The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society

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There is a full listing of the articles which have appeared in the Journal on Journals page.

Articles from the Journal and other sources
(alphabetically by author)

• Claude Addas
  • The experience and doctrine of love in Ibn Arabî
  • Expérience et doctrine de l'amour chez Ibn Arabî
  • The Ship of Stone
  • Le Vaisseau de pierre
  • Abu Madyan and Ibn 'Arabi

• Hamid Algar
  • Reflections of Ibn 'Arabi in Early Naqshbandî Tradition

• Pablo Beneito
  • On the Divine Love of Beauty (pdf)
  • The Presence of Superlative Compassion
  • La Presencia De La Compasión Superlativa (Spanish)
  • The Servant of the Loving One - On the Adoption of the Character Traits of al-Wadûd

• Jane Carroll
  • Timelessness and Time

• Aaron Cass
  • The Ransom and the Ruin

• William Chittick
  • Ibn 'Arabi's own Summary of the Fusûs (pdf)
  • The Chapter Headings Of The Fusûs (pdf)
  • Two Chapters from the Futûhât (pdf)
  • The last will and testament of Sadr al-Din Qunawi - Translation
  • The Central Point - Qūnawī's Role in the School of Ibn 'Arabî
  • Jami on Divine Love and the image of wine
  • The Divine Roots of Human Love
  • Presence with God

• Michel Chodkiewicz
  • The Vision of God
  • The Endless Voyage
  • The Banner of Praise
  • The Diffusion of Ibn 'Arabi's Doctrine

• Jane Clark
  • Early Best-sellers in the Akbarian Tradition (pdf)
  • Fulfilling our Potential: Ibn 'Arabi's understanding of man in a contemporary context
  • Some Notes on the Manuscript Veliyuddin 51, with Denis McAuley

• Jereer El-Moor
  • The Occult Tradition of the Tarot in Tangency with Ibn 'Arabi's Life and Teachings, Part I (pdf)
  • The Occult Tradition of the Tarot in Tangency with Ibn 'Arabi's Life and Teachings, Part II (pdf)

• Gerald Elmore
  • Ibn al-'Arabi's Testament on the Mantle of Initiation (al-Khirqah) (pdf)
  • Four Texts of Ibn al-'Arabi on the Creative Self-Manifestation of the Divine Names (pdf)
  • The Alchemical Marriage of Intellect and Soul

• Carl W. Ernst
  • The Man Without Attributes: Ibn 'Arabi's Interpretation of Abu Yazid al-Bistami

• Denis Gril
  • The Journey through the Circles of Inner Being according to Ibn 'Arabî’s Mawâqi' al-nujûm
  • Love Letters to the Ka'ba - A presentation of Ibn 'Arabi's Tâj al-Rasâ'il
  • The Kitâb al-inbâh of 'Abdallah Badr al-Habashi - Translation
  • The Kitâb al-inbâh of 'Abdallah Badr al-Habashi - Introduction
  • "There is no Word in the World that does not Indicate His Praise"
  • "Il n'est de Mot dans l'Univers qui n'Indique Sa Louange" (French)
  • Adab and Revelation – One of the Foundations of the Hermeneutics of Ibn 'Arabi
  • Adab och uppenbarelse – eller en av grundvalarna för hermeneutiken hos Ibn 'Arabi (Swedish)
  • Commentaries on the Fâtiha and Experience of the Being According to Ibn 'Arabi

• Souad Hakim
  • Ibn 'Arabî's Twofold Perception of Woman - Woman as Human Being and Cosmic Principle
  • The Way of Walaya
  • Unity of Being in Ibn 'Arabî - A Humanist Perspective
  • The Spirit and the Son of the Spirit

• Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
  • The Immutable Entities and Time

• Rabia Terri Harris
  • On Majesty and Beauty - The Kitâb Al-Jalâl Wa-l Jamâl of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (pdf)

• Stephen Hirtenstein
  • "I entrust to you a bequest" - Ibn Sawdakin - Translation
  • Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi: The Treasure of Compassion
  • Selected major works of Ibn 'Arabi
  • Seleção das maiores obras de Ibn 'Arabī (Portuguese)
  • De Volta a Deus (Ibn 'Arabi 1182-1184) – Capítulo 5 de O Compassivo Ilimitado (Portuguese)
  • Some Preliminary Notes on al-Dîwân al-kabîr
  • The Brotherhood of Milk - Perspectives of Knowledge in the Adamic Clay

• Victoria Rowe Holbrook
  • Ibn 'Arabi and Ottoman Dervish Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order (Part One)

• Dom Sylvester Houédard
  • Notes on the more than human saying: 'Unless you know yourself you cannot know God'

