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Jesus Son of Mary in the Quran and According to the Teachings of Ibn Arabi
The book is in ten chapters, the first 7 dealing with a detailed analysis of the characteristics of Islam: universality, unity, shahada, salawat, and then proceeding with the discussion on Jesus, Mary and the Christians in the Qur’an, with commentaries of each relevant chapter of the Qur’an, verse by verse. Chapters 8-10 deal with relevant extracts from Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-hikam and Futuhat al-makkiyya on John the Baptist, Zachariah, the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus, and Mary. The book is concluded by a detailed documentation of the chronology of the pertinent Qur’anic verses and side comments.
- GenresIslam
432 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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November 2, 2020
A huge disappointment. Gloton has simply reproduced passages from the Quran with an explanation and analysis of the Arabic of the verses. None of which is unavailable to anyone with accessto the internet. When he does try to display scholarship he comes up short. A notable example being his analysis of verse 6 in Surah Saff when it is written that Jesus foretold the coming of Muhammad (PBUH).
In the Gospel of John, Jesus tells of the coming of the Comforter. The Greek word for Muhammad is Periclytos. The Greek word for Comforter is Paracletos. So I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that Paracletos could have been substituted for Periclytos. Gloton however discounts this by saying 'It is impossible to admit the demand that Jesus makes of his Father should concern the Prophet of Islam...The only convincing lesson for understanding this word that Jesus pronounced is that he did utter it but we have not yet discovered the Gospel so we not scriptural proof of this declaration.' A bizarre statement.
The final fifty pages are perhaps the only part of the book worth reading for the passages in which Ibn Arabi advances his own theories about Jesus. As is always the case with Ibn Arabi, deciphering the opaque text is difficult and time-consuming.
Not worth the money I paid for the insight I gained.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus tells of the coming of the Comforter. The Greek word for Muhammad is Periclytos. The Greek word for Comforter is Paracletos. So I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that Paracletos could have been substituted for Periclytos. Gloton however discounts this by saying 'It is impossible to admit the demand that Jesus makes of his Father should concern the Prophet of Islam...The only convincing lesson for understanding this word that Jesus pronounced is that he did utter it but we have not yet discovered the Gospel so we not scriptural proof of this declaration.' A bizarre statement.
The final fifty pages are perhaps the only part of the book worth reading for the passages in which Ibn Arabi advances his own theories about Jesus. As is always the case with Ibn Arabi, deciphering the opaque text is difficult and time-consuming.
Not worth the money I paid for the insight I gained.
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