The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi

This unique portrait of the great Andalusian mystic uses his own writings to tell the story of his life and teachings. Chapters of biography are interwoven with chapters portraying the central elements of his thought and are supplemented with photographs and maps.

Biographies & Memoirs

Hirtenstein, Stephen

Leaders & Notable People

Anqa Publishing

This is a comprehensive portrait of Ibn 'Arabi's life and thought, highlighting his special relevance in the modern world.

The Unlimited Mercifier

This unique portrait of the great Andalusian mystic uses his own writings to tell the story of his life and teachings. Chapters of biography are interwoven with chapters portraying the central elements of his thought and are supplemented with photographs and maps.

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

The quest for happiness and fulfilment lies as the very heart of human life, but for Ibn Arabi there is a realm beyond our ordinary understanding of happiness, where the human stands truly fulfilled, in vision of Reality. This is a goal within the potential of every person. Not everyone who has found happiness is accorded perfection, for while all who are perfect are happy, not every happy one is perfect. Perfection means reaching and joining with the highest degree, and that is assuming the likeness of the Source. In this first English translation of the core chapter 167 from the famous Meccan Illuminations (al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya), Ibn Arabi comprehensively summaries all his major teachings on human perfectibility and true happiness. Using the imagery of alchemy and ascension, he gives the reader an extraordinary insight into the spiritual journey by contrasting two ways of acquiring knowledge: the rational and the mystical. With an introduction to Islamic alchemy, the Hermetic tradition and the mysterious elixir, this is an important text for anyone interested in Sufism, Islamic spirituality or alchemy.

The Alchemy of Human Happiness (Mystical Treatises of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi)

Ibn'Arabi, Muhyiddin

Review\n"a comprehensive introduction to sacred geometry, symbolism, and numerology articulated against the backdrop of a well-known Akbarian prayer on the blessed Prophet. As such, this book is a guiding light for those travelling from the darkness of the periphery to the luminous Muhammadan Centre"Mohammed Rustom, Carleton University\n"This fascinatingly complex volume, as its long title already suggests, actually covers a wide range of subjects that are all connected in various ways to a metaphysically complex invocation (the Salat Faydiyya or "Blessing-Prayer of Effusion" of the title), attributed ostensibly to Ibn 'Arabi, which first appears in a commentary by his well-known later commentator al-Nabulusi-some five centuries after the Shaykh's passing-and which the authors of this volume persuasively attribute to Abdullah Bosnevi, who wrote roughly a century earlier than Nabulusi. This short prayer is of such density and richness of allusions that the authors have provided the Arabic text, literal English and Spanish translations, a fully annotated commentary, and detailed transliterated versions that allow readers without specialized background or Arabic to more fully appreciate its poetic and aesthetic depths. It provides, firstly and most importantly, the most elaborate English introduction to the Arabic 'science of letters' and a host of closely related poetic features, devices and symbols which are central to deciphering and fully understanding both Ibn 'Arabi's immense poetic production and his prose; secondly, a previously unstudied window on the study, ongoing contemplation and spiritual interaction with Ibn 'Arabi in the Ottoman realms (from the Balkans to the Arab heartlands); and thirdly, a quite different historical tradition of related metaphysical poetry and prayer-blessings, which gradually spread in devotional settings across North and West Africa down to the present day" 
James Winston Morris, Boston University\n"At once mathematical and spiritual, Patterns of Contemplation is a uniquely rich introduction to the science of letters and number symbolism, and itself a rare expression of artistic and scholarly devotion to the study of our human mystical heritage" 
Aydogan Kars, Monash University\n"An extraordinary achievement. The Science of Letters combined with numerical and geometric symbolism in particular is treated with thorough investigation and deep insight. The reader is taken by the hand, and even those who do not possess a specific training, nor that particular aptitude that would be desirable for such a peculiar and essential field, should be able to follow and appreciate the articulated dimensions of this 'Pythagorean' vision of existence. At the same time, one should also be able to understand that Ibn ʿArabi's treatment of this Science and, consequently, of a Master of his school like Abdullah Bosnevi, goes far beyond what may have ever been produced in the West, and reveals the heights of the Muhammadian doctrines" 
Paolo Urizzi, Perennia Verba\nPatterns of Contemplation is a uniquely innovative and comprehensive introduction to the sacred principles and symbolism of geometry, letters and numbers, discussed through the first in-depth analysis and English translation of a major Sufi devotional masterpiece, The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion (al-Ṣalāt al-fayḍiyya). 
This special type of prayer, invoking God's blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad, which is well known throughout the Islamic world, seems to have first become popular in the Maghrib (West) from the time of Ibn ʿArabi (d. 1240) onwards. Pablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein provide the first critical edition of the Arabic text and English/Spanish translation of The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion, along with a fully annotated commentary, transliteration and recording. Although this well-known short prayer has been attributed since the 18th century to Ibn ʿArabi, the authors argue persuasively that it was actually written by Ab

Patterns of Contemplation: Ibn 'Arabi, Abdullah Bosnevi and The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion (Arabic Edition)

Beneito, Pablo

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The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi

The Unlimited Mercifier

The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi

The Alchemy of Human Happiness (Mystical Treatises of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi)

Patterns of Contemplation: Ibn 'Arabi, Abdullah Bosnevi and The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion (Arabic Edition)