Primary Texts

Texts by Ibn ‘Arabî

• ‘Anqâ mughrib fî khatm al-awliyâ’ wa shams al-maghrib, G. T. Elmore (trans.), Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Book of the Fabulous Gryphon, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.
• Fusûs al-hikam, A. ‘Afîfî (ed.), Beirut: Dâr al-Kutub al-‘Arabî, 1946. (Scholar)
• Fusûs al-hikam, Binyamin Abrahamov (trans.), Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Fusûs al-hikam: An Annotated Translation of “The Bezels of Wisdom”, London: Routledge, 2015. (Scholar)
• Fusûs al-hikam, R. W. J. Austin (trans.), Ibn al’Arabî: The Bezels of Wisdom, Ramsey: Paulist Press, 1981. (Scholar)
• Fusûs al-hikam, C. K. Dagli (trans.), The Ringstones of Wisdom, Chicago: Kazi, 2004.
• al-Futûhât al-makkiyya, Cairo, 1911; reprinted, Beirut: Dâr Sâdir, n.d. (Scholar)
• al-Futûhât al-makkiyya, 14 volumes, O. Yahia (ed.), Cairo: al-Hay’at al-Misriyyat al-‘Âmma li’l-Kitâb, 1972–91. (Scholar)
• al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya: Textes choisis/Selected Texts, M. Chodkiewicz, W. C. Chittick, C. Chodkiewicz, D. Gril, and J. Morris (trans.), Paris: Sindbad, 1989; also available as The Meccan Revelations, 2 vols., New York: Pir Press, 2002–4. (Scholar)
• al-Futûhât al-makkiyya, Chapter 167, L’alchimie du bonheur parfait, S. Ruspoli (trans.), Paris: Berg International, 1997.
• Inshâ’ al-dawâ’ir, in H. S. Nyberg, Kleinere Schriften des Ibn al-‘Arabî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1919.
• Inshâ’ al-dawâ’ir, “The Book of the Description of the Encompassing Circles”, P. B. Fenton and M. Gloton (trans.), in Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi: A Commemorative Volume, Hirtenstein, S. and M. Tiernan (eds.), Shaftesbury: Element, 1993, pp. 12–43.
• al-Isfâr ‘an natâ’ij al-asfâr, D. Gril (ed. and trans.), Le dévoilement des effets du voyage, Combas: Editions de l’Éclat, 1994.
• Ittihâd al-kawnî: The Universal Tree and the Four Birds , Angela Jaffray (trans.), Oxford: Anqa, 2006.
• Kitâb kashf al-ma‘nâ ‘an sirr asmâ’ Allâh al-husnâ, P. Beneito (ed. and trans.), El secreto de los nombres de Dios, Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, 1997.
• Mashâhid al-asrâr al-qudsiyya, S. Hakim and P. Beneito (ed. and trans.), Las Contemplaciones de los Misterios, Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, 1994.
• Mashâhid al-asrâr al-qudsiyya, P. Beneito and C. Twynch (trans.), Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries, Oxford: Anqa, 2001.

