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Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought
Peter Coates
Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought deals with some of the findings of modern philosophy, social science and psychology, in an open discourse between the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the scientific, the industrial and the personal. It is an invitation to reconsider some of the central and defining ideas of modernity in the light of Ibn 'Arabi's writings on the Unity of Existence.
In these global times it is a curious and pertinent fact that the life and writings of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, which constitute one of the most penetrating and extraordinary metaphysical and spiritual teachings the world has ever known, still remain relatively unknown and undiscussed in the Western theoretical architecture of the twenty-first century.
What is perhaps unexpected is not only the modern ring of much of his thought, but also its ability to reconceptualise modernity's own self-descriptions and understandings, and to bring out hitherto unnoticed features of its landscape.
Ibn 'Arabi's remarks on causality, time, contingency, necessity, epistemology, ontology, ethics and aesthetics alone would entice even the most wary of modernity's intellectual authorities.
This ground-breaking book includes extensive notes, bibliography, and name and subject indexes.
Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought will appeal to academics and students in the fields of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, as well as readers with an academic and/or personal interest in Ibn 'Arabi.
The author
Until his retirement Peter Coates was Senior Lecturer
in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, UK, where
he taught courses in the philosophy of psychology. He has been studying
the works of Ibn 'Arabi for over 20 years.
Book details
203 pages, 234 x 156 mm
Hardback ISBN: 0 9534513 6 4
Paperback ISBN: 0 9534513 7 2
Published: 2002
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