Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

by Sadiyya Shaikh

Book Overview

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi metaphysics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618907
• ISBN13: 9781469618906
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"