ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
0
vikramjain@sanctumbooks.com
×
x
x
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
x
ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
Home:
Subjects:
Islam & Sufism
Religion & Philosophy
Literature & Poetry
Middle Eastern Studies
x
Front Cover
Back Cover
The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan
Authors:
ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (author)
,
Yousef Casewit (translator)
,
Philippa Byrne (foreword)
,
Mohammed Rustom (editor)
Series:
Library of Arabic Literature
ISBN:
9789395474566
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
464
Size:
15 x 23 x 4 cm
Weight:
740 grams
Price:
INR
2995.00
About the Book
A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God.
The Divine Names
is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī,
The Divine Names
expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʾan, including The All-Merciful, The Powerful, The First, and The Last. In his treatment of each divine name, al-Tilimsānī synthesizes and compares the views of three influential earlier authors, al-Bayhaqī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn Barrajān.Al-Tilimsānī famously described his two teachers Ibn al-ʿArabī and al-Qūnawī as a “philosophizing mystic” and a “mysticizing philosopher,” respectively. Picking up their mantle, al-Tilimsānī merges mysticism and philosophy, combining the tenets of Akbarī Sufism with the technical language of Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Avicennan philosophy as he explains his logic in a rigorous and concise way. Unlike Ibn al-ʿArabī, his overarching concern is not to examine the names as correspondences between God and creation, but to demonstrate how the names overlap at every level of cosmic existence.
The Divine Names
shows how a broad range of competing theological and philosophical interpretations can all contain elements of the truth.
About the Authors
ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī
ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291) was a North African scholar and Sufi poet who studied under the influential Andalusian mystic Ibn al-ʿArabī. He is the author of several commentaries, the most important of which is
The Divine Names
.
Yousef Casewit
Yousef Casewit is Associate Professor of Qurʾanic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of
The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century
.
Philippa Byrne
Philippa Byrne is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. She works on the rise of scholastic thought and the transformation of the classical tradition in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Mohammed Rustom
Mohammed Rustom is Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. An internationally recognized scholar whose works have been translated into over ten languages, he specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy, and Qurʾanic exegesis. He is author of
The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā Ṣadrā
and
Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt
; co-editor of
The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary
; and translator of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s
Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration
.
Editorial Reviews
“Al-Tilimsani’s eloquent and profound commentary on the Divine Names is a masterpiece of this important genre of Islamic theological literature, bridging theoretical and practical discussions and containing brilliant accounts of the nature of language, humanity, the cosmos, the Divine, and the various relationships amongst them. Casewit’s lucid translations convey the compelling combination of intellectual depth and aesthetic beauty that characterizes the original work. In addition to providing important contextualization for the work, Casewit’s book is the first major study of ʿAfif al-Din al-Tilimsani in English, introducing this profoundly original Sufi thinker, poet, and student of Ibn al-ʿArabi to a general audience.”
—Oludamini Ogunnaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Thought, UVA
“The near-total neglect in modern Western scholarship of [al-Tilimsānī] is as baffling as it is regrettable. . . . With his new edition and translation of [The Divine Names], Yousef Casewit has therefore rendered a major service to the field of Islamic Studies and the broader reading public alike.”
—
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies
Customer Reviews
Books of related interest
The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical...
The Rules of Logic
The Book of Monasteries
In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems
The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of th...
Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
The Doctors’ Dinner Party
Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirat...
Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt an...
A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poet...
Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire: The Writin...
A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poet...
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popu...
The Failure of Islamic Modernism?: Syed Ameer Ali&...
Indian Poetics (Kavya Śastra) and Narratology Towa...
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movemen...
Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in...
Myth and History in Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid...
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Lit...
Kings and Dervishes: Sufi World Renunciation and t...
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction: A Cl...
Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encou...
Becoming Poets: The Asian English experience
Sacred Matters, Stately Concerns: Faith and Politi...
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals...
Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third Worl...
Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and ...
Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, a...
India in Translation through Hindi Literature: A P...
Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and...
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writ...
Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethic...
Women and Contemporary World Literature: Power, Fr...
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature...
Self-Transcendence and Prosociality
Defining the Indefinable: Delimiting Hindi
The Concept of Man in the Advaita Vedanta of Sanka...
The Culture Shocks of Rudyard Kipling (American Un...
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World Histor...
The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient...
Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Character...
The Rule of Four: Four Essays on the Principle of ...
Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and L...
R.K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
The Lion's Roar: Actualizing Buddhism in Daily...
Translation and the Accommodation of Diversity: In...
Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy
Ethnicity and Tribal Theology: Problems and Prospe...
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at th...
The Role of the Petrine Ministry in the Ecumenical...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
Confronting Fear in Faith: A Psycho-Pastoral Appro...
The Spirit Lives: A Personal Journey from Loss to ...
D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Medita...
Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journali...
Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms: Essays on Ge...
Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion a...
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytell...
Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultan...
Tracing the Contours of the Unseen: Sufi Poetry, M...
The Purāṇic Condition: Textual Identity, Transform...
Religion, Society and Economics: Eastern and Weste...
Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Int...
Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and C...
Requiem for a Lightning Bolt
Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile: The Lord’s Hint of Laughter ...
Sufis and Sharīʿa: The Forgotten School of Mercy
Cartografia religiosa- Religiose Kartographie- Car...
A Mandala of Words: Cultural Realities in the Poem...
The Divine Body in History: A comparative study of...
Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. ...
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels ...
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Univers...
The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Str...
Martin Luther on Social and Political Issues: - Hi...
Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South Indi...
The Life of Shariʿa: A Comparative Anthropology of...
Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri La...
Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of ...
The Prophetic Novel
Sinister Yogis
Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in...
The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the B...
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and...
Narayan: A Study in Transcendence (Studies of Worl...
Youth Violence and Pastoral Care: Pastoral Respons...
Studies in Logic: A Dialogue between the East and ...
Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial...
Research as Praxis: Democratizing Education Episte...
Re/Membering Place
The Center of the World: A Global History of the P...
Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journali...
Ethnic Identity and Christianity: A Socio-Historic...
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the...
Release from Life – Release in Life: Indian Perspe...
Research as Praxis: Democratizing Education Episte...
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work ...
Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to ...
The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative I...
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India...
The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and...
The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
The Other Jesus: Christology in Asian Perspective
The Global Vision: Karl Jaspers
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, a...
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern Sout...
Yoga and Phenomenology on Consciousness
Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities: Essays...
Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative: Interdiscip...
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star: A New Religious...
The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great E...
Locating Hybridity: Creole, Identities and Body Po...
The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cros...
Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas
Towards a Relevant Christology in India Today: An ...
Anti-Christian Violence in India
ADD REVIEW
Review Title
Review
Reviewer Name
Email