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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Tales of Contention 1 Muslim Gender Imaginaries Chapter 1 Craving Completion 35 Sufism, Subjectivity, and Gender before Ibn ʿArabī Chapter 2 Charting Ibn ʿArabī’s Religious Anthropology 61 Chapter 3 Mysticism and Gender 95 A Hermeneutic of Experience Chapter 4 Reading Gender and Metaphor in Ibn ʿArabī’s Cosmos 113 Chapter 5 The Poetics and Politics of Adam and Eve 141 Chapter 6 Witnessing God in Women 173 A Different Story of Creation Chapter 7 Ibn ʿArabī and Islamic Feminism 203 Appendix: Selected Poems from the Dīwān Ibn ʿArabī 229 Notes 233 Bibliography 255 Index of Qurʾānic Verses 267 Index of Traditions (Aḥadīth) 269 General Index 271 This page intentionally left blank ...

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