Self, Other and Nothingness in Western Philosophy and in Islamic Mysticism
Sharing Poetic Expressions: 2011 Chryssi Sidiropoulou
This chapter explores Kenan Gürsoy’s attempted comparison between Islamic mysticism (tasavvuf) and twentieth century French existentialism. Kenan Gürsoy is a contemporary Turkish thinker whose recent book entitled Etik ve Tasavvuf (English: Ethics and Tasavvuf ) explores similarities as well as differences between the two perspectives mentioned above. The present chapter is a sympathetic...
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Ultimate reality
Philosophical investigation
Existentialist critique
Cartesian dualism
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