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The Fusus al-Hikam is acknowledged to be a summary statement of the sufi metaphysics of the “Greatest Master”, Ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240). It is also recognised that the Fusus is a work of great complexity both in its ideas and its style.
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The Fusus al-Hikam is acknowledged to be a summary statement of the sufi metaphysics of the “Greatest Master”, Ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240). It is also recognised that the Fusus is a work of great complexity both in its ideas and its style.
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The Fusus al-Hikam is acknowledged to be a summary statement of the
Table of Contents
Chapter One: | Ibn Arabi: The Man and His ideas and methods |
Chapter Two: | The Wisdom of Divineness in the Word of Adam |
Chapter Three: | The Wisdom of Exaltedness in the Word of Musa |
Chapter Four: | The Wisdom of leadership in the Word of Harun |
Chapter Five: | The Wisdom of Ecstatic Love in the Word of Ibrahim |
Chapter Six: | The Wisdom of Unity in the Word of Hud |
Chapter Seven: | The Wisdom of the Heart in the Word of Shu’ayb |
Chapter Eight: | The Wisdom of Divine Decree in the Word of Uzayr |
Chapter Nine: | The Wisdom of Divine Sovereignty in the Word of Zakariyya |
Chapter Ten: | The Wisdom of Singularity in the Word of Muhammad |
Chapter Eleven: | A |
About The Author
Ronald L. Nettler is university research lecturer in Oriental Studies, Oxford University, and fellow and tutor in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Excerpt from the Book:
The Man
Muhammad b. 'Ali al-'Arabi al-Hatimi
The long period of travel was for Ibn 'Arabi the physical correlative and the context of his concomitant intellectual and religious journey. Learning from others, as well as himself teaching them during his wanderings, Ibn 'Arabi achieved an impressive literary productivity closely linked with his physical movements. Each place, it seems, provided the human and creative resources which made possible the development and refinement of his outlook. The 'arc' of Ibn 'Arabi's life, as Henri Corbin called it, was in this sense truly integrative. The result was an original perspective that in later Islam served to reorientate religious thought, whether
Ibn 'Arabi's Sufi Thought
Ibn 'Arabi’s
The difficulties derive mainly from conceptual and linguistic ambiguity and complex, overlapping and multilevelled ideas in an esoteric formulation. Additionally, there is a linguistic complexity borne out of literary richness and nuance, as well as the obfuscation generally associated with esoteric ideas. Then, as with much of the literature of medieval Islamic religious thought, there is here also an oral factor. The texts derived to some extent from an interweaving of discussion and writing. The discussion would be absorbed within the texts and the texts in their final forms would thus reflect and contain the discussion. As in most cases the history of this process obviously cannot be reconstructed, for this reason, certain ambiguities will remain in the writings. These cannot easily (if at all) be resolved because they originally arose in discussion and they remain there. In Ibn 'Arabi's work, however, the complexity of his thought and the subtlety of his expression remain the greater problem.
Despite these barriers, modern scholarship, greatly aided by traditional sources, has achieved a certain comprehension of Ibn 'Arabi's outlook. However provisional and sometimes obviously uncertain, our present understanding does constitute a firm foundation for going forward. I should like now, however briefly, to provide some overview of Ibn 'Arabi's thought, in particular as this is relevant to his Fusus al-Hikam. While the understanding and explication below are my own, they will inevitably reflect also some views of other modern scholars who have contributed to our common base of knowledge. As my purpose here is more general than specific, I may not in all instances cite them, but I remain grateful for their various contributions.
Sufi Metaphysics
The main term I use to describe Ibn 'Arabi's mystical thought is that of
Though sometimes, then, redolent of aspects of philosophical metaphysics, Ibn 'Arabi's outlook goes beyond and differs from the other tradition in its formulations, expressions, and content. It is also different in its very reason for being, as an
But whatever the Spanish-born mystic who soon became known as ash-shaikh al-
Ibn 'Arabi's Sufi metaphysics is vast and vastly complex. Its main ideas, style, and method, as said above, render it difficult to penetrate. A focused survey of the main ideas, as these are formulated and appear especially in the Fusus, will give more substance to this general characterization of the metaphysics; it will also provide a necessary conceptual background for the
EAN 13 / ISBN | 9781903682067 |
Binding | Paperback |
Author | Ronald L. Nettler |
Publisher | Islamic Texts Society |
Pages | 160 |
Year Published | 2003 |
Height | 9.2 Inches |
Width | 6.1 Inches |
Length | 0.8 Inches |