Bedeviled - Dunja Rašić

Bedeviled

Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism

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Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9688-7 (ISBN)
31,80 inkl. MwSt
A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.
Ghouls, ifrits, and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies. These also include jinn doppelgangers (qarīn, pl. quranāʾ), the little-studied and much-feared denizens of the hearts and blood of humans. This book seeks out jinn doppelgangers in the Islamic normative tradition, philosophy, folklore, and Sufi literature, with special emphasis on Akbarian Sufism.

Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) wrote on jinn in substantial detail, uncovering the physiognomy, culture, and behavior of this unseen species. Akbarians believed that the good God assigned each human with an evil doppelganger. Ibn ʿArabī’s reasoning as to why this was the case mirrors his attempts to expound the problem of evil in Islamic religious philosophy. No other Sufi, Ibn ʿArabī claimed, ever managed to get to the heart of this matter before him. As well as offering the reader knowledge and safety from evil, Ibn ʿArabī’s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension, predestination, and the human relationship to the Divine.

Dunja Rašić is a researcher at the University of Religions and Denominations, in Qom, Iran. She is the author of The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn ʿArabī.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Transcription and Transliteration System

1. Neither of the East, nor of the West

2. Signs on the Horizons

3. The Devil Within

4. The Red Death

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Islam
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 19
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 1-4384-9688-5 / 1438496885
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9688-7 / 9781438496887
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