Sufi narratives of intimacy
Subtitle: Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality
By: Sa'diyya Shaikh
Series: Islamic civilization and Muslim networks; Islamic civilization & Muslim networks
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780807835333
Subjects: Anthropology of religion; Criticism and interpretation; Women in Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-265) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries; title: 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī; title: 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology; title: 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience; title: 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos; title: 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve; title: 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation; title: 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism; title: Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.