How Long to Read Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi

How Long Does it Take to Read Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi by Gregory A. Lipton

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Description

The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn `Arabi, Gregory Lipton calls this image into question and throws into relief how Ibn `Arabi's discourse is inseparably intertwined with the absolutist vision of his own religious milieu--that is, the triumphant claim that Islam fulfilled, superseded, and therefore abrogated all previous revealed religions. Lipton juxtaposes Ibn `Arabi's absolutist conception with the later reception of his ideas, exploring how they have been read, appropriated, and universalized within the reigning interpretive field of Perennial Philosophy in the study of Sufism. The contours that surface through this comparative analysis trace the discursive practices that inform Ibn `Arabi's Western reception back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century study of "authentic" religion, where European ethno-racial superiority was wielded against the Semitic Other-both Jewish and Muslim. Lipton argues that supersessionist models of exclusivism are buried under contemporary Western constructions of religious authenticity in ways that ironically mirror Ibn `Arabi's medieval absolutism.

How long is Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi?

Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi by Gregory A. Lipton is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi aloud.

What Reading Level is Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi?

Rethinking Ibn 'Arabi is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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