Exitus and Reditus: Towards a New Islamic Neoplatonic Paradigm

This article is a revised version of “Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind” (which first appeared in Yasir Suleiman (ed), Living Islamic History, Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and is published in Sacred Web with the kind permission of Edinbugh University Press and the author.As for Edinburgh University Press edn. in Y.Suleiman(ed.), Living Islamic Histor

Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux

This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the 21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It examines the mutually constitutive relationship between conceptions of literal territorial boundaries and the figurative boundaries of the subject that ventures across borders in Africa. The border is seen as a liminal zone which paradoxically separates and joins spaces. Accounts of border crossings in travel writing from different periods suggest the historicity and cultural specificity of conceptions of geographical borders, and the way they index the “boundaries” of the subjects who cross them. Tracing the transformations in these conceptions of literal and metaphorical borders allows one to chart the emergence of the dominant contemporary idea of “Africa” as the inscrutable, savage continent

Muslim kebatinan : Pengantar untuk memahami pemikiran neoplatonis; persaudaraan kesucian

Yogyakartaxvii, 180 p.; 21 c

Al-Farabi And His School

xii, 128 hlm, ilus; 21,5 c