Region Perennial Philosophy Schools of thought Sufism | Role Philosopher Name Eric Geoffroy | |
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Born 1956 Belfort, France Main interests Sufism, Poetry, Philosophy, Sociology, Modernity in Islam Notable ideas L\'Islam sera spirituel ou ne sera plus (Islam shall be spiritual or shall be no more) Contemplative Jihad (an expression of the Greater Jihad i.e. the Jihad against one\'s own ego) Islam in Post-modernity; Universal dimension of Islam Areas of interest Sociology, Sufism, Philosophy, Poetry Books Introduction to Sufism, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam | ||
Philosophical era 20th-century philosophy | ||
Eric Geoffroy: Some Aspects of "Supra-reason" in Ibn 'Arabi's Epistomology
Éric Geoffroy (Belfort, 1956) is a French philosopher, islamologist, writer and scholar in the Sufi studies teaching at the University of Strasbourg a long time alma mater to European orientalism. He is an affiliate of the Alawiya Sufi Brotherhood.
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A staunch critic of the notion of a Clash of Civilizations, which he transcends into a Dialogue of Traditions Eric Geoffroy argues that Islam's main dimension is pacific and spiritual. In the tradition of the Early French Sufi Studies and notably in the 19th and 20th century with Ivan Aguéli and René Guénon two French initiates to Sufism with a typically French cultural identity, Geoffroy notably studies the many influences of Sufism in the Western culture and the European Identity.
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