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# **Philipp Valentini**

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### **Ibn ʿArabī’s Role in Ibrahim Niasse’s Thinking: From the Unity of Being to Muḥammad’s Names-of-the-Father**

Philipp Valentini examines Ibn ʿArabī’s several roles in Ibrāhīm Niasse’s metaphysics, from waḥdat al-wujūd to Muḥammadan paternity.

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### **Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)**

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as

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### **Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)**

> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing

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