Sufi narratives of intimacy :

Shaikh, Sa'diyya.

Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality / Sa'diyya Shaikh. - New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2013. - xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-265) and indexes.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales of contention: Muslim gender imaginaries -- 1. Craving completion: Sufism, subjectivity, and gender before Ibn 'Arabī -- 2. Charting Ibn 'Arabī's religious anthropology -- 3. Mysticism and gender: a hermeneutic of experience -- 4. Reading gender and metaphor in Ibn 'Arabī's cosmos -- 5. The poetics and politics of Adam and Eve -- 6. Witnessing God in women: a different story of creation -- 7. Ibn 'Arabī and Islamic feminism -- Appendix: selected poems from the Dīwān Ibn 'Arabī -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9788121512558

PJ7755.I175 / Z92 2012

297.4092