Gregory A Lipton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory A Lipton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipton |
| SIGNATURE | LIPTON G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi
For over a century, Euro-American scholars and esotericists alike have heralded the thirteenth-century Spanish mystic Ibn ‘Arabi (d. 1240) as the premodern Sufi theorist of inclusive religious universalism who claimed all contemporaneous religions as equally valid beyond the religio-political divide of medieval exclusivism. Rethinking Ibn ‘Arabi calls into question this Western image of Ibn ‘Arabi and throws into relief how his discourse is insep…
De-Semitizing Ibn ʿArabī
Commonly taken to be based upon the metaphysics of the Andalusian Sufi Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240), Frithjof Schuon’s Perennialist doctrine of “the transcendent unity of religions” posits a timeless truth underlying all so-called orthodox religious forms. Yet this article argues that rather than a transhistorical message of inclusive unity, Schuon’s Perennialism is a hegemonic discourse of authenticity built upon presuppositions founded within what Léon…
Ibn ‘Arabi and the Contemporary West
Although the thought of the Andalusian Sufi Muhyi al-Din ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240) has become increasingly popular in the West during the last century,only very recently has there been any attempt to analyze his contemporary reception.Isobel Jeffery-Street’s recent study on Ibn ‘Arabi in the West – withits dual focus on the Beshara School “for the study of esoteric education” andthe Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society – offers a fecund starting place for such…
Secular Sufism
Secular Sufism
Ibn ‘Arabi and the Contemporary West
Although the thought of the Andalusian Sufi Muhyi al-Din ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240) has become increasingly popular in the West during the last century,only very recently has there been any attempt to analyze his contemporary reception.Isobel Jeffery-Street’s recent study on Ibn ‘Arabi in the West – withits dual focus on the Beshara School “for the study of esoteric education” andthe Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society – offers a fecund starting place for such…
De-Semitizing Ibn ʿArabī
Commonly taken to be based upon the metaphysics of the Andalusian Sufi Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240), Frithjof Schuon’s Perennialist doctrine of “the transcendent unity of religions” posits a timeless truth underlying all so-called orthodox religious forms. Yet this article argues that rather than a transhistorical message of inclusive unity, Schuon’s Perennialism is a hegemonic discourse of authenticity built upon presuppositions founded within what Léon…
Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi
For over a century, Euro-American scholars and esotericists alike have heralded the thirteenth-century Spanish mystic Ibn ‘Arabi (d. 1240) as the premodern Sufi theorist of inclusive religious universalism who claimed all contemporaneous religions as equally valid beyond the religio-political divide of medieval exclusivism. Rethinking Ibn ‘Arabi calls into question this Western image of Ibn ‘Arabi and throws into relief how his discourse is insep…
Islam (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Sufism (3 works)