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Purusa Treading the Razor

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1) The Self in the Katha Upanisad.

2) The Self in Classical Sufism

3) Interim Statement: the Self on the Border between God and Humankind

4) Ibn ‘ArabI: the Human Person as barzah

5) India: the Self as Sacrifice of Love

6) On the Razor’s Edge: Results and Perspectives

7) Final Note: the Search for the Self in Modern Occidental Literature

Appendix 1

Ibn lArabI in Indonesia

Appendix II

Islamic Mysticism according to Texts by al-Gunayd

– About the Dying in God (kitab al-fana)

– About the Original Pact (kitab al-mitaq)

– About the Difference between Devotion and Strict

Lifestyle (kitab fi l-farq bayna l-ihlas wa s-sidq)

– About the Confession of God’s Unity (bah ahar fi /-

tauhid)

– Additional Question (masala uhra)

– Additional Question (mas ala uhra)

– Additional Question (mas ala uhra)

Appendix III

Katha Upanisad

Bibliography

Index

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Description

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE SERIES
This series attempts to facilitate an effective and fruitful dialogue between religions. Most of the material at the source level is intended for anyone who is interested in purposeful dialogue across religions. The essays and articles have been prepared by various scholars in their respective fields.
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TITLES IN THE SERIES

Book 1 Prayer and Contemplation

Ed: Cletus M. Vadakkekara

This book comprises 18 scholarly papers, each one unfolding a specific realm of spirituality, and affords the richness of the Christian Patristic as well as various Hindu traditions. ISBN 81-7495-026-5

Divine Grace and Human Response Ed: Cletus M. Vadakkekara

The studies in this volume cover a wide range of teachings on Divine Grace from the Bible and the Fathers, and the main schools of Hindu thought, revealing an extraordinary degree of parallel doctrine in Christian and Hindu traditions. ISBN 81-7495-027-3
Book 2
The Sign Beyond Al! Signs

Christian Monasticism in Dialogue with India Ed: Canon Francis V. Tiso This book on monastic themes continues the kind of creative conversation as the previous volumes do, and is offered as a paradigm of the struggle to arrive at deeper inter-religious understanding. ISBN 81-7495-019-2

Book 4 Purusa: Treading the Razor’s Edge Toward Selfhood

The Self and Self-Experience in Islamic and Hindu Mysticism Thomas Mooren

Thomas Mooren, born in 1947 in Dortmund-Kurl, is Professor of History of Religions and Missiology at the Institute of Mission Studies at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ont. (Canada), member of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Ottawa, and Guest-Professor of Islamology in Trichur and Janampet, India. He is also an active member of the European 7 Academy of Science and Arts. Prof. Mooren, who has studied Theology, the History of Religions and Anthropology, as well as Arabic, Indonesian and Sanskrit, has published numerous studies on missiology, Islamic monotheism, and the dialogue with the non-Christian religions. He is one of the authors of On the Border—The otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions, Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris (Lang) 1994._

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