Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Kitāb Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam wa-Khuṣūṣ al-Kalim

Marco Aurelio Golfetto (Ph.D., University of Venice) is a researcher at the University of Milan. He teaches Arabic language and culture. He has published on Language Teaching and Sufism, including the Italian translation of al-Ghazālī’s K. al-Murāqaba wa-l-muḥāsaba.

Acknowledgements

Introduction



1 Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam

 1 Ibn al-ʿArabī and His Spiritual Legacy

 2 Books with a Special Status

 3 A Century of Research on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam

 4 Key Concepts in the Thought of Ibn al-ʿArabī



2 The Reception of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Work

 1 The Reception and the Rise of Polemics

 2 Attitudes toward the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam

 3 Interpolation of the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam according to al-Shaʿrānī

 4 Al-Ghurāb and the Last Challenge to the Text’s Authenticity

 5 The Academic Counterargument and the Codicological Turning Point



3 The Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam: Story of a Manuscript

 1 The Making of the Copy

 2 Al-Qūnawī’s Endowment and the Fate of the Manuscript

 3 Missing Root: the Lost Original



4 The Present Edition

 1 Description of the Manuscript

 2 Principles of the Edition

 Addendum







Critical Edition



Bibliography

Index of Names, Places and Works

Index of Quranic Verses