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Ibn 'Arabi's writings
Ibn 'Arabi wrote at least 350 works, ranging from the enormous Futuhat al-Makkiyya, which fills thousands of pages of Arabic, to innumerable small treatises no more than a few pages long.
The following selection has been made to give the non-specialist an overview of the subject matter. It has been done on the basis of what is often mentioned in his own writing and what is commonly available in printed form, but it is by no means exhaustive.
The two-volume classification of works compiled by Osman Yahia in 1964, Histoire et Classification de l'Oeuvre d'Ibn 'Arabi, was the first, and to date the only, attempt to assess the extent of Ibn 'Arabi's writings, but lack of time and resources meant that this inventory was necessarily full of omissions.
This present selection is arranged under short titles and in approximate chronological order, although some of the works took many years to write and some were rewritten. The writings are listed under the different periods of Ibn 'Arabi's life, and can be accessed via the menu in the right-hand column.
Every other writer acts according to the
dictates of their own choice or free-will, or according to the knowledge
which is being promulgated. He puts in what he wants and leaves out what
he wants; or he puts in what this knowledge gives him, once the question
under consideration has become clear to him.
We,
on the other hand, write in the following fashion: the heart clings devotedly
to the door of the Divine Presence, watchful for what unfolds when the
door is opened, in poverty and need, empty of all knowledge. Whatever
comes to it from behind that curtain, the heart hastens to obey and sets
it down according to the measure appointed in the divine command.
Futuhat al-Makkiyya
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In what I have written, I have never had a set purpose, as other writers. Flashes of divine inspiration used to come upon me and almost overwhelm me, so that I could only put them from my mind by committing to paper what they revealed to me.
Futuhat al-Makkiyya
"There is no god but God, and Muhammad
is the messenger of God", inscribed in the Mosque in Cordoba
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