عنوان

Transcending the feminine: Negotiating gender in the mysticism of Ibn Al-'Arabī and Francis of Assisi

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TL48222

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Transcending the feminine: Negotiating gender in the mysticism of Ibn Al-'Arabī and Francis of Assisi

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Norma J. DaCrema

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Blankinship, Khalid

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Temple University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

256

Text of Note

Committee members: Alpert, Rebecca; Bregman, Lucy; Goldblatt, Eli

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-74538-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religion

Body granting the degree

Temple University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

Explorations of how 'the feminine' functions in the systematic mystical theology of Ibn al-'Arabī (1165-1240) begin, in English, with Reynold Nicholson's early 20th century analysis of Tarjumān al-Ashwāq and extend through the work of dozens of scholars since then, most notably Henry Corbin, Toshihiko Izutsu, William Chittick, Sachiko Murata and Sa'diyya Shaikh. (Of course, one could argue that such studies in Arabic reach back as far as his foremost disciple al-Qunawi, and his foremost critic, Ibn Tamiyya. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) shares with the Shaykh a general historical context as well as a famously passionate devotion to mystical practice as a strategy for achieving proximity to God. He, too, has engendered scholarly interest in his attitude toward women and the feminine as intrinsic to making that ascent, and not just among his earliest hagiographers, but through hundreds of interpreters since, most recently André Vauchez and Jacques Dalarun. Yet, despite generations of scholarship on that point, a comparative study of these two mystics has yet to be published. 'Transcending the Feminine: Negotiations of Gender in the Mysticism of Ibn al-'Arabī and Francis of Assisi' endeavors to fill that gap, and in so doing to unpack the distinctive aspects of the saint's and the Shaykh's mystical approaches, demonstrating intersections as well as departure points.

Religious history

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Christianity;Francis;Ibn al-arabi;Islam

Cummings, Lindsey

Blankinship, Khalid

Subdivision

Religion

Temple University

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1683143324; 3702981

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276903

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