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Sufi Vocabulary, but Avicennan Philosophy: The Sufi Terminology in Chapters VIII–X of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Išārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt
Ist Teil von
Oriens, 2019-05, Vol.47 (1/2), p.145-196
Ort / Verlag
Brill
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the more than 125 years since A.F. Mehren included Chapters VIII–X of al-Išārāt wal-tanbīhāt in his anthology of Ibn Sīnā’s allegedly mystical treatises, scholars have used the presence of Sufi vocabulary in these chapters as evidence of Ibn Sīnā’s mysticism. Yet, his use of Sufi terminology has received little dedicated, critical study. Through careful philological analysis, this study demonstrates that even though Ibn Sīnā appropriated technical vocabulary from Sufism, the meanings that he applied to those terms agree with his philosophical system. His use of these terms is not evidence of experimentation with a mystical, suprarational method of cognition.