Love with Roozbehan, Baqli and Ibn Arabi; With emphasis on the status of women
Subject Areas : Nameh Elahiyat
Zahra Kushki
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PhD student in Religions and Mysticism, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Insha' Allah Rahmati
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Professor, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
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Keywords: woman, Sufism, Real love, Virtual love, Ibn Arabi, Roozbehaneh Baqli,
Abstract :
Abstract"Love" as a challenging category has been the concern of many Muslim mystics, including Roozbehan and Ibn Arabi. In addition, this word has always been associated with the female sex as a mistress. This connection seems stronger in the opinions of the two mystics than the others. The importance of the issue of love from the point of view of Roozbehan and Ibn Arabi, emphasizing the role of women, is due to the fact that both mystics had innovative and somewhat different views on love and women from other Sufi elders. This is what makes this issue "controversial" and readable. In this regard, the authors, through phenomenological studies, have explored the circumstances and views of these two characters about women and chaste human love. How these two mystics interpret love and its types, as well as the status of women in their minds, are questions that have been tried to be answered. After studying the opinions of Sheikh Shatah and Sheikh Akbar, it has been concluded that for all of them, virtual love is not just a training ground or a ladder and a path to true love, but chaste human love is a radius of the spark of divine love and along and in line with It is counted. Moreover, both mystics believe that understanding the eternal beauty of God and tasting the love of God, only by paying attention to the "manifestations" of that eternal truth in the forms of creatures, especially the highest of them, namely man, especially woman, with All aspects of his existence, including physicality and spirituality, are possible. It is in this direction that woman and chaste human love find a special place in the life and thought of these two in comparison with the opinions of other great Sufis.
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