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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…
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…
Święty Głupiec jako szczególny przejaw duchowości w religiach Księgi
2017
Fenomen Świętego Głupca jest jednym ze szczególnych przejawów duchowości, wspólnym dla religii abrahamowych. Dogłębna analiza korzeni i różnych egzemplifikacji tego zjawiska (prorok, jurodiwy i sufi), jakiej dokonano w artykule, pozwoli szerzej poznać opisywaną postać, a także, przynajmniej częściowo, zmienić negatywne skojarzenia, jakie przywodzi na myśl głupota sama w sobie. Wyjątkowość Świętego Głupca może być przyczynkiem do refleksji na temat miejsca człowieka wyobcowanego w społeczeństwie, oddziaływania i łamania tabu oraz uświadomienia sobie wspólnych źródeł wielkich religii, o których ich walczący wyznawcy zdają się zapominać.
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…