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Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam

The Bezels of Wisdom: Ibn ʿArabī’s concentrated account of the wisdom revealed through twenty-seven prophets.

Also: Bezels of Wisdom

Sufism and Islamic thought

The Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, written in 1229, presents in twenty-seven chapters the divine wisdom set like a gem in the bezel of each prophet, from Adam to Muhammad. Short and difficult, it became the most commented text of Sufi metaphysics and the source of controversy over the oneness of being.