The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn 'arabi - Couverture souple

Rasic, Dunja

 
9781905937684: The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn 'arabi
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1905937687 ISBN 13 : 9781905937684
Editeur : Anqa Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

This is the first systematic overview of the science of letters (ilm al-huruf) according to the great Andalusian spiritual master, scholar, poet and philosopher Ibn Arabi (d. 1240). Ibn Arabi defined the science of letters as familiarity with the building-blocks of the Quranic revelation and everything in the world of Nature. Letters are understood as visual and aural signs of pointing to the mysteries of existence. The present study examines how the universe came to be, for what purpose it as created and the hierarchical structure it is endowed with. It is an old story told anew -- through the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, their orthographic forms and the meanings attributed to them, utilising Ibn Arabis own diagrams. Although the story could be told through geometrical figures or numbers, letters were chosen on the basis of Ibn Arabis doctrine that the meanings carried by the letters fully encompasses the whole of existence: God and the universe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dunja Rasic (Ph.D) is a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. Her academic interests include the Islamic philosophy of language, the science of the letters and the philosophical and theological thought in the early Islamic Middle Ages.

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Éditeur
Anqa Publishing
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905937687
ISBN 13 
9781905937684
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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