Other Primary Texts

• Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ), al-Najât, M. S. al-Kurdî (ed.), Cairo: Matba‘at al-Sa‘âda, 1938. (Scholar)
• –––, al-Shifâ’: The Metaphysics of The Healing: A Parallel English-Arabic Text, M. E. Marmura (ed. and trans.), Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2005. (Scholar)
• Mullâ Sadrâ, 2008, Spiritual Psychology: The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy, tr. Latimah-Parvin Peerwani, London: ICAS Press. (Scholar)
• Qûnawî, Sadr al-Dîn, al-Fukûk, M. Khwâjawî (ed.), Tehran: Mawlâ, 1992.
• –––, al-Murâsalât: Annäherungen: Der mystisch-philosophische Briefwechsel zwischen Sadr ud-Dîn-i Qônawî und Nasîr ud-Dîn-i Tûsî, G. Schubert (ed.), Beirut: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995.
• –––, al-Nafahât al-ilâhiyya, M. Khwâjawî (ed.), Tehran: Mawlâ, 1996.
• –––, “al-Nusûs: The Texts,” William C. Chittick (trans.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4: From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism, S.H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi (ed.), London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 416–34. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Addas, C., 1993, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabî, Cambridge, England: The Islamic Texts Society. (Scholar)
• Almond, I., 2004, Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ‘Arabi, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Asín Palacios, M., 1931, El Islam cristianizado, Madrid. French trans. as L’Islam christianisé: Étude sur le Soufisme d’Ibn ‘Arabî de Murcie, Paris: Guy Trédaniel, 1982. (Scholar)
• Akti, Selahattin, 2016, Gott und das Übel: Die Theodizee-Frage in der Existenzphilosophie des Mystikers Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, Lucerne: Chalice Verlag. (Scholar)
• Bashier, S., 2004, Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, The Story of Islamic Philosophy: Ibn ‘Arabî, Ibn Tufayl, and Others on the Limit between Naturalism and Tradition, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Böwering, G., 1994, “Ibn ‘Arabî’s Concept of Time”, in God is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty: Festschrift in Honour of Annemarie Schimmel, Alma Giese and J. Christoph Bürgel (eds.), New York: Peter Lang, pp. 71–91. (Scholar)
• Burckhardt, T., 1977, Mystical Astrology According to Ibn ‘Arabi, Gloucestershire: Beshara Publications. (Scholar)
• Chittick, W. C., 1982, “The Five Divine Presences: From al-Qûnawî to al-Qaysarî”, The Muslim World, 72: 107–28. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989, The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Metaphysics of Imagination, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994a, Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‘Arabî and the Problem of Religious Diversity, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994b, “Rûmî and Wahdat al-wujûd”, in Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rûmî, A. Banani, R. Hovanisian, and G. Sabagh (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 70–111. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Ibn ‘Arabî” and “The School of Ibn ‘Arabî”, in History of Islamic Philosophy, S. H. Nasr and O. Leaman (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 497–523. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabî’s Cosmology, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “The Central Point: Qûnawî’s Role in the School of Ibn ‘Arabî”, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, 35: 25–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, Ibn ‘Arabi: Heir to the Prophets, Oxford: Oneworld. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Ibn ‘Arabî on the Ultimate Model of the Ultimate”, Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 915–29. (Scholar)
• Coates, P., 2002, Ibn ‘Arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously, Oxford: Anqa. (Scholar)
• Chodkiewicz, M., 1993a, An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn ‘Arabî, the Book, and the Law, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993b, The Seal of the Saints, Cambridge, England: The Islamic Texts Society. (Scholar)
• Corbin, H., 1958, L’imagination créatrice dans le soufisme de Ibn ‘Arabî, Paris: Flammarion; trans. Ralph Manheim, Creative Imagination in the Sûfism of Ibn ‘Arabî, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969; re-issued by Princeton University Press as Alone with the Alone, 1998.
• Dagli, Caner, Ibn al-‘Arabî and Islamic Intellectual Culture, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• DeCilis, Maria, 2013, Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn ‘Arabi, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Dobie, R. J., 2007, “The Phenomenology of Wujud in the Thought of Ibn ‘Arabi”, in Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life, A. T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 313–22. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, Logos & Revelation: Ibn ‘Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
• Ebstein, Michael, 2013, Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-‘Arabî and the Ismâ`îlî Tadition, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Ghandour, Ali, 2018, Die theologische Erkenntnislehre Ibn al-Arabis, Hamburg: Editio Gryphus. (Scholar)
• Hakîm, S. al-, 1981, al-Mu‘jam al-sûfî, Beirut: Dandara. (Scholar)
• Heath, P., 1992, Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ), With a Translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad’s Ascent to Heaven, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Izutsu, T., 1966, A Comparative Study of the Key Philosophical Concepts in Taoism and Sufism, Tokyo: Keio University; second edition, Sufism and Taoism, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. (Scholar)
• –––, 1977, “The Concept of Perpetual Creation in Islamic Mysticism and Zen Buddhism”, in Mélanges offerts à Henry Corbin, S. H. Nasr (ed.), Tehran: Institute of Islamic Studies, pp. 115–48; reprinted in Izutsu, Creation and the Timeless Order of Things, Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press, 1994, pp. 141–73. (Scholar)
• Knysh, A. D., 1999, Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Lala, Ismail, 2019, Knowing God: Ibn ‘Arabî ‘Abd al-Razzâq al-Qâshânî’s Metaphysics of the Divine, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Lipton, Gregory A., 2018, Rethinking Ibn Arabi, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mayer, T., 2008. “Theology and Sufism”, The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, T. Winter (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 258–87. (Scholar)
• McAuley, D. E., 2012, Ibn ‘Arabî’s Mystical Poetics, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Morris, J., 1986–87, “Ibn ‘Arabi and his Interpreters”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 106: 539–51, and 107: 101–19. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “Ibn ‘Arabî’s Rhetoric of Realisation: Keys to Reading and ‘Translating’ the ‘Meccan Illuminations,’” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, 33: 54–99, and 34: 103–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Arabî’s Meccan Illuminations, Louisville: Fons Vitae. (Scholar)
• Murata, Sachiko, 1992, The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought, Albany, State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, Chittick, W. C., and Tu Weiming, 2008, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Nettler, R. J., 2003, Sufi Metaphysics and Quranic Prophets: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Thought and Method in the Fusus al-Hikam, Oxford: Islamic Texts Society. (Scholar)
• Rahmati, Fateme, 2007, Der Mensch als Spiegelbild Gottes in Der Mystik Ibn ‘Arabis, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Scholar)
• Rosenthal, F., 1988, “Ibn ‘Arabî between ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Mysticism’”, Oriens, 31: 1–35. (Scholar)
• Sells, M. A., 1994, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Shah-Kazemi, R., 2006, Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart, Bloomington: World Wisdom. (Scholar)
• Smirnov, A. V., 1993, “Nicholas of Cusa and Ibn ‘Arabî: Two Philosophies of Mysticism”, Philosophy East and West, 43: 65–86. (Scholar)
• Stelzer, S., 1996, “Decisive Meetings: Ibn Rushd, Ibn ‘Arabî, and the Matter of Knowledge”, Alif, 16: pp. 19–55. (Scholar)
• Takeshita, M., 1982, “An Analysis of Ibn ‘Arabî’s Inshâ’ al-Dawâ’ir with Particular Reference to the Doctrine of the ‘Third Thing’”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 41: 243–60. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, Ibn ‘Arabî’s Theory of the Perfect Man and its Place in the History of Islamic Thought, Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. (Scholar)
• Todd, Richard, 2014, The Sufi Doctrine of Man: Sadr al-Dîn al-Qûnawî’s Metaphysical Anthropology, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Yousef, M. H., 2007, Ibn ‘Arabi—Time and Cosmology, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Zargar, C. A., 2011, Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ‘Arabi and ‘Iraqi, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. (Scholar)
• Zine, Mohammed Chaouki, 2010, Ibn ‘Arabi: Gnoséologie et manifestation de l’être, Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers. (Scholar)