دانلود کتاب Alone with the Alone: Crative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ʼArabi

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Alone with the Alone
Contents
List of Plates
Preface, by Harold Bloom
INTRODUCTION
1. Between Andalusia and Iran: A Brief Spiritual Topography
2. The Curve and Symbols of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Life
At Averroes’ Funeral
The Pilgrim to the Orient
The Disciple of Khidr
His Maturity and the Completion of His Work
3. The Situation of Esoterism
PART ONE SYMPATHY AND THEOPATHY
I. Divine Passion and Compassion
1. The Prayer of the Heliotrope
2. The ‘‘Pathetic God’”’
3. Of Unio Mystica as Unio Sympathetica
II. Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica
1. The Sophianic Poem of a Fedele d’amore
2. The Dialectic of Love
3. The Creative Feminine
PART TWO CREATIVE IMAGINATION AND CREATIVE PRAYER
Prologue
III. The Creation as Theophany
1. The Creative Imagination as Theophany, or the ‘God from Whom All Being Is Created”’
2. The God Manifested by the Theophanic Imagination
3. The ‘‘God Created in the Faiths’’
4. The Recurrence of Creation
5. The Twofold Dimension of Beings
IV. Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart
1. The Field of the Imagination
2. The Heart as a Subtile Organ
3. The Science of the Heart
V. Man’s Prayer and God’s Prayer
1. The Method of Theophanic Prayer
2. Homologations
3. The Secret of the Divine Responses
VI. The ‘‘Form of God”’
1. The Hadith of the Vision
2. Around the Mystic Ka‘aba
Epilogue
Notes and Appendices
List of Works Cited
Index
List of Plates
FRONTISPIECE The Image of the Ka‘aba.
1 Elijah and Khidr at the Fountain of Life
2 Joseph and His Brothers in Egypt
3 The Philoxeny of Abraham
4 Three Angels Offering Three Cups to the Prophet