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Tables of Contents for The Sufi Path of Knowledge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
The Life and Works of Ibn al-`Arabi
x
The Meccan Openings
xii
Koranic Hermeneutics
xv
The Study of Ibn al-`Arabi in the West
xvi
The Present Work
xx
Overview
1
30
The Divine Presence
3
28
Finding God
3
1
Worlds and Presences
4
2
Being and Nonexistence
6
2
The Divine Attributes
8
3
The Divine Acts
11
1
The Macrocosm
12
4
The Microcosm
16
2
Cosmic Dynamics
18
1
The Return to God
19
2
Assuming the Traits of God
21
1
Theomorphic Ethics
22
4
The Scale of the Law
26
2
Seeing Things as They Are
28
2
Human Perfection
30
1
Theology
31
46
The Names of God
33
14
Names, Attributes, and Relationships
33
1
The Names of the Names
34
1
Relationships
35
1
The Two Denotations of the Names
36
1
Realities, Roots, and Supports
37
2
Properties and Effects
39
2
The Names of Engendered Existence
41
3
Secondary Causes
44
3
The Divine Roots of Hierarchy and Conflict
47
12
Hierarchy in the Names
47
4
Ranking in Degrees
51
1
The Names Personified
52
2
The Divine Conflict
54
2
The Unity of the Essence
56
2
Names of Incomparability and Names of Acts
58
1
The Essence and the Divinity
59
18
The Divinity
59
3
The Unknowability of the Essence
62
2
The Independence of the Essence
64
2
The Name ``Allah''
66
1
The Disputes of the Angels
67
1
Incomparability and Similarity
68
2
Incomparability
70
2
Similarity
72
1
Combining Incomparability and Similarity
73
4
Ontology
77
68
Existence and Nonexistence
79
17
Being/Existence and the Existent: Wujud and Mawjud
80
1
Possible Things
81
2
Entities
83
5
Things
88
1
Loci of Mani-festation
89
2
Self-Disclosure and Receptivity
91
3
Oneness of Being and Effects of the Names
94
2
The New Creation
96
16
Infinite Possibility
96
1
Perpetual Renewal
97
1
Divine Tasks
98
1
Breaking Habits
99
1
Transmutation and Transformation
99
4
Never-Repeating Self-Disclosures
103
2
Boredom
105
1
The Heart
106
3
Nondelimitation
109
3
Cosmic Imagination
112
13
He/Not He
113
2
Imagination
115
3
Dreams
118
3
The Manifestation of the Impossible
121
4
The Supreme Barzakh
125
20
The Cloud
125
2
The Breath of the All-Merciful
127
3
Relief Through Mercy
130
2
The Real Through Whom Creation Takes Place
132
2
The Universal Reality
134
5
Nature
139
6
Epistemology
145
46
Knowledge and the Knower
147
12
Knowledge and Knowledge
147
2
The Usefulness of Knowledge
149
4
Limits to Knowledge
153
3
The Infinity of Knowledge
156
3
Acquiring Knowledge
159
11
The Rational Faculty
159
3
Reflection
162
3
Consideration
165
1
Following Authority
166
2
Unveiling
168
2
The Scale of the Law
170
21
The Revealed Law
170
2
The Scale
172
2
Wisdom and Courtesy
174
5
The Scale of Reason
179
2
Affirming Similarity
181
5
Reactions to the Revelation of Similarity
186
5
Hermeneutics
191
62
Faith and Rational Interpretation
193
19
Faith
193
6
Interpretation
199
3
The Rational Thinkers
202
3
Acts of God and Acts of Man
205
7
Knowing God's Self-Disclosure
212
19
Finding Light
212
4
The Lights of Self-Disclosure
216
4
Naming the Perception of Light
220
5
Witnessing and Vision
225
6
Understanding the Koran
231
22
The Goal of Rational Inquiry
232
3
Reason versus Unveiling
235
4
The Character of Muhammad
239
3
The Context of the Koran
242
2
The Commentary of the Folk of Allah
244
2
Commentary by Allusion
246
4
Knowledge of Hadith
250
3
Soteriology
253
80
Weighing Self-Disclosure
255
19
Knowledge and Practice
256
2
The Inviolability of the Law
258
5
Spiritual States
263
7
Spiritual Mastery
270
4
Names and Stations
274
15
The Divine Form
275
3
The Stations of the Path
278
5
Assuming the Character Traits of God
283
3
Noble and Base Character Traits
286
3
Pitfalls of the Path
289
20
Good and Evil
290
1
The Two Commands
291
3
The Perfection of Imperfection
294
3
God's Conclusive Argument
297
4
The Straight Path
301
3
Nobility of Character
304
5
Safety in Servanthood
309
24
The Servant's Worship of his Lord
310
2
The Perils of Lordship
312
5
The Exaltation of Lowliness
317
4
The Perfect Servant
321
4
Worship Through Free Will Offerings
325
4
Obligations and Supererogations
329
4
Consummation
333
49
Transcending the Gods of Belief
335
21
The Roots of Belief
336
5
Worshiping God and Self
341
3
Knowing Self
344
2
Paths of Belief
346
3
Belief and the Law
349
3
The Belief of the Gnostic
352
2
Beatific Vision
354
2
Seeing with Two Eyes
356
26
Duality and the Signs of Unity
358
3
The Possessor of Two Eyes
361
3
Being With God Wherever You Are
364
2
Two Perfections
366
3
Serving the Divine Names
369
3
The People of Blame
372
3
The Station of No Station
375
7
Notes
382
32
Bibliography
414
5
Indexes
419