The Openings Revealed in Makkah, Volume 7

By Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyiddin ibn al-Arabi
Translated by Shuayb Eric Winkel

The Futuhat Project is the translation project by Dr. Eric Winkel of the entirety of The Openings Revealed in Makkah, al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah by Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi. Volume 7 (Books 13 & 14) continues with the 155 questions, and contains Ibn al-ʿArabī’s rhythmical list of ṣūfī terms prompted at the 153rd question. With the end of the 155 questions comes the end – with answers in abbreviated form, as Ibn al-ʿArabī’s informs us! – of the first of the six sections of The Openings Revealed in Makkah etched in light in the body of the Youth. Now he commences with the opposites: the truth of turning for forgiveness, and abandoning the turn for forgiveness; the truth of patience, and the abandoning of patience. We enter the world of vast unendingness, where we turn from and to, and to God and to God and yet again to God. Dr. Winkel has been working exclusively on translating this work in order to produce the first complete translation into English of the Futuhat-Makkiyah.

ISBN-13: 9781945083662

7.25 x 10.5 - Hardcover, 842 pages