Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity: A Comparative Study of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Meister Eckhart
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations July 3, 2023 Mark Sedgwick
new and successful attempt to answer an old question. The two best-known
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations
ISSN 0959-6410
3 papers in the library · 39 citations · publishing 2015-2023
Papers
Hidden or Forbidden, Elected or Rejected: Sufism as ‘Islamic Esotericism’?
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations February 19, 2018 Simon Sorgenfrei 16 citations
The article analyses the background of a popular conception of Sufism as equivalent to ‘Islamic esotericism’ by tracing two different but sometimes confluent currents: reifications of Sufism within Western romanticist and modern environments, and the approach to it in Islamic reformist movements. A further aim is to nuance and problematize such understandings, making use of examples from both...
Comparative Mysticism and the Problem of Interpretation: Rumi and Meister Eckhart
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations March 17, 2015 Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh 23 citations
Since the second half of the nineteenth century, modern comparative studies of mysticism have generally adopted one of two divergent approaches. One group, generally labeled as essentialist or phenomenologist, has used comparative methodology in order to highlight the commonalities between different mystics or mystical traditions, hence establishing universal structures and essential meanings...
DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2015.1018721 (opens in new tab)
Mysticism
Interpretation philosophy
Epistemology
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