The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities
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Item type: Item , The writings of Dayananda Ekanatha Hettiarachchi (1933-1981)(University of Peradeniya, 1990) Dharmadasa, K. N. O.Item type: Item , Women in Buddhist story: Insights from a 13th century early sinhala Buddhist text(University of Peradeniya ,Sri Lanka, 1998) Obeyesekere, RanjiniItem type: Item , The Insan Kamil of Bawa: The Metaphysics of a Tamil Sufi Sheikh(University of Peradeniya, 2013) Xavier, Merin ShobhanaAl-insan al-kamal or insan kamil is commonly translated as the perfect being, the servant, the universal man, or the perfected being in Islamic mysticism (Buckhardt 1959, 1979; Izutsu 1983; Baldick 1989; Schimmel 1992; Chittick 2000, 2005; Dagli 2004). In this doctrine, the human being is positioned as the isthmus between Allah (God) and the cosmos. A mirror that reflects tawhid (unity) (Chittick 2000) and the barzakh (interface) between God and the world, an insan kamil is the perfected being who preserves the existence of the universe (Baldick 1989). The Tamil Sufi Sheikh Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986) reformulated the doctrine of insan kamil when he taught his followers in Sri Lanka, United States and Canada. Bawa, as his adherents referred to him, was a teacher of Sufi-Islam from Sri Lanka who migrated to Philadelphia in the 1970s. The paper explores the paradigm of insan kamil as taught by Bawa, while situating this figure of the insan kamil within classical Sufi thought. The primary goal of this paper is to explore Bawa’s metaphysical understanding of the human being through themes of the insan kamil as al-qutb (spiritual mediator), the perfect being and the qalb (heart).Item type: Item , The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing(University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, 1985) Peris, MerlinItem type: Item , Woman of Lanka:A Pioneering, "Radical" Novel of Sri Lnaka(University Of Peradeniya ,Sri Lanka, 1996) Perera, S. WItem type: Item , Wole Soyinka's " a play of giants" : satire and beyond(University of Peradeniya, 1991) Perera, S. W.Item type: Item , William Wordaworth's "Michael" : An Exercise in Proxemics(University of Peradeniya ,Sri Lanka, 2000) Nayar, Pramod KItem type: Item , Who Wrote the Second Half of the Alakesvara Yuddhaya?(University of Peradeniya, 2010) Perera, C.GastonItem type: Item , Where Have All the "Women"Gone? :a consideration of gender and literary production in Sigiri Graffiti(University of Peradeniya, 2009) Wickramagamage, CarmenItem type: Item , The Walling of Dhatusena(University of Peradeniya, 2011) Peris, MerlinItem type: Item , V. S Naipaul and the Creative Process(University of Peradeniya, 1984) Halpe, AshleyItem type: Item , Vowel alternation in spoken Sinhala nominals(University of Peradeniya, 1991) Karunatillake, W. S.Item type: Item , Was Parakramabaha VI of Ceylon a Javaka? An Examination of Professor S. Paranavitana's Theory(University of Sri Lanka , Peradeniya Campus, 1971) Sirisena, W. MItem type: Item , Warfare, the state and the proto " world economy" Armed struggles in ancient and early medieval sri Lanka(University of Peradeniya, 1990) Gunawardana, R. A. L. H.Item type: Item , Voluptuous Maidens and Cubist Demons: The "War of Mara" panel of George Keyt's Murals at Gotami Vihara,Borella, Sri Lanka(University of Peradeniya, 2007) Breese, Byron R.Item type: Item , Visual Representations of the Trojan War in Attic Clay Vases(University of Peradeniya, 2011) Wickramasinghe, Chandima S. M.Item type: Item , Vikramabahu ii and Vikrama Salamevan(University of Peradeniya ,Sri Lanka, 1993) Pathmanathan, SItem type: Item , The Velaikkarar in Medieval South India and Sri Lanka(University of Sri Lanka , Peradeniya Campus, 1976) Pathmanathan, SItem type: Item , Vibhisana and Vijayanagar: An Essay on Religion and Geopolitics in Medieval Sri Lanka(University of Peradeniya, 1991) Walters, Jonathan S.Item type: Item , Vedananupassana : on the management of Kamma(University of Peradeniya, 1988) De Silva, Lily