: Scriptural Evidence
Chapter 35: The Divine Attributes Are Relations
Chapter 36: Nonduality
Chapter 37: A Note on the Eternity of the World
Chapter 38: Divine Causation
Chapter 39: The True Nature of Causation
Chapter 40: An Example Using Natural Phenomena
Chapter 41: The Oneness of Existence and Causation
Chapter 42: An Example Using Mirrors
Chapter 43: The Mirror of the Intellect
Chapter 44: The Forms in Mirrors Are Relations
Chapter 45: A Note on the Limits of the Intellect
Chapter 46: Mirrors and the State of Dreaming
Chapter 47: Divine Power and Human Power
Chapter 48: The Possible and the Impossible
Chapter 49: Possibility Means Contingency
Chapter 50: The Creation of the World and Time
Chapter 51: Clarifications on the Term "World"
Chapter 52: The Eternity of the World in the Eyes of the Recognizer
Chapter 53: Do "Was" and "Is" Apply to God?
Chapter 54: God's Beginninglessness and Time
Chapter 55: A Hint at Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 56: Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 57: Divine Withness
Chapter 58: A Note on Cosmic Order
Chapter 59: Witnessing Perpetual Renewal
Chapter 60: God's Coextensiveness in the Eyes of the Recognizer.
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