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Il calamo dell’esistenza. La corrispondenza epistolare tra Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī e Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī
2019
Uno degli esempi più signifi cativi dei frutti prodotti dal confronto aperto tra un sufi ed un fi losofo è la corrispondenza tenutasi nel XIII secolo tra Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (m. 1274) e Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (m. 1274), il primo discepolo diretto e fi glio adottivo dello šayḫ al-akbar Ibn al-‘Arabī, il secondo seguace e commentatore di Avicenna. Soggetto centrale del dibattito è l’analisi dell’essere in tutte le sue molteplici determinazioni e manifestazioni: la realtà di Dio, l’essere generale e comune, la sostanza e la materia, l’unità e la molteplicità, la natura dell’anima, del corpo, delle forze celesti, il dolore e la gioia spirituale, l’emanazione, il finito e l’infinito. Tutti i que…
Les enseignements mystiques de la nature dans le Kašf al-asrār ‘an ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa al-azhār (Le Dévoilement des mystères que recèlent les sages par…
2022
The Kašf al-asrār is a mystical literature work of the Mamluk author Ibn Ġānim al-Maqdisī (d. 1279). It consists of an introduction and thirty-seven chapters, called išārāt, in which flowers and animals present mystical teachings to the narrator. Building on the analysis of the introduction and some chapters of the work, this study aims to show the formal characteristics of the text, its relations with the munāẓara genre, as well as the mystical meanings it contains and the particular role that nature occupies within the work. Nature, indeed, is not here the symbol of a theophany rather it shares the same condition of pain of the human being due to separation from God. Throughout the differ…
Le vie (turuq) di Allahtra XIII e XIV secolo
2011
Qunawi: the disciple son.
2022
Abū al-Ma‘ālī Sadr al-Dīn Muhammad b. Ishāq al-Qūnawī was born in Konya in 605/1209 and died in 673/1274. The influence that Ibn al-‘Arabī exerted on Qūnawī was decisive and the shaykh al-akbar reserved this intense education and this particular training exclusively for him, perhaps precisely because the task of his spiritual heir and interpreter had already been “foreseen”. In this intervention we will trace one of the fundamental points of Qūnawī’s thought, relying on the first epistle of the correspondence that focuses precisely on the question of the relationship between philosophical knowledge and divine illumination, a question that is found throughout the work of our Sufi and that it…
Akbarian Scepticism in Islam : Qūnawī's Sceptical Arguments from Relativity and Disagreement
2021
This study deals with the sceptical arguments by one of the most important figures in the philosophical Sufi tradition (the Akbarian school) and the foremost disciple of Ibn ʿArabī, Ṣadr al‐Dīn al‐Qūnawī. Though not a sceptic in the strict sense, Qūnawī employs sceptical arguments from relativity of rational knowledge and disagreement among philosophers to prove inefficacy of reason and rational procedures of knowledge in terms of achieving certain knowledge of metaphysical matters, namely of God and the ultimate principles of things. The paper questions Qūnawī's implicit assumption that, if there is disagreement on a proposition p, then p is relative and thus cannot provide certain knowled…