Ibn al’Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom
By Ibn ʿArabī
Translated by R. W. J. Austin
Paulist Press, New York, 1980, Classics of Western Spirituality
First written c. 1229
About this text
Austin’s translation of Ibn ʿArabī’s most studied work: twenty-seven chapters, each on the wisdom revealed through a prophet, from Adam to Muḥammad, setting out the self-disclosure of God in the world and the perfect human being. Read with the introductions.
How to cite
Ibn ʿArabī. Ibn al’Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom: Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam. Translated by R. W. J. Austin. Classics of Western Spirituality. Paulist Press, New York, 1980.
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Traditions
Concepts
- Waḥdat al-wujūdThe “oneness of being”, the teaching associated with Ibn ʿArabī and his school.
- The perfect human beingIn the school of Ibn ʿArabī, the human being who fully reflects all the names of God.
- UnityOneness, in the sense of wholeness, identity or union.
- BeingThe fact or act of existing; the subject of ontology.