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Title: | Ibn Arabi in the people's assembly: religion, press, and politics in Sadat's Egypt |
Author: | Homerin, Th. Emil |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Middle East Journal |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 462-477 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | Sufism censorship |
External link: | http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1290722117 |
Abstract: | Discussion of the February 15, 1979, resolution of the Egyptian General Assembly to ban the writings of the Islamic mystic Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), especially his 'al-Futuhat al-Makkiya' (The Meccan Revelations). The resolution, which clearly was supported by the government, would undergo heavy fire from both religious scholars and secularists as they jumped to defend intellectual and religious freedoms against institutional control. The Ibn Arabi controversy was officially resolved on March 9, when the secretary general of the Academy of Islamic Research and the grand Shaykh of the Sufi orders, who had been asked by the Assembly to render a decision on Ibn Arabi, answered that all works which were part of the Islamic heritage must not be censored or suppressed. Notes, ref. |