The Nightfolk

Ibn 'Arabi Behind the Veil of Night

Dunja Rasic (Autor)

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244 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520422612 (ISBN)

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This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī behind the veil of the night. There, Ibn ʿArabī first came face to face with advanced and morally ambiguous spiritual practitioners known as the Nightfolk.

In The Nightfolk, Duja Rašić offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the once-widespread beliefs about the night and its people in Muslim cultures and societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary source materials, Rašić traces these beliefs from their origins in the seventh century to their most prominent form in the thirteenth-century works of Ibn ʿArabī. Re-examining common notions of spiritual authority, ascension, self-isolation, moral choice, and transgression in Muslim cultures and societies, The Nightfolk is a crucial read for those interested in philosophical Sufism and Ibn ʿArabī’s attempts to bridge the gap between the visible world and the realms of the unseen.

Dunja Rašić is a Sufi scholar and author of The Written World of God and Bedeviled.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Transcription and Transliteration System
List of Symbols and Abbreviations

Introduction
The Topic
The Sources
The Chapters
1. The Luminous Darkness
The First Night
The Dominion of the Unseen
The Dark Light
2. The Night and Its People
The Nightfolk in Islamic Religious Literature
The Nightfolk in Akbarian Sufism
Among the Second-Best Friends of God
The Poles of the Nightfolk
Ascetics
Ascenders
The Blackened Imam
3. Behind the Veil of the Night
Supererogatory Acts of Worship
Night Vigils
Prayers in the Night
Spiritual Retreats of the Nightfolk
Conclusion

Appendix A. Innovative and Recurring Elements of Ibn ʿArabī's Writings on the Nightfolk
Appendix B. Qurʾanic Verses, Hadith, and Sayings
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	20 b-w figures, 2 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9780520422612 / 9780520422612
Zustand	Neuware