Mullā Ṣadrā’s Arrivers in the Heart (al-Wāridāt al-Qalbiyya)

It is increasingly difficult after Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) to differentiate the aims of the Sufis from those of the philosophers. Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640) offers a fine example of a thinker who synthesized the Sufi and philosophical methodologies in his voluminous writings. In Arrivers in the Hea...

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Main Author: Chittick, William C. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 53-107
Further subjects:B Soul music
B Intellect
B Love
B wujūd
B maʿrifa
B Cosmology
B spiritual psychology
B Eschatology
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Summary:It is increasingly difficult after Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) to differentiate the aims of the Sufis from those of the philosophers. Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640) offers a fine example of a thinker who synthesized the Sufi and philosophical methodologies in his voluminous writings. In Arrivers in the Heart he combines the precision of philosophical reasoning with the recognition (maʿrifa) of God and self that was central to the concerns of the Sufi teachers. In forty “effusions” (fayḍ) of mostly rhymed prose, he provides epitomes of many of the themes that he addresses in his long books. These include the concept and reality of existence, the Divine Essence and Attributes, God’s omniscience, theodicy, eschatology, the worlds of the cosmos, spiritual psychology, divine and human love, disciplining the soul, and the nature of human perfection.
ISSN:2210-5956
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Sufi studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341328