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Sufi Narratives of Intimacy - (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) by Sa'diyya Shaikh (Paperback)
About the Book
Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
Book Synopsis
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic epistemology, Shaikh attends to the ways in which Sufi metaphysics and theology might allow for fundamental shifts in Islamic gender ethics and legal formulations, addressing wide-ranging contemporary challenges including questions of women's rights in marriage and divorce, the politics of veiling, and women's leadership of ritual prayer.
Shaikh deftly deconstructs traditional binaries between the spiritual and the political, private conceptions of spiritual development and public notions of social justice, and the realms of inner refinement and those of communal virtue. Drawing on the treasured works of Sufism, Shaikh raises a number of critical questions about the nature of self
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Sa&#;diyya Shaikh, Ph.D.
Project
Gender, Sufi Motive and Communal Justice
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Shaikh, Sa'diyya. "In Search of Al-Insān: Sufism, Islamic Law and Gender." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77, no. 4 ():
In Search of al-Insān: Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender Sa‘diyya Shaikh This paper suggests that Sufism offers contemporary Islamic feminists valuable resources to creatively rethink dominant understandings of gender within Islamic law. Foregrounding the integral relationship between Sufism and jurisprudence, I critically explore some of the gendered ontological assumptions informing traditional approaches to law and ethics. I envision how feminist approaches to the law might be enriched through engaging with particular Sufi readings of human nature and purpose. An approach to the law that is nurtured in the soil of Islamic spirituality, I argue, offers more than simple gender equality. It fosters a more holistic vision of community, one that facilitates the process of human spiritual refinement—a refinement to which gender equality is absolutely intrinsic. SUBMISSION TO GOD is the ultimate point of Islamic law. Hence, Islamic jurisprudence is primarily about the search for God’s law. A fundamental dimension of such an inquiry concerns understandings of the God–human relationship, conceptions of the nature of God, of human nature,