AlTilimsn, aff AlDn
The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Quran (Library of Arabic Literature)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781479826124
- author:
- AlTilimsn, aff AlDn
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- New York University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 300
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15.8 x 6.1 centimetres (1
- Genre:
- Professional & Vocational, Fiction & Literature, Literary Collections,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Divine Names is a philosophical interpretation of the names of God, penned by ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, a seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet. This work explores the one hundred and forty-six names of God as described in the Qurʾan, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, and The First. Al-Tilimsānī synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn Barrajān, to present a rigorous and concise explanation of his logic. In The Divine Names, al-Tilimsānī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbarī Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy. He demonstrates how the names of God overlap at every level of cosmic existence, showing how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth. This bilingual Arabic-English edition provides a unique insight into the philosophical and theological debates of the medieval Islamic world.
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