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al- Futūḥāt al-makkīya / Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAlī Ibn-ʿArabī
, 1911 Text in arab.
Ibn-al-ʿArabī
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ReligionsIn 1195 AD, a celebrated Sufi scholar, poet and philosopher Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī quit Muslim Spain for Africa. There, he first became acquainted with ʿuzābīyyah, which he described as the dark arts rooted in the soul’s power over mind and matter. Ibn
Dunja Rašić
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ReligionsThe following article aims at highlighting the theurgical tendencies in the teachings of the great Andalusī Muslim mystic Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165–638/1240).
Michael Ebstein
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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 9, September 2026.Phenolic profile and bioactivity of Lygeum spartum L. ABSTRACT The phenolic composition of roots and leaves of Lygeum spartum L., a Mediterranean Poaceae species, was analyzed by HPLC–DAD, revealing an organ‐specific distribution of phenolic compounds, with ferulic acid identified as the predominant phenolic compound in the methanolic leaf extract (4 ...
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The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan
American Journal of Islam and SocietyThe publication of The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan marks a noteworthy addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic metaphysics, Qurʾanic hermeneutics, and Sufi theology.
Wissam Nuwayhid
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017 The Mystics of al-Andalus by Yousef Casewit, assistant professor of Qur’anic studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, tells the story of an overlooked mystical school of Andalusia, the Muʿtabirun (lit.
Jawad Anwar Qureshi
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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ReligionsAt the beginning of our article (Kars and Bahrani 2022), we mentioned that the Book of Giving [Kitāb al-Ifāda] “appears in the List of Writings [Fihris al-Muʾallafāt] compiled by Ibn al-ʿArabī [...]
Aydogan Kars, Ashkan Bahrani
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