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Las iluminaciones de La Meca. Textos escogidos
Pocas autoridades espirituales del Islam resultan tan apasionantes y suscitan tanto interés en Oriente y Occidente como el célebre Ibn ‘Arabî; probablemente ningún otro autor sufí haya ejercido una influencia más profunda y perdurable en la vida intelectual del Islam durante estos siete últimos siglos. Su importancia reside en que sea su enseñanza la formulación más profunda y completa de las doctrinas del sufismo, hasta entonces diseminadas en distintos tratados.
A este fecundo autor andalusí, nacido en Murcia en el año 1165 y fallecido en Damasco en el año 1240, se deben más de trescientas obras, pero la summa de todos sus tratados, síntesis de su enseñanza iniciática, son Las iluminaciones de La Meca, auténtica «enciclopedia» espiritual del autor.
Sirviéndose de una experiencia espiritual extraordinaria y del dominio magistral de la lengua árabe, Ibn ‘Arabî no sólo perfecciona exposiciones doctrinales y métodos anteriores, sino que consigue, de manera prodigiosa, crear la síntesis de la espiritualidad islámica sufí por excelencia.
En este volumen se ofrece la primera traducción íntegra de tres textos escogidos que introducen esta obra maestra del esoterismo islámico. En su conjunto, dichos textos resultan esenciales para la comprensión de los fundamentos de la cosmovisión propia del mayor maestro del sufismo.
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Published April 1, 1996
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Ibn ʿArabi
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Universally known by the title of "Muhyi al-Din" (The Reviver of the Religion) and "al-Shaykh al-Akbar" (The Greatest Shaykh) Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-`Arabī al-Hāṭimī al-Ṭā'ī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي).
Muhammad ibn al-Arabi and his family moved to Seville when he was eight years old. In 1200 CE, at the age of thirty-five, he left Iberia for good, intending to make the hajj to Mecca. He lived in Mecca for some three years, where he began writing his Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations). In 1204, he left Mecca for Anatolia with Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq, whose son Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qunawī (1210-1274) would be his most influential disciple.
In 1223, he settled in Damascus, where he lived the last seventeen years of his life. He died at the age of 76 on 22 Rabi' II 638 AH/November 10, 1240CE, and his tomb in Damascus is still an important place of pilgrimage.
A vastly prolific writer, Ibn 'Arabī is generally known as the prime exponent of the idea later known as Waḥdat al-Wujūd (literally Unity of Being), though he did not use this term in his writings. His emphasis was on the true potential of the human being and the path to realising that potential and becoming the perfect or complete man (al-insān al-kāmil).
Some 800 works are attributed to Ibn 'Arabā, although only some have been authenticated. Recent research suggests that over 100 of his works have survived in manuscript form, although most printed versions have not yet been critically edited and include many errors.
Universally known by the title of "Muhyi al-Din" (The Reviver of the Religion) and "al-Shaykh al-Akbar" (The Greatest Shaykh) Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-`Arabī al-Hāṭimī al-Ṭā'ī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي).
Muhammad ibn al-Arabi and his family moved to Seville when he was eight years old. In 1200 CE, at the age of thirty-five, he left Iberia for good, intending to make the hajj to Mecca. He lived in Mecca for some three years, where he began writing his Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations). In 1204, he left Mecca for Anatolia with Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq, whose son Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qunawī (1210-1274) would be his most influential disciple.
In 1223, he settled in Damascus, where he lived the last seventeen years of his life. He died at the age of 76 on 22 Rabi' II 638 AH/November 10, 1240CE, and his tomb in Damascus is still an important place of pilgrimage.
A vastly prolific writer, Ibn 'Arabī is generally known as the prime exponent of the idea later known as Waḥdat al-Wujūd (literally Unity of Being), though he did not use this term in his writings. His emphasis was on the true potential of the human being and the path to realising that potential and becoming the perfect or complete man (al-insān al-kāmil).
Some 800 works are attributed to Ibn 'Arabā, although only some have been authenticated. Recent research suggests that over 100 of his works have survived in manuscript form, although most printed versions have not yet been critically edited and include many errors.
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December 10, 2024Dos texto pequeños donde se nota muy bien el dogmatismo musulman, doctrinal más que iluminador.
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