Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi (Murcia , 28 Julie 1165 – Damaskus, 10 November 1240) was 'n Arabiese ^[1] Islamitiese teoloog uit Moorse-Spanje, en die grootste verteenwoordiger en teoretikus van Soefisme. Hy staan bekend as die "Grootste Sheikh" (al-Sheikh al-Akbar) van Soefisme.

Ibn al-Arabi het wyd gereis, sy reise en indrukke het gewoonlik 'n mistieke Soefi-inslag. Volgens sy verhale het hy Al-Khidr drie keer ontmoet.

Biografie[wysig | wysig bron]

Ibn Arabi is in 'n adellike Arabiese familie in die stad Murcia gebore, terwyl die Almorawiede Andalusië regeer het. Hy was omring deur edeles, intellektuele en askete. Ibn Arabi het goeie onderwys ontvang in Sevilla (Ishbilia), wat die hoofstad en kulturele sentrum van die Almohad-kalifaat word.

In 1172 het die Moslems 'n swaar nederlaag gely as gevolg van die Reconquista. Hy gee die loopbaan van 'n amptenaar prys en berei hom voor vir die geestelike pad. In 1180 ontmoet hy in Córdoba met Averroes. Hy word uiteindelik 'n Soefi in 1184.

Literatuur[wysig | wysig bron]

(en) Addas, Claude, Quest for the Red Sulphur, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 1993. ISBN 0-946621-45-4.
(en) Addas, Claude, Ibn Arabi: The Voyage of No Return, Cambridge, 2019 (second edition), Islamic Texts Society. ISBN 9781911141402.
(en) Akkach, Samer, Ibn 'Arabî's Cosmogony and the Sufi Concept of Time, in: Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Carol Poster and Richard Utz. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Pp. 115-42.
(en) Titus Burckhardt & Bulent Rauf (translator), Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi (The Fons Vitae Titus Burckhardt Series) ISBN 1-887752-43-9
(en) Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone; Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of IbnʿArabī, Bollingen, Princeton 1969, (reissued in 1997 with a new preface by Harold Bloom).
(en) Elmore, Gerald T. Ibn Al-'Arabī’s Testament on the Mantle of Initiation (al-Khirqah). Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society XXVI (1999): 1-33. Print.
(en) Elmore, Gerald T. Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn Al-‘Arabī's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Print.
Hirtenstein, Stephen (1999). The Unlimited Mercifier, The Spiritual life and thought of Ibn 'Arabi. Anqa Publishing & White Cloud Press. ISBN 978-0953451326.
Hirtenstein, Stephen, and Jane Clark. Ibn 'Arabi Digital Archive Project Report for 2009 Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi 1165AD - 1240AD and the Ibn 'Arabi Society. Dec. 2009. Web. 20 Aug. 2010.
Knysh, Alexander. Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The making of a polemical image in medieval Islam. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999.
(sv) Torbjörn Säfve, Var inte rädd, ISBN 91-7221-112-1

Verwysings[wysig | wysig bron]

↑ Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past. Sarah Bowen Savant.

[genealogy-1] Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past. Sarah Bowen Savant.

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