Widely used for centuries in Sufi circles, the prayer known as "The Most Elevated Cycle" (al-Dawr al-a’la) or "The Prayer of Protection" (Hizb al-wiqaya), written by the great Sufi master Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, has never before been available in English. This book provides a lucid English translation and an edited Arabic text of this beautiful and powerful prayer. It includes a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic, who wish to recite the prayer in the original language. Showing the importance of Ibn ‘Arabi’s devotional teaching, the book explores the prayer’s contemporary life, properties and historical transmission. It gives full details of generations of well-known scholars and Sufi masters who have transmitted the prayer, providing an intimate and fascinating insight into Islamic history.

A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection

Religion & Spirituality

Ibn'Arabi, Muhyiddin

Islam

Anqa Publishing

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

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

The Unlimited Mercifier

These fourteen prayers, revered within the Islamic world for centuries, include expressions of devotion and contemplation and provide a precious glimpse into the real practice of the mystical life within the Sufi tradition.

The Seven Days of the Heart: Prayers for the Nights and Days of the Week

Arabî, Ibn

One of Ibn 'Arabi's first writings, composed when he was just twenty-nine, this work consists of fourteen visions interspersed with dazzling episodes regarding the nature of existence, the human relationship with reality, and true happiness. With helpful notes based on Ibn 'Arabi's own oral commentary, the work is presented for the first time in English.

Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries: Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries and the Rising of the Divine Lights

Inspiring insight into the spiritual depth of Islam is presented in this English translation of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi's Mishkat al-Anwar, one of the most influential early collections of hadith qudsi, the sayings of God as transmitted by Muhammad. The meaning of hadith, hadith qudsi, and the importance of the terms in the text are explained in a comprehensive 90-page introduction. A bibliography, indexes on the individual hadith, the names of the important transmitters, and two appendices on the manuscript sources and chains of transmission provide unfamiliar readers with resources to fully appreciate the work. An Arabic version of the Mishkat al-Anwar, culled from the oldest surviving manuscripts and presented in a handsome calligraphic style, is also included.

Divine Sayings: The Mishkat al-Anwar of Ibn 'Arabi

This is the first book to provide an exchange between the teachings of one of the world's great mystical teachers and modern Western intellectual thought. It analyses the underlying conception of knowledge that permeates the metaphysics of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240), and compares it with the paradigmatic assumptions about knowledge that have permeated much of twentieth-century theoretical culture. In these global times it is curious that the works of Ibn 'Arabi which have had such profound influence upon the Islamic world, should be so little known and little discussed in the Western theoretical architecture of the 21st century. Ibn 'Arabi's remarks on causality, time, contingency, necessity, epistemology, ontology, ethics and aesthetics alone would entice even the most wary of modernity's intellectual authorities. This book deals with the findings of some of these authorities - modern philosophy, social science and psychology - in an open discourse between the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the scientific, the industrial and the personal. It is an invitation to reconsider some of the central tenets of modernity in the light of Ibn 'Arabi's writings on the Unity of Existence.

Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought

Coates, Peter

History

These penetrating metaphysical and spiritual teachings cross the divides of culture and time, providing unexpectedly modern insight.

Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

A detailed overview of the life and teachings of one of the great Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Uftade, is accompanied by an English translation of a collection of his religious poetry in this tribute to the Turkish and Persian spiritual traditions. Uftade’s prominent role in the founding of the Jelvetiyye, one of the main dervish orders, his influence on Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, and his instruction of renowned disciple ’Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, are carefully described alongside the faithfully rendered tenets of his spiritual teachings, augmented by firsthand accounts of his views translated from the journal of a disciple. Uftade's poetry employs simple, direct, and wonderfully human language to express the human yearning for the divine and the ups and downs of the spiritual path.

The Nightingale in the Garden of Love: The Poems of Üftade

Literature & Fiction

Ballanfat, Paul

History & Criticism

Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent initiation into the often complex works of Ibn 'Arabi, this brief, delightful tale is the first English translation of an important, early work, complete with Arabic text, commentary, and notes.

The Universal Tree and the Four Birds (Mystical Treatises of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi)

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