Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism - Brossura

Libro 9 di 13: SUNY series in Islam

Raic, Dunja

 
9781438496887: Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism

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Ghouls, ifrits, and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies. These also include jinn doppelgangers (qarin, pl. qurana?), the little-studied and much-feared denizens of the hearts and blood of humans. This book seeks out jinn doppelgangers in the Islamic normative tradition, philosophy, folklore, and Sufi literature, with special emphasis on Akbarian Sufism.

Muh?yi al-Din Ibn ?Arabi (d. 1240) wrote on jinn in substantial detail, uncovering the physiognomy, culture, and behavior of this unseen species. Akbarians believed that the good God assigned each human with an evil doppelganger. Ibn ?Arabi’s reasoning as to why this was the case mirrors his attempts to expound the problem of evil in Islamic religious philosophy. No other Sufi, Ibn ?Arabi claimed, ever managed to get to the heart of this matter before him. As well as offering the reader knowledge and safety from evil, Ibn ?Arabi’s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension, predestination, and the human relationship to the Divine.

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Dunja Rašic is a researcher at the University of Religions and Denominations, in Qom, Iran. She is the author of The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn ?Arabi.

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9781438496894: Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism

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ISBN 10:  1438496893 ISBN 13:  9781438496894
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2024
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