The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn ?arabi

Rasic, Dunja

ISBN 10: 1905937687 / ISBN 13: 9781905937684

Verlag: Anqa Pub, 2022

Beschreibung

240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __1905937687

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Written World of God: The Cosmic Script and the Art of Ibn ?arabi
• Verlag: Anqa Pub
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1905937687
• ISBN-13: 9781905937684
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dunja Rasic (D.Phil) is a Serbian scholar and a research fellow at the university of Belgrade. Her expertise is in topics related to the Islamic philosophy of language, palaeography and Sufism. Also, I hold the position of a lecturer at the University of Belgrade.