William C. Chittick is professor of Persian Languages at Stony Brook University, New York. He is the author and translator of twenty-five books and one hundred articles on Islamic thought, Sufism, Shi'ism, and Persian literature.
INTRODUCTION
Ibn 'Arabi's Life
Abbreviations Used in the Text
1 THE MUHAMMADAN INHERITANCE
Inheritance
Opening
The Muhammadan Seal
Reading the Qur'an
Understanding God
Knowing Self
God's Wide Earth
The Inheritor
2 THE LOVER OF GOD
Assuming the Traits of the Names
The Divine and Human Form
Imperfect Love
3 THE DIVINE ROOTS OF LOVE
Wujud
The Nonexistent Beloved
The Entities
The Genesis of Love
Love's Throne
Human Love
Felicity
Poverty
Perfection
4 THE COSMOLOGY OF REMEMBRANCE
Remembrance
Prophecy
The Book of the Soul
The Breath of the All-Merciful
Knowledge of the Names
All-Comprehensiveness
Achieving the Status of Adam
The Perfect Servant
The House of God
5 KNOWLEDGE AND REALIZATION
Knowledge
Benefit
The Form of God
Reliable Knowledge
Following Authority
Realization
The Ambiguity of Creation
Giving Things their Haqq
The Rights of God and Man
The Soul's Haqq
6 TIME, SPACE, AND THE OBJECTIVITY OF ETHICAL NORMS
The Methodology of Realization
Time and Space
Location
Time
Eternity
Constant Transformation
Ethics
Lost in the Cosmos
7 THE IN-BETWEEN
Relativity
The Worldview of In-Betweenness
Cosmic Imagination
The Soul
The Soul's Root
Controversies
The Gods of Belief
8 THE DISCLOSURE OF THE INTERVENING IMAGE
Self-Awareness
Death
Love
9 THE HERMENEUTICS OF MERCY
Interpreting the Qur'an
Good Opinions of God
The Return to the All-Merciful
The Mercy of Wujud
Mercy's Precedence
Essential Servanthood
Primordial Nature
Sweet Torment
Constitutional Diversity
Surrender
Resources
Index
