Nightfolk

Ibn 'Arabi Behind the Veil of Night

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī behind the veil of the night. There, Ibn ʿArabī first came face to face with advanced and morally ambiguous spiritual practitioners known as the Nightfolk. In The Nightfolk, Duja Rašić offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the once-widespread beliefs about the night and its people in Muslim cultures and societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary source materials, Rašić traces these beliefs from their origins in the seventh century to their most prominent form in the thirteenth-century works of Ibn ʿArabī. Re-examining common notions of spiritual authority, ascension, self-isolation, moral choice, and transgression in Muslim cultures and societies, The Nightfolk is a crucial read for those interested in philosophical Sufism and Ibn ʿArabī’s attempts to bridge the gap between the visible world and the realms of the unseen.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-12
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520422612

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Koranen inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Dunja Rašić is a Sufi scholar and author of The Written World of God and Bedeviled.

Recensioner i media

“The Nightfolk is an original, carefully researched and intellectually demanding work. Its strengths lie in its meticulous engagement with primary sources, its refusal of reductive interpretations and its willingness to dwell in conceptual ambiguity…. It is a valuable and thought-provoking contribution that will likely shape future discussions of the night, sanctity and moral ambiguity in Islamic studies."

Innehållsförteckning

Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsTranscription and Transliteration SystemList of Symbols and Abbreviations IntroductionThe TopicThe SourcesThe Chapters1. The Luminous DarknessThe First NightThe Dominion of the UnseenThe Dark Light2. The Night and Its PeopleThe Nightfolk in Islamic Religious LiteratureThe Nightfolk in Akbarian SufismAmong the Second-Best Friends of GodThe Poles of the NightfolkAsceticsAscendersThe Blackened Imam3. Behind the Veil of the NightSupererogatory Acts of WorshipNight VigilsPrayers in the NightSpiritual Retreats of the NightfolkConclusion Appendix A. Innovative and Recurring Elements of Ibn ʿArabī's Writings on the NightfolkAppendix B. Qurʾanic Verses, Hadith, and SayingsNotesBibliographyIndex