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The Mystical Intellect: Ibn ʿArabī, Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, and the Architecture of Islamic Epistemology
The Mystical Intellect is a scholarly study of Ibn ?Arabi and his monumental work, Al-Futu?at al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Openings), exploring how the great Andalusian mystic reshaped the architecture of Islamic epistemology. Moving beyond the familiar divide between reason and revelation, this book examines how knowledge, intellect, and spiritual unveiling (kashf) intertwine within the Akbarian tradition. Drawing on classical Sufi sources and contemporary philosophical inquiry, the author traces how Ibn ?Arabi understood the intellect not merely as a faculty of logic but as a mirror capable of receiving divine self-disclosure.
The result is a fresh reading of Islamic theology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of knowledge, one that speaks to both specialists and thoughtful general readers. The sixth volume in the KBA13 Insight Series, this work situates Ibn ?Arabi's thought within the wider intellectual heritage of the Nusantara world and the global conversation on mysticism, reason, and the nature of understanding. It invites readers to reconsider what it means to know, to contemplate, and to seek wisdom at the meeting point of the mind and the heart.
The result is a fresh reading of Islamic theology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of knowledge, one that speaks to both specialists and thoughtful general readers. The sixth volume in the KBA13 Insight Series, this work situates Ibn ?Arabi's thought within the wider intellectual heritage of the Nusantara world and the global conversation on mysticism, reason, and the nature of understanding. It invites readers to reconsider what it means to know, to contemplate, and to seek wisdom at the meeting point of the mind and the heart.
