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Print version: Ebstein, Michael ; Mysticism and philosophy in al-Andalus, Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration, Translation and Dates; Introduction ; Al-Andalus; Ismā'īlīs, Fātịmīs and Andalusīs ; From Ibn Masarra to Ibn al-ʿArabī; Religion, Politics, Science: Developments and Setbacksin Modern Scholarship; Terminology and Typology; Some Notes on the Sources; 1The Word of God and the Divine Will ; The Hellenistic Heritage and the Quranic Background; The Arabic Neoplatonic Tradition; The Ismā'īlī Tradition ; Ismā'īlī Mythical Writings ; The Eastern Neoplatonists; Ikhwān al-Sạfā' ; The Andalusī Mystics; Ibn Masarra; Ibn al-'Arabī, The Divine Command in Sacred Human History and in ReligionIsmā'īlī Literature; Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-'Arabī ; Ta'yīd; The Jewish Context; 2Letters ; Common Conceptions Regarding the Letters; The Letters as the Building Blocks of the Universe; The Letters and the Four Natures; The Notion of Parallel Worlds and the Letters; The Letters and the Friends of God; The Letters as Signs Indicating the Friends of God; The Letters as a Means of Communication between the Upper Worlds and the Friends of God ; Common Techniques, Conclusion: Letter Speculations in Islam-between Sufism and the Shi'i-Ismā'īlī Tradition 3The Friends of God ; The Hierarchy of the Friends of God; From the Hadīth to Ibn al-'Arabī; The Hierarchy of the Awliyā'and the Notion of Parallel Worlds ; The Universal and Divine Aspects of the Hierarchal Worldview; The Divine Origin of the Friends of God and their Supreme Source; The Mythical Foundation in the Hadīth ; The Awliyā'and the Names of God ; The Neoplatonic Context; 4The Perfect Man:From Shi'i Sectarianism to Universal Humanism ; The Neoplatonic Background; The Essence of Human Perfection, The Arabic Root j.m.'. 'Alā Sūratihi ; The Perfect Man as a Microcosm; Cosmic Mediation; Khalīfa; The Identity of the Perfect Man; 5Parallel Worlds ; Microcosm-Macrocosm; Common Themes and their Distinct Treatment in Ismā'īlī Literature ; The Human Organism: From the Kingdom of the Imām to the Kingdom of Man ; Man, the Book and the Universe; Shi'i-Ismā'īlī Motifs ; The Hermeneutics of Reality; Mystical Ascension; 6Conclusion ; Bibliography; Index

Print version, Acknowledgments; Introduction: Secrets in Humanist, Mystical, and Evangelical Literature; Chapter 1 Secrets between Philosophy, Biblical Interpretation, and Literature: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/9-1536); Chapter 2 Mysticism and Aesthetics in French Evangelical Humanism (1450-1536); Chapter 3 Mystical and Courtly Secrets: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549); Chapter 4 Evangelical Secrecy and Courtly News: The Heptameron (1559); Conclusion: Secrecy and Covers between Literature, Philosophy, and Theology; Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works; Index

Print version: Prodan, Sarah Rolfe, 1978- ; Michelangelo's Christian mysticism, Introduction -- PART I: MICHAELANGELO AND RENAISSANCE AUGUSTINIANISM -- "The Sea, the Mountain, and the Fire with the Sword": An Augustinian Pilgrimage? -- "The Sea": The Vicissitudes of Inordinate Love, or Hell as Habit -- "The Mountain": Acedia and the Mind's Preseumption to Ascend -- "The Fire with the Sword": Grace and Divine Presence -- Conclusion -- PART II: MICHAELANGELO AND VITERBAN SPIRITUALITY -- The Benefit of Christ -- The Action of the Spirit -- Michaelangelo's Viterban Poetics -- Aesthetics, Reform, and Viterban Sociability -- Conclusion