The Self-Disclosure of God () von William C. Chittick

Introduction

Knowledge of the Cosmos

Ibn Basic Themes

The Principles of£ Ibn Cosmology

The Breath of the All-Merciful

Cosmic Language

The Translator's Dilemmas

A Note on Format

I. God and the Cosmos

1. Wujud and the Entities

Signs, Marks, and Proofs

Selves and Horizons

Wujud

From Chapter 73: The One Hundred and Third Question

Causality

God's Knowledge

Chapter 475: God's Waymarks

Chapter 411: The Precedent Book

God's Form

The Nonexistent Entities

From Chapter 463: The Third Pole

Chapter 493: New Arrival

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Lights

The Entities and the Names

Chapter 406: Nothing Has Become Manifest

Chapter 451: The Stairs

Thingness of Fixity

2. Perpetual Self-Disclosure

Creation

From Chapter 73: The Thirtieth Question

From Chapter 558: The Presence of the Creation and the Command

Self-Disclosure

Unending Renewal

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Bringing Back

Infinity

From Chapter 198: The All-Merciful Breath

Chapter 524: God's Infinite Words

The One Entity

From Chapter 360: The Ninth Deputyship

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-First Tawhid

Bewilderment in the Many and the One

Chapter 507: Shame

Chapter 542: Blindness

Chapter 391: The Quick-Flowing Course

Chapter 430: Bewilderment in Arrival

From Chapter 369: Annihilation and Subsistence

Chapter 473: Your God Is One God

From Chapter 72: Trotting around the Kaabah

3. The Face of God

The Face

Perishment

Chapter 165: Realization

From Chapter 73: The Ninety-Seventh Question

Discerning the Face

From Chapter 351: Yielding

Chapter 527: Desiring the Face

The Veil

Chapter 254: The Curtain

Revelation

Chapter 384: Mutual Waystations

4. Veils of Light

The Veil of Self

Occasions

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-Fifth Tawhid 127/From Chapter 198: The Third-Second Tawhid

The Identity of the Veil and the Face

From Chapter 370: The Path of Exaltation

Chapter 514: Trust in God

The Specific Face

From Chapter 198: Depending on What Falls Short

Witnessing the Specific Face

From Chapter 379: The Servant of the Praiseworthy

Chapter 265: The Arriver

Chapter 396: The Veils of Knowledge

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Teaching

Glories

Chapter 458: The Facial Glories

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Light

Chapter 100: The Station of Fear

Chapter 101: The Station of Abandoning Fear

II. The Order of the Worlds

5. The Roots of Order

The Unity of Manyness

Unity and Totality

The Even and the Odd

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Bringing Together

Ranking in Excellence

God's Choices

From Chapter 73: The Fifty-First Question

From Chapter 72: Eating the Forbidden

From Chapter 198: The Twenty-Third Tawhid

Order

From Chapter 360: The Sixth Deputyship

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of the Servant's Posteriority

6. Divine and Cosmic Relations

The First and the Last

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Firstness

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Lastness

The Manifest and the Nonmanifest

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Manifestation

From Chapter 558: The Presence of Nonmanifestation

Chapter 256: The Shining of the Full Moon

Witnessing the Nonmanifest

Chapter 472: Following the Most Beautiful

Chapter 400: Manifest Mercy

Chapter 394: Arrival through Courtesy

The Center and the Circumference

Chapter 410: The Circle of Mercy

Circles of Wujud

The Two Arcs

Chapter 427: Two Bows' Length

Modalities of Wujud

7. The Worlds of the Cosmos

Absent and Witnessed

Chapter 492: Knowledge of the Absent

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Nature

Command and Creation

Heaven and Earth

From Chapter 73: The Forty-Third Question

From Chapter 558: The Presence of the Food-Giver

Two and Three Worlds

From Chapter 69: On the Mysteries of the Night Salat

III. The Structure of the Mocrocosm

8. Spirits and Bodies

Self and Soul

Chapter 267: The Soul

The Divine Spirit

Governance

Chapter 447: Essential Governance

The Spirit from the Command

Chapter 268: The Casting of Knowledge

Bodies

Corporeous Bodies

The Rationally Speaking Soul

Chapter 216: The Subtlety

From Chapter 373: The Wisdom of the Inheritors

Chapter 397: The Soul's Ascent

9. The Natural Constitution

Spirit and Nature

Chapter 225: Increases

The Light of Guidance

From Chapter 71: Fasting on Sunday

Chapter 418: Understanding

From Chapter 73: The Twelfth Question

Chapter 52: Weakness

Constitution

From Chapter 558: The Presence of All-Embracingness

10. The Imaginal Barzakh

Imagination

Appetite

Imagination and Understanding

Bodies Forever

From Chapter 360: The Tenth Deputyship

The Trumpet

Chapter 302: The Spirit's Subsistence

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of the Final Issue

From Chapter 369: The Storehouse of Humanity

From Chapter 198: The Real Situation

Appendix I: Ibn Views on Certain Sufis

Appendix II: Translation of Technical Terms

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Sources

Index of Koranic Verses

Index of Hadiths and Sayings

Index of Proper Names

Index of Arabic Words

Index of Terms