The Meccan Revelations, Volume II
by Ibn al Arabi
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Author: Ibn al ArabiEditor: Michel Chodkiewicz
Translator: Denis Gril
Translator: David Streight
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09
ISBN: 1879708213
Number of pages: 269
Publisher: Pir Press
Book Reviews of The Meccan Revelations, Volume II
Book Review: Just a warning about "warning"
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't own this book in English and I cannot tell the quality of the translation. But, let me tell the following as an answer to the "warning" review below.
1) With respect to the "knowledge" of divine truth, It IS a fact that Ali was superior to all people under Mohammad (SAV), except Mohammad (SAV). The Prophet explicitly stated this.
2) Accepting the above fact doesn't make one a defendent of shiism. Shiism is far more complicated to explain and a view in which the role of Ali was exaggerated.
3) All the four caliphs had different qualities which should be respected. And, again accepting the first fact does not necessarily conclude that one was superior to the other in general.
4) Ibn Arabi himself explicitly suggested the ordinary people like us to respect all the contemporaries of the Prophet and the caliphs and not to make extravagant conclusions upon their different qualities and conflicts.
5) Ibn Arabi was not a defendent of shiism.
He was way ahead of ordinary people to be understood correctly. So, make a humble reading and stay away from your own conclusions and dreams and ignore the "warning" review below. He doesn't have knowledge (ilm).
Summary of The Meccan Revelations, Volume II
Perhaps no mystic in the history of the world has delved as deeply into the inner knowledge that informs our being as did Ibn 'Arabi. He was born into the cultural and religious crucible of Andalusian Spain in 1165, a place and time in which Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars learned from each other and from the Greek classics that were then being translated and circulated. Drawing from the most advanced philosophical and metaphysical thinking of his time and from his extensive knowledge of the religion of Islam, Ibn 'Arabi created an extraordinary mystical theology that essentially sprang from his own spiritual realization. Because of the advanced nature of his teachings he has been known for 800 years as the Sheikh al-Akbar, or the Greatest Master.Because of the subtlety of his language and complexity of his thought, access to Ibn 'Arabi has always been difficult and translation daunting. Previously only short extracts were available in English. This volume, is the second of our acclaimed translation of Les Illuminations de la Mecque, and contains more of the "Greatest Shaykh's" wisdom for the first time in English, on such issues as the gnostic and the sacred law, the mystic properties of Quranic letters, the secrets of Forgiveness and the attainment of Divine Nearness.
This great book soars beyond time, culture and any particular form of religion. Describing what is fundamental to our humanity, it is astonishingly universal. Finally readers in the West have an entree into one of the most important, profound works of world literature.
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