ABSTRACT
The ontological framework of philosophical Sufism can be divided into two main themes: divinity and man. There are correspondences between God and man vis-a-vis divine vicegerency, and between man and the universe. The Qur’an identifies man’s eminence as the vicegerent of God and the complete manifestation of the divine names. The human being is described as the isthmus between God and the world. His essence is the spirit, the most proximate and superior of God’s creation, and his outward form embodies the realities of the world. The divine names have corresponding manifestations in the microcosm as they do in the macrocosm since Being is a single reality governed by contrary and variegated names. Just as there are correspondences between the macrocosm and the microcosm, there are correspondences between the three books of God, according to another division. The Face is the divine Ipseity permeating existence as the face is the identity of a thing.
