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Work 1: Kitāb al-‘Aẓamat (Ibn al-ʿArabī, 1165-1240)

LOC subject headings

lccn:n82039968

Criticism, interpretation, etc (Qurơan)

Author

Ibn al-ʿArabī, 1165-1240

ابن العربي

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Ibn al-ʿArabī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Muḥyī al-Dīn, 1165-1240

ابن العربي، محمد بن علي، محيي الدين

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (authorised)

Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbn Arabî, Muhittin, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī (variant)

Ibn Surāqah, 1165-1240 (variant)

İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, 1165-1240 (variant)

Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, 1165-1240 (variant)

Şeyh-i ekberi, 1165-1240 (variant)

Shaykh al-Akbar, 1165-1240 (variant)

Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, 1165-1240 (variant)

T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, 1165-1240 (variant)

Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 11651240 (variant)

ابن العربي،, 1240-1165 (variant)

ابن عربي (variant)

ابن عربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

ابن عربي،, 11651240 (variant)

بن العربي (variant)

لإبن العربي،, 1165-1240 (variant)

محيى الدين بن عربي (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the most influential and prolific Sufi thinkers of medieval times, Ibn al-ʿArabī was born in the Spanish region of Murcia on 27 Ramaḍān 560 [1165 CE]. He moved to Seville when he was eight years old and began his formal education in that city. From a young age, Ibn al-ʿArabī became part of the local government, acting as kātib to various governors. It is related that during an illness, he had a vision that made him realise that he has been leaving in ignorance (Jāhiliyya) until that moment and had a mystical awakening that would mark the rest of his life. In search of mystical knowledge, he sought the company of different Sufi Shaykhs, travelling for the next 10 years across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. He stayed for some time in Tunis, Fez, Cordova where he began to write some of his early works before going to Cairo and then to Jerusalem around the year 598 AH [1202 CE] from where he began his pilgrimage to Mecca. While om ḥajj, he met Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (the father of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī) and a group of Sufis and Ibn Arabi decided to join them in their trip back to Syria and Anatolia. He arrived in Malatya around 601 AH [1205 CE], at a time when ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāvūs I has been restored as the Sultan of Rum. Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq was invited by the Sultan to the court, where he came accompanied by Ibn al-ʿArabī, who offered advice to the Sultan and both were honoured at the court. Ibn al-ʿArabī resumed his travels again, leaving Anatolia to visit Baghdad and Aleppo and return to Anatolia around 1215 [1215 CE] when he completed the commentary to his Tarjumān al-as̲h̲wāq in between Aksaray and Sivas and then settled for some time in Malatya where he married and have a son. At some point before 1230 [1230 CE], he left Anatolia and re-settled in Damascus under the protection of the Ibn Zakī family of qāḍīs and the Ayyubid court. He died in 1240 [1240 CE] and his body was buried in the mount Qāsiyūn, north of Damascus. Ibn al-ʿArabī is one of the most influential Sufi authors in Anatolia especially die to the diffusion of his idea made by his disciple Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. Other commentators on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s works such as Dāwūd al-Ḳayṣarī (d. 751/1350) or Ḳuṭb al-Dīn al-Izniḳī also helped to spread his philosophy in the region.

Title

Kitāb al-‘Aẓamat

کتاب العظمة

Notes

An esoteric commentary upon the Fātiḥa (first Surah of the Qur’an). It became a popular work that was extensively copied. It is verified by at least five historic manuscripts, the best is Veliyuddin 1759, which is a holograph with two samāʿs in the presence of Ibn Arabi.

Composed in Konya

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

22b-30b ff.

Date of copy

possibly 15th. century

Bibliography

Studies

Ateş, A.. "Ibn al-ʿArabī." Ecyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.].

Chodkiewicz, M.. Un Océan sans Rivage. Paris: 1992.

Chodkiewicz, M.. Le Sceau des Saints. Paris: 1986.

Clark, Jane. "Mystical Perception and Beauty: Ibn ʿArabī’s Preface to Tarjumān al-Ashwāq." Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. , no. 55 2013.

ErolKılıç, M.. "İBNÜ'I-ARABi, Muhyiddin." TDVIA. , [n.d.].

Scattolin, Giuseppe. "Sufism and Law in Islam: A Text of Ibn ‘Arabi (560/1165-638/1240) on the “Protected People”." Islamochristiana. 24 1998: 37-55.

Yahya, Osman. Histoire et classification des œuvres d'Ibn 'Arabi. Damascus: Institut français de Damas, 1964.

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Work 11: Al-Risāla al-Nūriyya (Akşemseddin d. 863/1459)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Akşemseddin d. 863/1459

آق شمس الدين

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Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-mulaqqab bi-Āq shams al-dīn al-rūmī

محمد بن حمزة الملقب بآق شمس الدين الرومي

Akşemseddin, 1389 or 1390-1459 (authorised)

Akşemseddin, 1389 or 90-1459 (variant)

Akşemseddin Mehmed ibn-i Hamza, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Akşemseddin, Mehmet, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Akşemsettin, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Mehmed Akşemseddin, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Mehmet Akşemsettin, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Mehmet Şemseddin bin Hamza, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Şemseddin Mehmed, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Şemsettin Mehmet, 1389 or 1390-1459 (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in Damascus in 792 AH [1390 CE], Akşemseddin came to Anatolia, to Amasya, in the company of his father, at the age of seven. He is said to have studied with Shaykh Bedreddin and became a Qur’an-teacher at Osmancık. He later joined the Zayniyya order and then became an associate of Haci Bayram-i Veli who appointed him his successor (halife) He made Beypazarı and Göynük the centre of activities, but gained favour at the Ottoman court for his medical expertise. He participated in the conquest of Constantinople and is credited with finding the tomb of the Umayyad hero Abu Ayyub Ansari from which the district of Eyüp now takes its name. He died at Göynük. Akşemseddin was the subject of a Menakibname by Enisi which survives in several mss, and is the main source for his life (this has been published in Yurd 1972: 7-142).

Title

Al-Risāla al-Nūriyya

الرسالة النورية

Notes

The most famous of Akşemseddin’s works, a treatise in defence of Haci Bayram-i Veli and his dervishes.

Composed between 838-841 [1434-1438 CE]

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

101b -119a ff.

Date of copy

possibly 17th. century

Bibliography

Editions

Yurd, Ali İhsan. Fatih Sultan Mehmed Han’ın Hocası Akşemseddin: Hayatı ve Eserleri. Istanbul: 1972.

Studies

Kissling, H.J.. "Ak shams al-din." EI2. 1, [n.d.]: 312-3.

Köprülü, Orhan F. and Mustafa Uzun. "Akşemseddin." TDVIA. 2 1989: 299-302.

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