Ali Karjoo-Ravary
Biographic Data
| ID | 10095109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Karjoo-Ravary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Karjoo-Ravary |
| SIGNATURE | KARJOO-RAVARY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7372-6190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mapping the Unseen
This paper examines a series of sequential cosmological and eschatological maps drawn by Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) in his second recension of al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi 1845+). These images, drawn from the visual language of the rational sciences, map the images of revelation into the cosmology of the day so as to show the vastness of God’s cosmos and the limits of the intellect. Ibn al-ʿArabī, aware of the limits of …
Adorning the King of Islam
I've adorned a garden of delight from which friends can pick flowers whose fresh blossoms, with every breath, perfume the lovers' senses.Neither freeze nor hail will cause it to wilt; nor the winds of autumn bring its leaves to fall.With this poem, the fourteenth-century historiographer ʿAzīz ibn Ardashīr al-Astarābādī concluded a nearly eight-hundred-page history of his patron's reign. 1 While the literary adornment of such a text has a measure …
From the Remainder of Adam’s Clay
This article presents an introduction to and a complete English translation of the eighth chapter of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) magnum opus al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya . The chapter, entitled, “On the earth that was made from the remainder of Adam’s leaven clay, which is the Earth of Reality, and on some of the strange and wondrous things contained therein,” contains a description of a world wholly separate from our own. An underlying argument in t…
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From the Remainder of Adam’s Clay
This article presents an introduction to and a complete English translation of the eighth chapter of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) magnum opus al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya . The chapter, entitled, “On the earth that was made from the remainder of Adam’s leaven clay, which is the Earth of Reality, and on some of the strange and wondrous things contained therein,” contains a description of a world wholly separate from our own. An underlying argument in t…
Adorning the King of Islam
I've adorned a garden of delight from which friends can pick flowers whose fresh blossoms, with every breath, perfume the lovers' senses.Neither freeze nor hail will cause it to wilt; nor the winds of autumn bring its leaves to fall.With this poem, the fourteenth-century historiographer ʿAzīz ibn Ardashīr al-Astarābādī concluded a nearly eight-hundred-page history of his patron's reign. 1 While the literary adornment of such a text has a measure …
Mapping the Unseen
This paper examines a series of sequential cosmological and eschatological maps drawn by Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) in his second recension of al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi 1845+). These images, drawn from the visual language of the rational sciences, map the images of revelation into the cosmology of the day so as to show the vastness of God’s cosmos and the limits of the intellect. Ibn al-ʿArabī, aware of the limits of …
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