Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction/Unsaying 1: Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus 2: The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena 3: Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event 4: Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form5: Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete 6: Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth 7: Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender...
Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction/Unsaying 1: Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus 2: The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena 3: Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event 4: Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form5: Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete 6: Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth 7: Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender...
This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.