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The Human Intellect

Author	Adrian John Davis
Title of item	The Human Intellect
Subtitle of item	A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective
Volume	Book 2
Pages	45-52
Total pages	152
Parent publication	Lights of Irfan
Publisher of this ed.	Wilmette, IL: Irfan Colloquia
Date of this edition	2001
Language	English
Permission	editor and publisher
Posted	2010-05-17 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/davis_human_intellect
Abstract	A study of some of the analogies and differences between the Sufi concept of the "Perfect Man" and the Bahá'í notion of the Manifestation of God; theologies of at-Tirmidhí, Ibn al-'Arabí, Dáwud-al-Qaysarí, Haydar Amulí, et al.; the "Muhammadan Essence."
Notes	Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #28, London School of Economics (July 14-6, 2000). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/28/davis_intellect.
Tags	Intellect; Knowledge; Manifestations of God; Mediation; Perfect Man (Pole); Philosophy; Philosophy, Islamic; Qutb (Pole); Rationality; Reason; Sufism
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Last edited	2022-01-21 15:38 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=davis_human_intellect.

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