O coração do si mesmo : identidade essencial no pensamento de Ibn Arabi

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The works of Ibn Arabi (1165AD) known as, Al-Sheikh Al-Akbar, the Greatest of the Masters, as well as his own person, are a reference in the mystical Muslim thought. His intense metaphysical experience added to his extremely pliable use of Arabic words and his deep rooting in Quranic revelation make of his work a unique experiment. Starting from the conception of unity-of-Being, Ibn Arabi understands the world as a theophanic-manifestation of this very Being and searches for the human subjectivity in its most intrinsic instance. The experience of Being is the experience of the sacred and only due to it - life and awareness are possible. This brings us to the problem of the One and the Many and to Identity as singularity and alterity (otherness). The notion of ex-niilo creation does not exist; but, a recurrent manifestation of Being in its similarity and incomparability gives existence to the multiplicity through its self-exposition of the aspects of its own Identity. The multiple never aggregates Being - nothing is like Him and nothing can be compared to Him. The diverse Names of this "Identity" name its infinite attributes and constitutes - by its inter-relationships - the "individuals in their uniqueness, which the Sheikh calls ayn thabitah - permanent identity - source of all the individual s potential-of-life, including the objective circumstances of his/her "way of being" in the world. This research is based on the aforementioned concept. With the Fusus al-Hikam (Bezels of Wisdom), Ibn Arabi s last book, as the basic reference along with incursions into the voluminous Futuhat al-Makkiya (Meccan Revelations) we can posit the notion of "essential-identity" and, following the Sheikh s advice, observe in daily-life. Consequently, we believe the work of Ibn Arabi has much more to offer to modern-life than in his own time.

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mysticism misticismo - islamismo filosofia oriental sufismo philosophy filosofia - dissertações sufism philosophy, oriental ibn al-arabai - 1165-1240 filosofia

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