Creation and the Timeless Order of Things: Essays in Islamic Mystical PhilosophyBrings together Toshihiko Izutsu's most important essays on Islamic mystical philosophy. Though primarily concerned with Iranian mystics and philosophers, this penetrating group of essays displays Izutsu's unique insights in comparative philosophy by comparing and contrasting Islamic Sufism and philosophy with Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Archetypal Psychology and modern Existentialism fluent in over 30 languages, Izutsu's comparative research is based on careful reading of original texts in Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Pall, Sanskrit, Greek, and Japanese. The studies in this volume explore the deep structures of mystical insight and experience. |
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The Paradox of Light and Darkness in | 38 |
An an analysis of wahdat alwujud | 66 |
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abso absolute Reality accident actualized ahadiyah annihilation appears Ash'arites aspect Averroes Avicenna Ayn al-Qudát baqa basic bi-shart Brahman called cognition concept consciousness context dimension divine Dôgen domain beyond reason domain of reason Eastern philosophies empirical world ence essential everything existential existentialists experience eyes fact faná Gulshan-e Hamadání Haydar Ámulí Henry Corbin human Ibid Ibn Arabí inner articulations Iranian Iranian philosophy Islamic metaphysics Islamic philosophy khalq knowledge Láhíjí light and darkness linguistic means metaphor metaphysical mountain Mystery mystic nature non-existence nothingness núr object ontological ordinary paradox of light particular peculiar perpetual creation phenomenal forms phenomenal things phenomenal world philosophical position pre-eternity problem quiddities Qur'anic rational reality of existence reference relation self-manifestation self-subsistent semantic sense Shabastarí spiritual stage structure Sufi Sufism tajalli Taoism taqallub temporal thinkers thinking timeless tion unity of existence veil vision wahdat al-wujúd wáhidiyah word world of multiplicity wujud Zubdat