LUH 3417
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Well I think we agree on a lot more than once presumed. I am led to believe you think post modern academic writing is a bunch of babble and to some extent it is like the literary oroborous but I will say that baudrillard makes a strong case for why hiding the female form and playing with revealing it is much more beautiful than liberation ( in his book Seduction, which was introduced by a female professor).Re: Arabi, this is why female beauty is vitally important:
Female beauty is a central theme in Islam, which regards it as “the most direct visible manifestation of God's beauty, gentleness, mercy and forgiveness”. This theme is developed most famously in Islamic mysticism or Sufism. In her work The Mystical Dimensions of Islam, Annemarie Schimmel records the position of Ibn ʿArabī – who is generally regarded as the greatest Sufi – on “perceiving the divine through the medium of female beauty and seeing the female as the true revelation of God's mercy and creativity” as follows:
“The closing chapter of the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, that on the Prophet Muhammad, centers around the famous tradition according to which the Prophet was given a love for perfumes and women and joy in prayer. Thus, Ibn 'Arabī could defend the idea that 'love of women belongs to the perfection of the gnostics, for it is inherited from the Prophet and is a divine love' (R 480). Woman reveals, for Ibn Arabī, the secret of the compassionate God. The grammatical fact that the word dhāt, 'essence', is feminine offers Ibn Arabī different methods to discover this feminine element in God.” Women in Islam | Wikiwand
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Women_in_Islam
The best book ever written on sexual mysticism (my copy, which I read years ago, is highlighted with my comments and notes all over the place), is Julius Evola's The Metaphysics of Sex. Nothing better ever written on the topic, and he discusses Arabi's ideas about sacred, mystical sex.
I just got Sufism & Taoism and am excited to begin it.
What do you think about the notion that ISIS is an ex KGB and CIA product of pseudo Marxist revolutionaries radicalized to play out a worldwide terror game? I don’t think ISIS has anything to do with Islam, but I also think the name in and of itself (Egyptian Mother goddess) is a major sort of mockery.