The spiritual writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader

Author(s)

• ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn, Amir of Mascara
• Chodkiewicz, Michel
• Chrestensen, James
• Manning, Tom

Bibliographic Information

The spiritual writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader

Michel Chodkiewicz ; translated by a team under the direction of James Chrestensen and Tom Manning

（SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions）

State University of New York Press, c1995

• : pbk

Other Title

Mawāqif

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Behind 'Abd al-Kader's role of brilliant warrior lay another, that of spiritual master in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi, the Shaikh al-Akbar (the greatest shaikh). The thirty-nine texts translated here were chosen because they represent the major themes of the teaching of 'Abd al-Kader. Many are commentaries on passages from the writings of Ibn 'Arabi. They offer a rare opportunity to share the illumination of a master writing from his own direct experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction I. On the Way 1 God has Stolen my "I" from Me 2. The Two Ways 3. On Pure Love 4. Perfect Adoration 5. Oh, thou, Soul at Peace 6. What then has He Lost who has Found You? 7. On the Necessity of a Spiritual Master 8. The Two Deaths 9. When the Sight will be Dazed . . . 10. On the Prayer by Day and the Prayer by Night 11. On Certitude 12. He who Speaks and he who Listens 13. On the True Fear of God 14. When the Sun will Rise in the Place of its Setting II. On the Unicity of Being 15. On the Supreme Identity 16. The Truth which should be Concealed 17. On the Eternal Solitude of the Divine Essence 18. Being and Non-being 19. And He is with you wherever you are . . . 20. The Exclusive Orientation 21. Concerning Universal Life 22. The Secrets of the Lam-Alif III. The Theophanies 23. The Face of God 24. Transcendence and Immanence 25. The Light of the Heavens and of the Earth 26. The Theophanies and their Receptacles 27. The Minaret of the Divine Names IV. On God and the Gods 28. He is that . . . 29. The God Conditioned by Belief 30. Concerning "Learned Ignorance" V. On Secondary Causes 31. Divine Knowledge and Divine Decree 32. Concerning the Attribution of Acts 33. On Evil 34. On Secondary Causes 35. The Return to God VI. On the Prophet 36. On the Imitation of the Prophet 37. Concerning Extinction in the Prophet 38. Concerning Abandonment to God 39. Unitive Vision and Separative Vision VII. I am God, I am Creature . . . 40. I am God, I am Creature Notes Index

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• NCID: BA28138799
• ISBN:
  • 0791424456
  • 0791424464
• LCCN: 94028385
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: freara
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 233 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP166
  • DC20 : 297/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Islam -- Doctrines
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20818938