Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi: life and works
An Andalusian Sufi author whose journeys connected the western and eastern Islamic worlds (560–638 AH / 1165–1240 CE).
Arabic source page ↗Ibn al-Arabi
Translations & readings
Read translated pages alongside their Arabic sources. Each entry identifies a prose translation or an abridged introduction.
Ibn al-Arabi or Ibn Arabi? His name and its spelling
A translation of the site’s explanation of its preferred spelling, with the distinction between the Sufi author and the earlier Maliki judge.
Arabic source page ↗The Futuhat: the Maymaniyya (Cairo) edition
The history, pagination and limitations of the four-volume edition described on the Arabic page.
Arabic source page ↗Fusus al-Hikam: the Bezels of Wisdom
An introduction to the book’s structure, its prophetic chapters and the commentary tradition.
Arabic source page ↗A selected chronology of Ibn al-Arabi’s life
Dated landmarks drawn from the Arabic chronology in Sun from the West.
Arabic source page ↗Teachers and spiritual companions
Selected figures from the Arabic account of Ibn al-Arabi’s formation.
Arabic source page ↗Ibn al-Arabi’s ijaza: teachers and transmitted books
A guide to selected opening entries in the authorisation addressed to the Ayyubid ruler al-Malik al-Muzaffar.
Arabic source page ↗The mosque and tomb of Ibn al-Arabi in Damascus
A historical introduction to the complex in al-Salihiyya, based on the Arabic architectural account.
Arabic source page ↗Isma’il ibn Sawdakin: companion and transmitter
A translation of the short Arabic biographical notice.
Arabic source page ↗Sufism and philosophy: were Ibn al-Arabi and Ibn Rushd enemies?
An English translation of Mohamed Haj Yousef’s article published in issue 75 of Al-Emarat Al-Thaqafiyya.
Arabic source page ↗Abu Madyan: learning, spiritual discipline and transmission
An abridged English account of Abu Madyan Shuayb ibn Husayn, known in the Maghrib as Sidi Boumediene.
Arabic source page ↗Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi: a later Damascene interpreter
A scholar, poet and teacher of the Futuhat in Ottoman Damascus, presented through the Arabic biographical account.
Arabic source page ↗Ahmad al-Harun: a Damascene spiritual teacher
An abridged biography of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Harun al-Husayni, the stonemason and Sufi teacher remembered in twentieth-century Damascus.
Arabic source page ↗Mahmud al-Ghurab: collecting and interpreting Ibn al-Arabi
A historical profile of Mahmud Mahmud al-Ghurab and his work on the Akbarian corpus, abridged from the Arabic biography.
Arabic source page ↗Between yes and no: Ibn Rushd and Ibn al-Arabi
Reason, the heart and renewed creation: an abridged rendering of the Arabic author’s interpretation of a celebrated encounter.
Arabic source page ↗Nizam and Tarjuman al-Ashwaq: spiritual love poetry
An abridged rendering of the article’s reading of Nizam, love and interpretation in Ibn al-Arabi’s poetry.
Arabic source page ↗Damascus and an unknown love
Ibn al-Arabi’s final home, teaching and writing: an abridged rendering of the Arabic article.
Arabic source page ↗Poetry and prose: which comes first?
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, the Diwan and the poetic imagination: an abridged rendering of the Arabic essay.
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