Part 1 Introduction: in search of new perspectives; of oneness and singleness. Part 2 Life in the West: early life (1165-1181); of Adam and Eve; return to God (1182-1184); of prophethood and sainthood; under instruction (1184-1194); of intermediaries and their removal. Part 3 The road to the centre: light beyond the shore (1194-1200); of the heirs and the seals; pilgrim at Mecca (1201-1204); of descent and return. Part 4 From the centre to the circumference: travelling and advising (1202-1224); of love and beauty. Part 5 Established at the crossroads: in Damascus (1223-1240); of book and speech; of East and West. Appendix 1: list of major works. Appendix 2: list of contemporaries.
Stephen Hirtenstein lectures widely on Ibn `Arabi and is the editor of "Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn `Arabi Society".
Stephen Hirtenstein is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and Editor of the Society Journal, as well as director of Anqa Publishing. He also works as a senior editor on Encyclopaedia Islamica, and teaches Sufism and Sufi poetry at the University of Oxford. His particular interest is in the conservation of the existing manuscripts of Ibn Arabis works. His publications include The Unlimited Mercifier (a biography of Ibn Arabi) and translations of shorter treatise (Divine Sayings, The Seven Days of the Heart).
"An important contribution . . . a clear, full, and unusually comprehensible account of a thinker who is notoriously difficult to translate." --Ralph Austin
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