The horizons of being : the metaphysics of Ibn al-ʻArabī in the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī / translation and commentary by Mukhtar H. Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 or 1351, author.

Contributor:

Ali, Mukhtar H., 1975- translator.

Standardized Title:

Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Muqaddimah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240. Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 or 1351. Maṭlaʻ khuṣūṣ al-kalim fī maʻānī Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Muqaddimah.

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd.

Sufism--Early works to 1800.

Sufism.

Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (Ibn al-ʻArabī).

Ibn al-Arabi, 1165-1240. Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 or 1351. Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Muqaddimah.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

vi, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Summary:

"The Horizons of Being explores the teachings of Ibn al-'Arabī by examining Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī's (d. 1350) Prolegomena (muqaddima) to his commentary, Maṭla' khuṣūṣ al-kilam fī ma'ānī Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (A Preamble of Select Discourse on the Meanings of the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam), referred to simply as Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī. While his commentary represents the third in a direct line going back to Ibn al-'Arabī through Kāshānī, Jandī and Qūnawī, it remains one of the most popular due to its thorough and accessible treatment of the Fuṣūṣ that frequently synthesizes the ideas of his predecessors. The Muqaddima stands on its own as an independent work and has been the subject of careful study. If the al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya contains the entirety of Ibn al-'Arabī's metaphysics which is distilled in the Fuṣūṣ, then Qayṣarī's Muqaddima can be read not just as a precis of the Fuṣūṣ but a summary of Ibn al-'Arabī's doctrine"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: The horizons of being

ISBN:

9789004425248

9004425241

OCLC:

1142878139