Is Ibn Arabi the Heir of the Prophets? An Introduction to the Book "Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets" by William Chittick and Its Persian and Arabic Translations
Document Type : pajoohesh
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10.22081/jap.2024.76354
Abstract
Muḥyiddīn Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638 AH), known as "the Greatest Sheikh," is a prominent figure in Islamic mysticism and one of the most influential personalities in theoretical Sufism. Ibn ʿArabī's writings, particularly his book Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam and some of its commentaries, have been taught in many religious schools across the Islamic world for centuries. The first work of Ibn ʿArabī to be published in the West was the brief treatise Ṣūfī Terminology, which was edited and published by the German orientalist Gustav Flügel (d. 1870 CE) in 1845, along with the book al-Taʿrīfāt by Mir Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī (d. 816 AH). Since then, numerous works on Ibn ʿArabī's ideas have been published in the West, and interest in Ibn ʿArabī has intensified significantly in recent decades. One of the works that introduces I Ibn ʿArabī to the general Western reader and provides a concise overview of his ideas is the book Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets by William Chittick. This book has been translated into Persian and Arabic. The present article introduces Chittick's book and its translations.
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