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.

Objective and illuminating, this treatise, written by Sufi leader Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, presents a fundamental analysis of spiritual practice. Underscoring the importance of silence, seclusion, hunger, and vigilance, this guide demonstrates that these activities are both physical and spiritual. Providing the necessary tools for an enlightened life, this dual-language edition incorporates the first critical edition of the Arabic text, gathered from the best-surviving manuscripts. An introduction, and translation of chapter 53 of the renowned Futuhat al-Makkiyya, are also included.

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.

Providing a precious glimpse into the real practice of the mystical life within the Sufi tradition, this volume marks the first time any of Ibn 'Arabi's prayers have been translated into another language. The 14 prayers include not only the most astounding expressions of devotion and contemplation, but also an unparalleled depth of knowledge of union. The very structure of the prayers is itself a mode of contemplation, making for a unique spiritual experience.

Prayers for the Week is a very special collection of daily prayers by Ibn ʿArabi and is regarded as one of the most magnificent and beautiful in the Sufi tradition.

There are fourteen prayers, one for each night and day of the week, with an extra introductory prayer. They include an unparalleled depth of knowledge of Union (tawḥīd), and for the one who recites them, they are as much educational as devotional.

This book is an expanded and fully revised version of The Seven Days of the Heart, which was first published in 2000. Over the intervening years we have consulted a very large number of manuscript copies of the Awrād in libraries throughout the world, and compare different readings and lines of transmission. The result is that for the first time we are able to provide an Arabic edition, based on the oldest and best manuscripts available, as well as a full transliteration of the prayers for non-Arabic speakers, and an updated translation and notes, with an accompanying recitation recording. We also decided to reflect the generally accepted title of these prayers by changing the main title to Prayers for the Week

We shall return to the Divine Wisdom. And we say, know it like this, that certainly all orders (like Life, Knowledge, Power, ) have no being in their essence ('ayn) (yet) it is certain they are in the mental capacity, intelligible and known. And that it is interior does not diminish it from essential existence and it has determination and effect in everything which is its essential existence. Rather it is the same as itself and no other than itself, I mean the essences of essential existents, and they do not diminish in themselves by being intellectually immanenced as they are interior from the point of view that they are intelligible. And the support of all essential existents in this is the total orders which are not possible to remove from the intellect, and their existence in the Essence ('ayn) is not possible by such an existence through which they could be removed from being intelligible, and it is the same thing whether this existent be temporal or non-temporal.----------Ibn Arabi was Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher, whose works have grown to be very influential beyond the Arab and Muslim world. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar the Greatest Shaykh

Providing a precious glimpse into the practice of the mystical life within the Sufi tradition, this volume marks the first time any of Ibn 'Arabi's prayers have been translated into another language. The 14 prayers include not only the most astounding expressions of devotion and contemplation, but also an unparalleled depth of knowledge of union. The very structure of the prayers is itself a mode of contemplation, making for a unique spiritual experience.

A major work of mystical literature, this account focuses on 14 visions in the form of dramatic conversations with the divine, interspersed with dazzling visionary episodes regarding the nature of existence, humans' relationship with reality, and the way to achieve true happiness. The introduction presents a resume of Ibn 'Arabi's life and examines in detail the style and symbolism of the contemplations. Presented for the first time in English, this work is a superb example of Ibn 'Arabi's inimitable style and deep perception.

Ibn 'Arabi is one of the greatest writers of mystical literature of any era. The voyages recounted in the enigmatic Secrets of Voyaging offer readers an inexhaustible source of reflection on the nature of the journeys of life. This unique book explores the theme of voyage and spiritual unveiling as it plays out simultaneously in the cosmological, scriptural, and mystical domains. This first English translation includes the Arabic text, based on a manuscript in Ibn 'Arabi's own hand and is accompanied by the translator's introduction and extensive notes and commentary.

Die Fusus al-Hikam, das popul rste Werk von Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, handeln von der einen grenzenlosen Weisheit, die gleichzeitig einzigartig in sich selbst ist und vielgestaltig in ihrer Verk rperung durch die Linie der Propheten von Adam ber Moses und Jesus bis hin zu Mohammed. Als solches ist dieses au ergew hnliche Werk ebenso eine Darlegung der innersten Bedeutung der Existenz des Menschen und seiner F higkeit zur Vervollkommnung wie auch eine esoterische Auslegung des Korans und aller drei abrahamitischen Religionen. Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) wurde in Andalusien geboren, kam auf seinen ausgedehnten Reisen schon fr h in pers nlichen Kontakt mit den gr ten Mystikern, Geistlichen und Philosophen seiner Zeit und schrieb selbst ber 350 B cher. Obwohl er sich als unverbl mter Kritiker von religi sem und philosophischem Dogmatismus zahlreiche Feinde schuf, wurde und wird er bis heute als einer der bedeutendsten Sufis aller Zeiten und als Lehrer von unerreichtem Status verehrt. Titel wie Gr ter Meister , Pol des Wissens oder Doktor Maximus zeugen von seiner Anerkennung in Ost und West. Ibn Arabi lehrte als erster Vertreter des SuWsmus und mit gro er Klarheit der Vision die Absolute Einheit aller Existenz und die Wege Ihrer SelbstoVenbarung - eine Botschaft, der gerade in Zeiten aufkeimender religi ser Intoleranz und fundamentalistischer Verblendung ein unsch tzbares Potenzial f r die interkulturelle Verst ndigung innewohnt. Auf diese Weise verlangte die G ttliche Ordnung nach der Kl rung des Spiegels der Welt; und Adam wurde zur Klarheit dieses Spiegels und zum Geiste dieser Form selbst (...) und wurde >MenschStellvertreter Gottes