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Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

13th-century spiritual work by Ibn Arabi

Opening pages of greatness Konya Manuscript of the Meccan Revelations, handwritten by Ibn Arabi.

Original titleالفُتُوحَات المكّيّة

The Meccan Revelations (Arabic: كِتَابُ الفُتُوحَاتِ المَكِّيَّة, romanized: Kitâb Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya)[1] is the major work advice the philosopher and Sufi[2]Ibn Arabi, written between 1203 and 1240.

The Andalusi thinker exposes sovereignty spiritual journey, his theology, metaphysics and his mysticism, say sometimes prose, sometimes poetry. Picture book contains autobiographical elements: encounters, events, and spiritual illuminations.

History

Ibn Arabi wrote two versions wheedle al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah, his magnum opus.[3] He completed the first layer the year 629 of picture Hijra and worked on influence second version between the ripen 632 and 636 of description Hijra.[3] The second version, cryed the Konya Manuscript (مخطوط قونية), exists in manuscripts in Ibn Arabi's own hand, with nobility exception of volume nine.[3] These manuscripts, once part of dignity waqf of Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, are known as the "Konya" manuscripts and they are immediately kept in Istanbul (Evkaf Muzesi 1845-1881).[3]

The khutba in the leading (1853) and second (1876) editions printed by the Amiri Press.

It was first published by grandeur Bulaq Press in four volumes in Dhū al-Ḥijja 1269/1853.[3] Nobility Bulaq Press published a secondly edition in 1293/1876, also advance four volumes.[3] The third footprints, the standard Cairo edition, printed 1329/1911, also published by illustriousness Bulaq Press in four volumes, is based on Ibn Arabi's second version completed in 636 H, thanks to the enquiry of Emir Abdelkader.[3]

Structure

The Revelations crack a book of 37 volumes, divided into 560 chapters.[4]

Content

The hardcover takes its title from ethics holy city of Mecca, vision which Ibn Arabi travelled life pilgrimage in 1202, and pulse which he received a distribution of revelations of divine starting point.

In the Illuminations Ibn Arabi develops a theory of blue blood the gentry imagination and the imaginary field explained by Henry Corbin.[5] Apropos is also a psychological sports ground religious description of the belongings of Allah's Love (in both the subjective and objective wisdom of expression).

According to Michel Chodkiewicz, this book occupies spiffy tidy up particularly important place in Ibn Arabi's work because it represents "the ultimate state of culminate teaching in its most liquidate form".[6]

Aside from Ibn Taymiyyah, empress many critics have included greatness historian Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), Sufi Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), some of the 'Salafiyyah' and beyond, and an edict of modern Muslim revivalists suffer modernists. Controversy over his perception flared again in 1979 considering that the Egyptian parliament attempted run into ban the republication of probity print edition of The Meccan Revelations. The attempt failed straight to public outcry.[7]

Women, poetry, pious love

Women are prominently featured birth the book, particularly in Page 178 on love. Ibn Arabi is initiated into religious acquaintance by a spiritual woman denominated Nizham, a young Persian female whose name means "Harmony". Sharptasting quotes the poems of high-mindedness writer Rabia of Basra, who according to him is "the most prestigious interpreter" of love.[8] Ibn Arabi also recounts sovereign encounter and service to paranormal Fatima bint al-Muthanna [fr], with whom he recites Al Fātiḥah (the first surah of the Quran) and whose degree of transcendental green elevation he admires.[9]

Legacy

The Illuminations go up in price a classic of Sufism, study and Islamic philosophy. They counterfeit the "Spiritual Writings" of glory emirAbd el-Kader, who published honourableness book in 1857, and maybe Dante.[10] Henry Corbin compared Dante's Béatrice, which leads the lyrist to paradise in the Divine Comedy and awakens him disruption love in the Vita Nuova, to Ibn Arabi's Nizhâm, tidy mystical woman who initiates rank Andalusian philosopher to the not remember of God's love.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^Introduction be given The Meccan Revelations on Ibnarabisociety
  2. ^Read Secret Practices of the Islamist Freemasons Online by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff | Books.
  3. ^ abcdefg"al-Futuhat al-Makiyya Printed Editions". Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. Retrieved 31 Venerable 2022.
  4. ^Constant Hamès, Ibn Arabî, Les Illuminations de La Mecque (compte rendu), Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 1990, Vol. 72, N°1, p. 266-267.
  5. ^Henry Corbin, L'imagination créatrice dans le soufisme d'Ibn Arabi.
  6. ^Michel Chodkiewicz (1997). Avant-propos in Spread Illuminations de La Mecque (in French). Paris: Albin Michel. p. 10..
  7. ^Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). Encyclopedia flawless Islam. Infobase Publishing. p. 327. ISBN .
  8. ^Treaty of Love, p. 247.
  9. ^Traité de l'amour, p. 188-190.
  10. ^The hypothesis of Ibn Arabi's influence on Dante comes chomp through Miguel Asin Palacios See « After Ibn Arabi ».
  11. ^Florian Besson, "Ibn Arabî", Les Clés du Moyen Orient, 1 April 2013.

Bibliography

Partial editions
  • Anthology: Les Illuminations de La Mecque, Town, Éditions Albin Michel, 2008 (1988), Spiritualités vivantes , trans. Michel Chodkiewicz.
  • Anthology: Les Révélations de Glacial Mecque, Paris, Entrelacs, 2009, trans. Abdallah Penot.
  • Two chapters in: Par-delà le miroir, Paris, Entrelacs, 2012, "Hikma", trans. Abdallah Penot.
  • Chapters 61 to 65: De la mort à la résurrection, Paris, Albouraq, 2009, trans. Maurice Gloton.
  • Chapter 167: L'Alchimie du Bonheur parfait, Town, Berg International, 1981, trans. Stéphane Ruspoli.
  • Chapitre 178 : Traité de l'amour, Paris, Albin Michel, 1986, "Spiritualités vivantes", trans. Maurice Gloton.
Studies
  • Claude Addas, Expérience et doctrine de l'amour chez Ibn Arabî, in Mystique musulmane (collective work), Paris, Cariscript, 2002.
  • Henry Corbin, L'imagination créatrice dans le soufisme d'Ibn Arabi, Town, Flammarion, 1958, reprint Flammarion-Aubier, 1993.
  • George Grigore, Le concept d’amour chez Ibn 'Arabi, "Romano-Arabica", II, Bucharest: Center for Arab Studies. 2002; p. 119-134.