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History Of Mysticism

Mysticism is that point of view which claims as its basis an intimate knowledge of the one source and substratum of all existence, a knowledge, which is obtained through a revelatory experience during a rare moment of clarity in contemplation. Those who claim to have actually experienced this direct revelation constitute an elite tradition, which transcends the boundary lines of individual religions, cultures and languages, and which has existed, uninterrupted, since the beginning of time. It is, as Aldous Huxley points out, the “perennial philosophy” that resurfaces again and again throughout history in the teachings of the great prophets and founders of all religions.
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Burhan al-Siddiqin

The proof of God given by the Shaykh al-Ra'is was used by falasifa as well as non-falasifa, and rendered with an agreed structure. Despite its major profile in Islamic intellectual history and the continuing interest in such arguments in the philosophy of religion, recent interpretations of it vary widely.
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A Treatise On Love by Ibn Sina

IBN SINA'S Risalah fi'l- 'ishq, a translation of which .is offered here, was edited critically by M. A. F. Mehren in 1894' and again in Cairo in 1917, the latter edition being mostly, though not invariably, in agreement with the former. Our translation is based on Mehren's edition as the critical one of the two but attention is drawn to any important deviation of the Cairo edition. Mauscripts in addition to those used by these two editions are listed by Brockelmann" and Ritter.
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Kitab al-Fana' fi-l Mushahadah

"The Book of Annihilation in the Contemplation" is one of the numerous short treatises by the Shaykh al-akbar, elucidating themes which also appear at various times in the Futuhat al-Makkiyyah.
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Ibn Arabi's Mentor

The Tunisian Sufi master, 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Mahdawi, played a timely role in the coming-of-age of the great mystical theoretician, Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-'Arabi (known to later ages as al-Shaykh al- Akbar, "the Greatest Master").
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An Introduction to Ibn 'Arabi's Mishkat al-Anwar

The Mishkat al-Anwar consists of 101 hadîth qudsi collected and arranged by Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. It has few of Ibn 'Arabi's own words in it.
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