Ibn Arabi
Muhyi Ad-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born mystic and one of the most prolific writers in Islamic history. He made major contributions to the fields of Qur'an commentary, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, cosmology and spiritual psychology, and he was also a great poet of love. Although he is known as the first spokesman for the 'oneness of being,' his real focus was the diverse modalities of human perfection. He marks a transition in Sufism from practical...
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Muhyi ad-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165 - 1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born mystic and one of the most prolific writers in Islamic history. He made major contributions to the fields of Qur'an commentary, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, cosmology, and spiritual psychology, and he was also a great poet of love. Although he is known as the first spokesman for 'the oneness of being', his real focus was the diverse modalities of human perfection. He marks a transition in Sufism in practical instructions on healing the heart and aphorisms on the divine mysteries to an equal stress on the theoretical issues that had long been the topic of philosophy and theology.
Introduction 1Ibn 'Arabi's Life 4Abbreviations Used in the Text 9The Muhammadan Inheritance 11Inheritance 12Opening 14The Muhammadan Seal 16Reading the Qur'an 17Understanding God 18Knowing Self 20God's Wide Earth 22The Inheritor 23The Lover of God 27Assuming the Traits of the Names 29The Divine and Human Form 31Imperfect Love 32The Divine Roots of Love 35Wujud 36The Nonexistent Beloved 38The Entities 40The Genesis of Love 42Love's Throne 44Human Love 45Felicity 46Poverty 47Perfection 49The Cosmology of Remembrance 53Remembrance 53Prophecy 55The Book of the Soul 57The Breath of the All-Merciful 58Knowledge of the Names 61All-Comprehensiveness 62Achieving the Status of Adam 63The Perfect Servant 64The House of God 66Knowledge and Realization 69Knowledge 70Benefit 72The Form of God 74Reliable Knowledge 75Following Authority 77Realization 78The Ambiguity of Creation 80Giving Things their Haqq 81The Rights of God and Man 83The Soul's Haqq 84Time, Space, and the Objectivity of Ethical Norms 87The Methodology of Realization 87Time and Space 91Location 92Time 93Eternity 94Constant Transformation 96Ethics 97Lost in the Cosmos 99The In-Between 101Relativity 102The Worldview of In-Betweenness 103Cosmic Imagination 105The Soul 108The Soul's Root 109Controversies 111The Gods of Belief 112The Disclosure of the Intervening Image 115Self-Awareness 117Death 118Love 119The Hermeneutics of Mercy 123Interpreting the Qur'an 124Good Opinions of God 126The Return to the All-Merciful 128The Mercy of Wujud 130Mercy's Precedence 131Essential Servanthood 134Primordial Nature 135Sweet Torment 136Constitutional Diversity 139Surrender 141Resources 145Index 147
