Sufi narratives of intimacy : Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality - Shaikh, Sa'diyya. (New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-265) and indexes.
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Keywords: Ibn al-ʻArabī, -- 1165-1240 -- Criticism and interpretation; Anthropology of religion -- Islamic Empire; Women in Islam