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Almirzanah, Syafaatun.

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When mystic masters meet: Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue.

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Title/Author:	When mystic masters meet: Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue./
Author:	Almirzanah, Syafaatun.
Description:	269 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4738.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3290014
ISBN:	9780549349754

When mystic masters meet: Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Almirzanah, Syafaatun.

When mystic masters meet: Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue. - 269 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4738.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 2008.

This dissertation is a study of the role mystical discourse and experience can play in Christian-Muslim dialogue as a subset of interfaith dialogue in general. It will concentrate on the work of two great medieval mystic masters, one Muslim, the other Christian. The Muslim is the Sufi teacher known to centuries of admirers as al-shaykh al-akbar or "The Greatest Master"---Muhyi al-Din Ibn al- &grave;Arabi. The Christian is the great German Dominican mystic and philosophical theologian whose status as "master" has become a part of his name---Meister Eckhart. The dissertation will begin by discussing the life and legacy of each mystic master, and then move on to identify a principal theme in each of their teachings that has significant implications for addressing issues of religious diversity and interfaith dialogue. It will then proceed to its main objective: placing the mystical discourse of these two masters in conversation with one another for the purposes of articulating "conversation points" between the two discourses which might serve as "nodes" for a possible new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue.

ISBN: 9780549349754Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

When mystic masters meet: Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
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520 $a This dissertation is a study of the role mystical discourse and experience can play in Christian-Muslim dialogue as a subset of interfaith dialogue in general. It will concentrate on the work of two great medieval mystic masters, one Muslim, the other Christian. The Muslim is the Sufi teacher known to centuries of admirers as al-shaykh al-akbar or "The Greatest Master"---Muhyi al-Din Ibn al- &grave;Arabi. The Christian is the great German Dominican mystic and philosophical theologian whose status as "master" has become a part of his name---Meister Eckhart. The dissertation will begin by discussing the life and legacy of each mystic master, and then move on to identify a principal theme in each of their teachings that has significant implications for addressing issues of religious diversity and interfaith dialogue. It will then proceed to its main objective: placing the mystical discourse of these two masters in conversation with one another for the purposes of articulating "conversation points" between the two discourses which might serve as "nodes" for a possible new matrix for Christian-Muslim dialogue.
520 $a The selection of Ibn al-`Arabi and Meister Eckhart was based, in part, on the fact that, although their greatness has been duly recognized, for several centuries each was forgotten by those outside the mystical schools of their traditions, and, to a significant degree, each was vilified as heretical by those who feared that their teachings posed a threat to their respective orthodoxies and orthopraxies. All in all, however, both demonstrate a thorough grounding in the mainstream thought and practice of their traditions. Yet they also both demonstrate a visionary boldness which impels them to attempt to broaden, renew and reconstruct the theological worldviews in which they steadfastly locate themselves. Both are also thinkers whose writings exhibit an intersection of some of the dominant mystical, theological, and philosophical discourses of their day. Finally, the work of both Ibn al-`Arabi and Meister Eckhart is so rooted in canonical scripture that at times they appear to be writing quranic and biblical commentaries.
520 $a The methodology of the project is an under-explored mode of comparative mysticism which brings into contextualized conversation with each other the thought and related experiences of Meister Eckhart and Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-`Arabi. The aim of this methodology is not to reduce or ignore important differences between the two mystics, but rather to identify the ways in which the teachings of each speak to the content, context, and experience of the other. The point here is not to argue that Rudolf Otto and others who followed him were right: that there is a common pre-linguistic experience of "the holy" at the core of all religions. This is a topic for an epistemological and philosophical discussion all its own.1 Rather, it is to suggest that the process of comparing ideas about any aspect of human experience, assumes a basis of commonality---however narrow---upon which a common discourse of analysis can be built.
520 $a The motivating premises of the research are three. First, because so much of Christian-Muslim dialogue gets "stuck" on irreconcilable theological propositions, a new matrix for the dialogue is necessary---ideally one that focuses on ways of looking at the cosmos that are rooted in distinctive and different, but nonetheless shared spiritual experiences. Second, many people in the world today---both Christians and Muslims---are becoming more disposed toward dialogue as a way of reducing conflict in our increasing number of "global villages." One obstacle in advancing the dialogue, however, is the alienation of practitioners from the rich intellectual resources of their respective traditions which can be drawn upon to legitimize, support, and encourage dialogue. Third, if practiced with intelligence, sincerity, and care, dialogue and encounter with people of other faiths can significantly enrich the identity of the religious individual as he or she articulates, in a pluralist context, just what it means to be a Muslim, a Christian, or the adherent of any other religious tradition. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
520 $a 1See the debate between the likes of Walter T. Stace (Mysticism and Philosophy, 1960) and Ninian Smart ("Understanding Religious Experience" in Katz, ed. Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, 1978) on the one hand, and Wayne Proudfoot (Religious Experience, 1985) and Steven Katz ("Language, Epistemology, and Mysticism" in his Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, 1978).
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