Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /

Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shaikh, Sa'diyya
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:	Ibn al-ʻArabī, > 1165-1240 > Criticism and interpretation. Anthropology of religion > Islamic Empire. Women in Islam.
Classic Catalogue:	View this record in Classic Catalogue

Table of Contents:

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.