{"product_id":"the-divine-names-9781479836031","title":"The Divine Names","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Sufi scholar's philosophical interpretation of the names of God\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Divine Names \u003c\/i\u003eis a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-\/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ?Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Names\u003c\/i\u003e expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qur?an, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine name, al-Tilimsani synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqi, al-Ghazali, and Ibn Barrajan.\u003cbr\u003eAl-Tilimsani famously described his two teachers Ibn al-?Arabi and al-Qunawi as a philosophizing mystic and a mysticizing philosopher, respectively. Picking up their mantle, al-Tilimsani merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbari Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn al-?Arabi, his overarching concern is not to examine the names as correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence. \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Names\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth.\u003cbr\u003eAn English-only edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040550650199,"sku":"9781479836031","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479836031.jpg?v=1750947086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-divine-names-9781479836031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}