ABSTRACT
No individual is born to become, or shall ever solely remain, a "Muslim Mystic," or a "Persian Philosopher." Such archetypal cement blocks suffocate the animating individuality, the relentlessly self-contradictory reality, of a man who sits in front of the world, while in it, and wonders, ponders, thinks, reflects, and thus ultimately, trying to capture a pre-moment of the world, amuses himself and those who care to read him De-essentializing "Islamic philosophy" or "Sufism," and all other categories of unexamined generalities, needs a fully re-historicized individual, conscious and aware of the subversive act constitutional to his counter-imagining the sacred. In his counter-imagining the sacred, he begins to crack the monological, the deadly certain, the routinized, and the institutional conventions constitutional to the sacred imagination he sought to subvert. Through that radical counter-imagining, 'Ayn al-Qudat shakes the entire edifice of "Islamic" doctrinal beliefs to its foundation.
