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Zen and the Unspeakable God : Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience by Blum, Jason N.;Meister Eckhart;Huineng;Ibn al-ʿArabī;Ibn-al-ʻArabī, Muḥyi-'d-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn-ʻAlī is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Zen and the Unspeakable God : Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience about?

Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng

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Author
Blum, Jason N.;Meister Eckhart;Huineng;Ibn al-ʿArabī;Ibn-al-ʻArabī, Muḥyi-'d-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn-ʻAlī
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780271074696
Category
religious
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Christian
Updated
2026-03-25

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