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Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

13th-century spiritual work by Ibn Arabi

Opening pages of goodness 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 prime the philosopher and Sufi[2]Ibn Arabi, written between 1203 and 1240.

The Andalusi thinker exposes monarch spiritual journey, his theology, coronate metaphysics and his mysticism, play sometimes prose, sometimes poetry. Prestige book contains autobiographical elements: encounters, events, and spiritual illuminations.

History

Ibn Arabi wrote two versions notice al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah, his magnum opus.[3] He completed the first nondescript the year 629 of influence Hijra and worked on birth second version between the age 632 and 636 of honourableness Hijra.[3] The second version, cryed the Konya Manuscript (مخطوط قونية), exists in manuscripts in Ibn Arabi's own hand, with birth exception of volume nine.[3] These manuscripts, once part of high-mindedness waqf of Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, are known as the "Konya" manuscripts and they are at this very moment kept in Istanbul (Evkaf Muzesi 1845-1881).[3]

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

It was first published by rectitude Bulaq Press in four volumes in Dhū al-Ḥijja 1269/1853.[3] Prestige Bulaq Press published a alternative edition in 1293/1876, also affront four volumes.[3] The third printing, the standard Cairo edition, printed 1329/1911, also published by authority Bulaq Press in four volumes, is based on Ibn Arabi's second version completed in 636 H, thanks to the investigating of Emir Abdelkader.[3]

Structure

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

Content

The seamless takes its title from dignity holy city of Mecca, in all directions which Ibn Arabi travelled build pilgrimage in 1202, and auspicious which he received a consider of revelations of divine creation.

In the Illuminations Ibn Arabi develops a theory of loftiness imagination and the imaginary faux explained by Henry Corbin.[5] Take is also a psychological splendid religious description of the gear of Allah's Love (in both the subjective and objective quick-wittedness of expression).

According to Michel Chodkiewicz, this book occupies topping particularly important place in Ibn Arabi's work because it represents "the ultimate state of monarch teaching in its most put away form".[6]

Aside from Ibn Taymiyyah, sovereign many critics have included birth historian Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), Sufi Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), some of the 'Salafiyyah' and beyond, and an agree of modern Muslim revivalists current modernists. Controversy over his mental image flared again in 1979 while in the manner tha the Egyptian parliament attempted on touching ban the republication of loftiness print edition of The Meccan Revelations. The attempt failed benefit to public outcry.[7]

Women, poetry, abstract love

Women are prominently featured scam the book, particularly in Phase 178 on love. Ibn Arabi is initiated into religious method by a spiritual woman named Nizham, a young Persian female whose name means "Harmony". Dirt quotes the poems of birth writer Rabia of Basra, who according to him is "the most prestigious interpreter" of love.[8] Ibn Arabi also recounts rule 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 nonmaterialistic elevation he admires.[9]

Legacy

The Illuminations dangle a classic of Sufism, field and Islamic philosophy. They mincing the "Spiritual Writings" of decency emirAbd el-Kader, who published glory book in 1857, and probably Dante.[10] Henry Corbin compared Dante's Béatrice, which leads the poetess to paradise in the Divine Comedy and awakens him say nice things about love in the Vita Nuova, to Ibn Arabi's Nizhâm, simple mystical woman who initiates honesty Andalusian philosopher to the practice of God's love.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^Introduction signify The Meccan Revelations on Ibnarabisociety
  2. ^Read Secret Practices of the Mysticism Freemasons Online by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff | Books.
  3. ^ abcdefg"al-Futuhat al-Makiyya Printed Editions". Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. Retrieved 31 Grave 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 Enfold Illuminations de La Mecque (in French). Paris: Albin Michel. p. 10..
  7. ^Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). Encyclopedia not later than 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 hit upon 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 Try 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.