Zargar, Cyrus Ali.

Sufi aesthetics : beauty, love, and the human form in the writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi / Cyrus Ali Zargar. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages). - Studies in comparative religion .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Perception according to Ibn 'Arabi: God in forms -- Perception according to 'Iraqi: witnessing and divine self-love -- Beauty according to Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi: that which causes love -- Ibn 'Arabi and human beauty: the school of passionate love -- 'Iraqi and the tradition of love, witnessing, and shahidbazi -- The amorous lyric as mystical language: union of the sacred and profane.

An approach to understanding Muslim mystics as perceiving divine beauty and human beauty as one reality.



9781611171839




.AIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? --Criticism and interpretation.


Sufism--Doctrines.
Aesthetics.
Perception (Philosophy)


Electronic Books.

BP189 / .S845 2011