What is it about?
Who is happy among the human beings? Is he the one God bestows on him happiness or one who makes his efforts to reach the stage of happiness. Here, two approaches are introduced to the reader.
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Why is it important?
The Sufi author Ibn al-Arabi develops two contradicting notions, the first is mystical and the second is philosophic.
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Since I wrote several articles dealing with religion versus philosophy, and a book on traditionalism rationalism in Islamic theology, Ibn al-Arabi fascinates me, because his thought is not only includes traditionalist and rationalist, but also mystical ideas.
בנימין Binyamin אברהמוב Abrahamov
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This page is a summary of: Happiness (Saʿāda) in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Thought, November 2023, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682450_015.
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