Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /
Shaikh, Sa'diyya.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī -- 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology -- 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos -- 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Anthropology of religion
Women in Islam.