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| Foreword | |
| A Note on Dates and Citations from the Koran | |
| Introduction | |
| The Intellectual Tradition in Islam | |
| The Feminist Critique of Islam | |
| The Background of the Present Book | |
| Chinese and Islamic Thought | |
| Theological Polarity | |
| Signs of God | |
| Cosmic Correspondences | |
| Human Equilibrium | |
| The Plan of the Book | |
| The Three Realities | |
| Signs in the Horizons and the Souls | |
| Qualitative Correspondence | |
| Qualitative Levels | |
| Human All-Comprehensiveness | |
| Children of the Elements | |
| The Myth of Adam's Creation | |
| Human Becoming | |
| The Cosmic and Human Books | |
| Theology | |
| Divine Duality | |
| God and the Essence | |
| Incomparability and Similarity | |
| Complementary Names | |
| God and His Vassal | |
| The One and the Two | |
| The Creation of the Many | |
| The Differentiation of the Undifferentiated | |
| Being and Knowledge | |
| Majesty and Beauty | |
| Awe and Intimacy | |
| Social Implications of Divine Duality | |
| The Two Hands of God | |
| Right and Left | |
| The Views of Koran Commentators | |
| Fingers and Feet | |
| The Two Hands in the Futuhat al-makkiyya | |
| The Fusus al-hikam | |
| Mu'ayyid al-Din Jandi | |
| 'Abd al-Razzaq Kashani | |
| Dawud Qaysari | |
| Sadr al-Din Qunawi | |
| Sa'id al-Din Farghani | |
| Farghani on the Two Handfuls | |
| Cosmology | |
| Heaven and Earth | |
| The Creation of the Cosmos | |
| The Tao of Heaven and Earth | |
| Heaven and Earth as Correlative Terms | |
| Similitudes | |
| Shifting Relationships | |
| The Seven Heavens | |
| The Four Elements | |
| The Virtues of the Earth | |
| Macrocosmic Marriage | |
| Fathers and Mothers | |
| Universal Marriage | |
| Triplicity | |
| The Pen and the Tablet | |
| The Intellect and the Soul | |
| Natural Children | |
| Changing Relationships | |
| The Faces of the Intellect | |
| The Two Wings of Gabriel | |
| Human Marriage | |
| Marriage in Society | |
| Man's Degree over Woman (I) | |
| Man's Degree over Woman (II) | |
| Mutual Love | |
| Women Made Lovable | |
| The Fusus al-hikam | |
| Mutual Longing | |
| Witnessing God in Women | |
| Marriage and Creation | |
| Perfect Sexual Union | |
| The Symbolism of Grammatical Gender | |
| Spiritual Counsel | |
| The Womb | |
| Universal Worship | |
| The Mercy of Existence | |
| Nature as Wife and Mother | |
| Love for Parents | |
| The Womb as Microcosm | |
| The Womb as Nature | |
| Spiritual Psychology | |
| Static Hierarchy | |
| Principles of Ta'wil | |
| Names of the Unseen | |
| Signs of the Microcosm | |
| Spirit | |
| Soul | |
| Intellect | |
| The Spirit's Kingdom | |
| Heaven and Earth | |
| Dynamics of the Soul | |
| Struggle on the Path to God | |
| The Soul's Evil | |
| Conflicting Character Traits | |
| The Soul's Receptivity | |
| Manliness and Chivalry | |
| Negative Masculinity | |
| Adam, Eve, and Iblis | |
| The Soul's Animals | |
| Purifying the Soul | |
| The Heart | |
| In the Koran and the Hadith | |
| Between Spirit and Soul | |
| The Heart in the School of Ibn al-'Arabi | |
| The Birth of the Heart | |
| The Heart's Birth According to 'Izz al-Din Kashani | |
| The Heart's Birth According to Ibn al-'Arabi's School | |
| The Soul as Virgin Mother | |
| The Perfected Heart | |
| True Men and True Women | |
| Postscript | |
| Chronological List of Authors Cited | |
| Notes on Authors Cited | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index of Koranic Verses | |
| Index of Hadiths and Sayings | |
| General Index | |
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