The Nightfolk
Ibn 'Arabi Behind the Veil of Night
$142.15
- Hardcover
244 pages
- Release Date
22 November 2025
Summary
This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi philosopher Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī behind the veil of the night. There, Ibn ʿArabī first came face to face with advanced and morally ambiguous spiritual practitioners known as the Nightfolk.
In The Nightfolk, Duja Rašić offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the once-widespread beliefs about the night and its people in Muslim cultures and societies. Drawing on a wealth of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520422612 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0520422619 |
| Author: | Dunja Rasic |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 244 |
| Release Date: | 22 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“The Nightfolk is an original, carefully researched and intellectually demanding work. Its strengths lie in its meticulous engagement with primary sources, its refusal of reductive interpretations and its willingness to dwell in conceptual ambiguity…. It is a valuable and thought-provoking contribution that will likely shape future discussions of the night, sanctity and moral ambiguity in Islamic studies.”
* The Muslim World Review *“The Nightfolk would also appeal to people interested in philosophy and how different times and societies dealt with the limits of knowledge. Ibn Arabi offers a case study of the creative ways philosophers, poets and sufi scholars try to navigate these limits and find ways to expand human knowledge.”
* Middle East Monitor *About The Author
Dunja Rasic
Dunja Rašić is a Sufi scholar and author of The Written World of God and Bedeviled.
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