The Nightfolk (eBook)

Ibn 'Arabi Behind the Veil of Night

Dunja Rasic (Autor)

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2025
244 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41727-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 13th-century thought • Beliefs • Cultural • esotericism • islamic mysticism • moral ambiguity • Nighttime • Philosophy • Practices • Religious History • spiritual realms • Teachings
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41727-5 / 0520417275
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41727-4 / 9780520417274