By William C. Chittick
"For the 1st time within the background of Orientalism, an intensive research of Ibn al-'Arabi's inspiration is now on hand. William Chittick has given us a translation of diverse passages from the paintings of the Magister Magnus and positioned them of their theological context, hence elimination many misunderstandings that experience prevailed either between Muslims and within the West whilst studying Ibn al-'Arabi's mystical worldview. Chittick has performed this with admirable readability, and his ebook will continuously stay a most vital milestone within the examine of Islamic mystical theology." -- Annemarie Schimmel, Harvard University
Ibn al-'Arabi remains to be referred to as "the nice Sheik" one of the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has develop into recognized within the West because the maximum mystical philosopher of Islamic civilization. He was once a good thinker, theologian, and poet.
William Chittick takes a massive step towards exposing the breadth and intensity of Ibn al-'Arabi's imaginative and prescient. The ebook deals his view of non secular perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and soteriology. The transparent language, unencumbered via methodological jargon, makes it available to these acquainted with different non secular traditions, whereas its scholarly precision will attract specialists.
Beginning with a survey of Ibn al-'Arabi's significant teachings, the ebook progressively introduces crucial features of his inspiration, devoting cognizance to definitions of his easy terminology. His teachings are illustrated with many translated passages introducing readers to attention-grabbing byways of non secular lifestyles that may now not typically be encountered in an account of a thinker's rules. Ibn al-'Arabi is permitted to explain intimately the visionary global from which his wisdom derives and to specific his teachings in his personal words.
More than six hundred passages from his significant paintings, al-Futuhat al-Makkivva, are translated right here, essentially for the 1st time. those on my own supply two times the textual content of the Fusus al-hikam. The exhaustive indexes make the paintings a useful reference device for study in Sufism and Islamic suggestion generally.
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