Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Contents 5
2. Philosophy and Mysticism in the Islamic World 1
3. On the Limits of the Sayable and their Overcoming by ʻLanguage Gamesʼ in the Thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Islamic Mystical Philosophers of the 11th and 12th Centuries 11
4. Traces of philosophical thinking in twelfth and thirteenth-Century moderate Sufism? 41
5. Die Philosophie der Mystik: Das Konzept der waqfa bei an-Niffarī und das Problem der Artikulation mystischer Einheitserfahrung 59
6. Al-Ghazālīs Lehre von der besten aller möglichen Welten: ein Fall von Philosophie und/oder Sufismus? 93
7. Paradise Paths: Text, Authority, Philosophy and the Mystic Impulse in the Munqidh of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (450 – 505/1058 – 1111) and the Vida of Teresa de Jesús (1515 – 1582) 113
8. “They Have Not Smelled the Perfume of Existence”: Real Essences (aʿyān ṯābita) in Post-Avicennan Philosophical Sufism 133
9. The Philosophical Nature of Mystical Knowledge Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Examination of the Debate on the Eternity of the World in Islamic Intellectual History 153
10. Ǧāmī und Avicenna 191
11. The Source of Origination (manshaʾ al-ikhtirāʿ) instead of the Source of Abstraction (manshaʾ al-intizāʿ) 203
12. Index of Authors
13. Index of Subjects