• Bahram Jassemi
  • The Dimensions of the Mystical Journey

• Huzayfa Mangera
  • Three Dimensions of the Rûh

• Denis McAuley
  • Some Notes on the Manuscript Veliyuddin 51, with Jane Clark

• James Morris
  • Introduction to The Meccan Revelations
  • How to Study the Futûhât: Ibn 'Arabi's Own Advice
    • Hur Man Studerar Futûhât : Ibn 'Arabis Egna Råd (Swedish)
  • Ibn 'Arabi: Spiritual Practice and Other Translations - Overview of the ten following articles:
    • Some Dreams of Ibn 'Arabî (pdf)
    • Body of Light (pdf)
    • Introducing Ibn 'Arabî's "Book of Spiritual Advice" (pdf)
    • Book of the Quintessence of What is Indispensable for the Spiritual Seeker (pdf)
    • Ibn 'Arabi on the Barzakh - Chapter 63 of the Futûhât (pdf)
    • The Spiritual Ascension: Ibn 'Arabî and the Mi'râj - Chapter 367 of the Futûhât (pdf)
    • The Mahdi and His Helpers - Chapter 366 of the Futûhât (pdf)
    • Ibn 'Arabî's "Esotericism": The Problem of Spiritual Authority (pdf)
    • Communication and Spiritual Pedagogy: Methods of Investigation (tahqîq) (pdf)
    • Rhetoric & Realisation in Ibn 'Arabî: How can we communicate meanings today? (pdf)
  • Listening for God: Prayer and the Heart in the Futûhât
    • Listening for God, part 2
    • Listening for God, part 3
    • Listening for God, part 4
  • Ibn 'Arabi and his Interpreters - Overview of 28 articles and reviews in this section
  • Ibn 'Arabi and his Interpreters I - Four Overviews, description of the following:
    • Ibn 'Arabi; in the "Far West" (pdf)
    • Except His Face: The Political and Aesthetic Dimensions of Ibn 'Arabi's Legacy (pdf)
    • Situating Islamic 'Mysticism' (pdf)
    • "Ibn 'Arabi and his Interpreters", JAOS article 1986, Part I (pdf), Part II, Part III (pdf)
  • Ibn 'Arabi and his Interpreters II - Influences in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. Introduction to the seven articles in this section::
    • Theophany or "Pantheism"?: the Importance of Balyânî's Risâlat al-Ahadîya
    • The Continuing Relevance of Qaysari's Thought: Divine Imagination and the Foundation of Natural Spirituality.
    • Review: La destinée de l'homme selon Avicenne: Le retour à Dieu (ma'âd) et l'imagination, by Jean Michot
    • Review: Kitâb al-Inbâh 'alâ Tarîq Allâh de 'Abdallâh Badr al-Habashî:
    • Review: La Risâla de Safî al-Dîn Ibn Abî l-Mans'ûr Ibn Zâfir
    • Review: Manjhan, Madhumālatī: An Indian Sufi Romance
    • Review: Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art
    • Or download all the above seven articles in one pdf file)
  • Ibn 'Arabi and His Interpreters III - Later Muslim Critics and Polemics (a collection of four articles): (pdf)
    • An Arab "Machiavelli"? : Rhetoric, Philosophy and Politics in Ibn Khaldun's Critique of "Sufism".
    • Review: Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies & Polemics
    • Review: Ibn 'Arabi and the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam
    • Review: Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazâlî's "Best of All Possible Worlds"
  • Later Muslim Critics and Polemics (collection of articles and reviews) (pdf)
  • Ibn Masarra: A reconsideration of the primary sources (pdf 6.0 mb)

• Sachiko Murata
  • The Unity of Being in Liu Chih's "Islamic Neoconfucianism"

• Martin Notcutt
  • An Introduction to Ibn 'Arabi's Mishkat al-Anwar

• Berndt Radtke
  • A Forerunner of Ibn al-'Arabî: Hakîm Tirmidhî on Sainthood

• Bulent Rauf
  • Concerning the Universality of Ibn 'Arabi
  • Union and Ibn 'Arabi

• Frithiof Rundgren
  • On the Dignity of Man

• Giuseppe Scattolin
  • The Key Concepts of al-Farghâni's Commentary on Ibn al-Fârid's Sufi Poem, al-Tâ'iyyat al-Kubrâ (pdf)

• Reza Shah-Kazemi
  • Jesus in the Qur'an: Selfhood and Compassion - An Akbari Perspective

• Mustafa Tahrali
  • A General Outline of the Influence of Ibn 'Arabî on the Ottoman Era

• Cecilia Twinch
  • Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi: The Beauty of Oneness...
  • The Circle of Inclusion

• Itzchak Weismann
  • God and the Perfect Man in the Experience of 'Abd al-Qâdir al-Jaza'iri

• Osman Yahya
  • Theophanies and Lights in the Thought of Ibn 'Arabi

• Peter Young
  • Ibn 'Arabi: towards a universal point of view
  • Working together between God's two hands