عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA124969
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Following
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Steffen Stelzer
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Recent studies of Islamic mysticism have unearthed and developed the central role of "imagination" in Sufism and mystical philosophy. This has been done in conscious contrast to the perceived "degradation of the image" in Western thought. Imagination is said to be both a cosmological and a noetic realm in the midst of a hierarchy of universes that mark, at the same time, different stations on the initiatory path of human beings on their way to God. Into these well laid-out plans of worlds and images, my paper introduces a component that is found very rarely in these studies and occurs, rather, in Islamic hagiographic texts about the lives of Saints or the "Friends of God" (awliya'). This component is the motive of "following," or obedience to the Prophet (sequela prophetae). In one particular account of a meeting of two "Friends of God," reference is made to the incapacity of imagination to contain-i.e. to imagine-one of them. The remedy for this incapacity is, strangely enough, expressed by a word (imtathala) which itself contains the element of imagination and means "obedience." The sequela prophetae appears, thus, not as an addition to imagination, something like its guide, but as a way of imagining that is unthought."
SET
Date of Publication
2008
Physical description
343-355
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
12/1
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Art History
Subject Term
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
Subject Term
ESCHATOLOGY
Subject Term
General
Subject Term
History
Subject Term
IMAGINATION
Subject Term
OBEDIENCE
Subject Term
PROPHETS
Subject Term
Religious Studies
Subject Term
RUMI
Subject Term
SUFISM
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Steffen Stelzer
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/156852908X271123
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Electronic name
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[Article]
275578
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