Words of Power:

I. Cosmogony and Cosmology

Introduction — 45–48
1. Primordial Unity: The Semantics of the Creation — 49–72
2. Manifestation of the Invisible: The Morphology of the Creation — 73–94
3. Adam and Eve: The Form of the Word — 95–110
4. Excursus on Knowledge and Love — 111–140
5. Time: The Receptacle of the Word — 141–160
6. The Universe: Diversity in the Unity of the Word — 161–210

II. Prophetology

Introduction — 211–216
7. Adam and Eve: The Prototype of Prophetic Experience
— - — and the Personification of the Prophetic Cycle — 217–236
8. The Revelation (Tanzīl): From the Divine to the Human Language — 237–258
9. From the Human Word to the Divine Word: Stages of the Return to the Origin (Ta'wīl) — 259–272
10. Jesus and Muḥammad: The ‘Motherly’ (Ummī) Prophets between Tanzīl and Ta'wīl — 273–304
11. From Idrīs to Moses: Other Significant Features of the Prophetic Missions — 305–318

III. Soteriology and Eschatology

Introduction — 319–320
12. Ways of Individual Salvation: Paradise of Knowledge and Hell of Ignorance — 321–338
13. The Last Stage of the Cycle of the Word: The Ummīs and the End of Time — 339–386