Ibn al-ʿArabī's Kitāb Fuṣūṣ al-Hikam wa-Khuṣūṣ al-Kalim

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-67754-8
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: Islamic Sources / Masadir Islamiyya

Although the exemplar of the Fusus al-hikam has mysteriously disappeared shortly after its composition, the earliest copy in al-Qunawi’s hand has survived. Having been collated with the orginal, read in front of Ibn al-'Arabi, and signed by him, it stands as the vetustissimus and optimus. This edition is established on its reading and is checked against 'Afifi’s classic. Besides a fully vocalized text, it provides an appended facsimile of the manuscript.

The introductory section is the first comprehensive study that tracks the whole story of the manuscript and attempts to identify possible scattered traces of the lost original. It reviews attitudes towards the text, as well as a century of scholarly research on it, and illustrates key concepts of the Master’s doctrine to help contextualize the book contents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Ibn al-'Arabi, Muhyi l-Din

Golfetto, Marco Aurelio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Ibn al-?Arabi and the Fu?u? al-?ikam

1 Ibn al-?Arabi and His Spiritual Legacy

2 Books with a Special Status

3 A Century of Research on the Fu?u? al-?ikam

4 Key Concepts in the Thought of Ibn al-?Arabi

2 The Reception of Ibn al-?Arabi’s Work

1 The Reception and the Rise of Polemics

2 Attitudes toward the Fu?u? al-?ikam

3 Interpolation of the Fu?u? al-?ikam according to al-Sha?rani

4 Al-Ghurab and the Last Challenge to the Text’s Authenticity

5 The Academic Counterargument and the Codicological Turning Point

3 The Fu?u? al-?ikam: Story of a Manuscript

1 The Making of the Copy

2 Al-Qunawi’s Endowment and the Fate of the Manuscript

3 Missing Root: the Lost Original

4 The Present Edition

1 Description of the Manuscript

2 Principles of the Edition

Addendum

Critical Edition

Bibliography

Index of Names, Places and Works

Index of Quranic Verses

Über Autor(innen)

Marco Aurelio Golfetto (Ph.D., University of Venice) is a researcher at the University of Milan. He teaches Arabic language and culture. He has published on Language Teaching and Sufism, including the Italian translation of al-Ghazali’s K. al-Muraqaba wa-l-muhasaba.