for Forms, 99–100, 102 against existence of relations, 93 against polytheism, 118, 122 Aristotle, 7, 22, 31–35, 39–41, 45–46, 52–53, 56, 84, 86, 90, 97, 99, 106, 156n19, 158n32, 160n65 Argument From The Sciences of, 99 contradiction in his thought, 45, 56 correspondence principle of, 35 philosophical authority of, 22 Arnaldez, Roger, 30 articulation (makhraj), 131 ascension (mi>råj), 131, 180n22 Ash>arites, 8, 33, 46, 74, 97, 157n21, 162n23, 173n28, 176n3 associators (mushrikin), 71 attitude, 73 attributes, 104, 111 barrier, 11, 75, 102. See also barzakh barzakh, 7, 12, 61, 75–78, 80–82, 84, 89, 90–92, 96–97, 102–3, 111, 128, 143–44, 152n2 Arabized, 11 definition of, 86 as differentiator/unifier, 7, 11–12 earthly, 81 Abadi, Avraham, 183n16 Abraham, 117–18, 122 Ab¥ Bakr (al-Íidd•q), 136 Ab¥ Zayd, Naßr, 76 act (activity) of defining, 87 God’s, 41, 78 of the Perfect Mover, 54 actuality vs. actualization, 54–55, 65, 167n16 actualization, of love, 114 Addas, Claude, 26, 68 Aeon (dahr), 95 >Aff•f•, Ab¥ al->Ilå , 5, 76 Affirmation, 125, 68 of similarity, 135 >Al•, >Abdullah, 76, 122 All-Merciful and barzakh, 76 Breath of, 130–31 Allah, 77, 93–94, 105, 117, 123, 127. See also God Alston, William, 14 antinomy, 8, 55, 151n27 antirepresentationalism, 20 argument, 12, 20, 31, 33–34, 37, 47–48 of Chuang Tzu, 124 Index grave as, 77 human being as, 116 Imagination as, 17 meanings embodied in, 79 paradoxical notion of, 11 Supreme, 108, 121, 124, 134 as undivided unity, 87, 90 World of, 11 bastard reason, 99, 101–2 beginning, 34, 47–49, 51, 55, 124 being, 70–71, 73, 82, 109, 114, 119, 124, 126 and becoming, 84 Parmenides’s theory of, 32 as ultimate reality, 31. See also existence bewilderment, 123 and regret, 126 Bohr, Neils, 151n28, 153n13 border, 145 boundaries, 63 breath of All-Merciful, 130–31 human, 131 Knowledge of, 60, 65 of Life, 66 Burrell, David, 30, 40, 50 Cairns, Huntington, 13, 83, 174n37 Carter, Michael, 15–18, 153n17 causality, 32, 83 causation and occasionalism, 36 priority of, 50 cause, 37, 46–47, 53, 50, 86, 100 center, 123 and Ka>ba, 118, 181n23 Chittick, William, 4–5, 7, 14, 44, 59– 61, 67–68, 73, 78, 98, 113, 120, 131, 133, 147, 155n63, 173n23 Chodkiewicz, Michel, 3 circle, 137 points on, 4 and time, 95, 107 Cloud (>amå’), 105 198 Index comparability, 73, 120, 135, 138 complementarity thesis, 8, 12, 107, 138, 151n28 comprehension, impossibility of, 136 configuration, 130, 135 of minds, 61 of perfect human being, 3–4 spiritual/natural, 115–17 consideration, 118, 180n22 continuity, 40, 114 between God and the world, 106 perspective of, 12 contradiction, 46, 150n16 and Ibn al->Arab•, 108 and Ibn Rushd, 107–8 Corbin, Henry, 11, 117 and history of religion, 25 as prophetic philosopher, 26 and religion after religion, 25, 27 correlation (munåsaba), 105, 110 correlatives, 47 correspondence, 19–20, 35, 129, 132 and Rorty, 22 cosmos, 98, 103, 110, 113 imaginal reality of, 68 knowledge of, 114 perpetual transmutation of, 65, 77 and Universal Reality, 104, covenant with the Lord, 115, 180n14 creation, 32, 121 and breathing, 61 continuous, 35, 54, 158n41 interpreted allegorically, 30 as meaningless act, 38 moment of, 122 nontemporal, 37 and Philoponus’s arguments, 34 renewal of, 78 tied to the Real, 130, 135 in Timaeus, 33, 84, 99–100 creation ex nihilo and Ibn Rushd, 165n77 irrational (illogical), 32, 53 as miracle, 32 in Qur’ån, 29, 32 [44.220.41.140] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 20:15 GMT) vagueness of, 30 creative imagination human drive for, 16 Knowledge of, 61 Creator, Qur’ånic paradigm of, 29 Cusanus, 136–38, 183n17, 184n25 death, 75, 77, 80–82 greater/lesser, 82 of Newscholasticism, 6 of philosophy, 154n28 definition, 2, 5, 39, 83, 103, 110 Aristotle’s theory of, 85 of barzakh, 87 and limit, 7, 56 of Real’s existence, 106 of relation, 93 desire, 116 deviation, 126 dialectic, 150n16 dialectical argument, 44 dialectical method, 22 dialectical process, 126 difference, 73, 88 challenge of, 25 perspective of, 12 Postmodernist emphasis on, 6 root of things, 23 social, 26 differentiation (farq, tafriqa), 65, 102 as lower dimension, 5 root of things, 87 dimension, 5, 15, 65, 140 determinate, 65 miraculous, 32 disclosure (self-), 14, 65, 78–79, 89, 91, 120, 126, 137 distance, pathos of, 22, 27 divine essence, 105 knowledge, 117, 140 love, 115...