EXISTENCE AND THE FALL
Subtitle: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam
Publisher: ICAS PRESS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
Table of contents: title: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam; label: Translator’s Preface
title: vi; label: Chapter 1 – Introductory
title: 1; label: Unitive Anthropology
title: 1; label: Scientific Anthropology
title: 2; label: Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology
title: 3; label: Classical Philosophical Anthropology
title: 5; label: Mythological Anthropology
title: 6; label: Dimensions of the Fall
title: 7; label: Ascent and Rise
title: 9; label: History of the Fall
title: 10; label: Chapter 2 – Unseen and Visible
title: 12; label: Realms of Knowledge
title: 12; label: Religious and Worldly Perspectives
title: 15; label: TawÎÐdÐ  Exposition
title: 18; label: The Stages of Descent
title: 21; label: The Stages of Ascent
title: 23; label: The Stages of the World
title: 24; label: Seven Heavens
title: 27; label: Two Motions
title: 30; label: Chapter 3 – Descent and Manifestation
title: 33; label: Manifestation  versus Displacement
title: 33; label: Continued Presence
title: 38; label: Limiting, Not Limited
title: 40; label: Manifestation of Unity
title: 41; label: Comprehensive Distinction
title: 44; label: Absolute Unity
title: 47; label: Descension and Emanation
title: 51; label: Illuminationist Relations
title: 53; label: Chapter 4 – Ascent and Felicity
title: 60; label: One-way Distance
title: 60; label: A Journey of Enlightenment
title: 64; label: Understanding Unity
title: 69; label: Awareness of Reality
title: 74; label: Seeing the Face of God
title: 77; label: Direct Knowledge
title: 80; label: Effort and Action
title: 85; label: Social Order
title: 90; label: Chapter 5 – Love and Passion
title: 97; label: Man’s Beloved
title: 97; label: Modern Man
title: 100; label: Philosophical Man
title: 105; label: Critique of the Philosophical Perspective
title: 109; label: True Beloved
title: 112; label: The Inner Chamber
title: 116; label: Virtual Love
title: 120; label: Mirage of Love
title: 124; label: Chapter 6 – Mythological Fall
title: 128; label: The First Veil
title: 128; label: Veils of Darkness
title: 131; label: A Return or An Escape
title: 134; label: Myth and Polytheism
title: 136; label: Topography of Polytheism
title: 140; label: The History of Myth
title: 143; label: The Death of Myth
title: 145; label: Monotheism and Polytheism
title: 148; label: Chapter 7 – Alienation
title: 152; label: Renaissance and Rebirth
title: 152; label: Rationalism and the Enlightenment
title: 154; label: From Myth to Ideology
title: 157; label: Empiricism and Scepticism
title: 159; label: Humanism and Pharaonism
title: 162; label: Liberalism
title: 166; label: The People’s State
title: 170; label: World in Limbo
title: 173; label: Endnotes
title: 177; label: Glossary of Terms
title: 188; label: Index
title: 193