The imagery and metaphor of the shadow play is extended to the mirror, to speaking, and to writing. Letters and bodies have different shapes in order to reproduce projections of immense variation. Ibn al-ʿArabī describes spectra of sex and species, with categories separated by membranes (barāzikh). No two letters, bodies, or beings are the same, and so there is no normal curve. We look at two verses from the Qurʾān which Ibn al-ʿArabī uses to explore the deep hurt of the masculine and the deep hurt of the feminine.
Insights from (Muhyiddin) Ibn Arabi
with Dr. Eric Winkel
May 1st, 2020
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