Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism (Suny Series in Islam) - Softcover

Ra¿i¿, Dunja

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438496885 ISBN 13: 9781438496887

Verlag: SUNY Press, 2024

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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 (qar¿n, pl. quran¿¿), 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. Müy¿ al-D¿n Ibn ¿Arab¿ (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 ¿Arab¿'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 ¿Arab¿ 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 ¿Arab¿'s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension, predestination, and the human relationship to the Divine.

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Dunja Rasic 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.

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• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1438496885
• ISBN 13: 9781438496887
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
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