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Donald S. Richards is retired as lecturer in Arabic at the Oriental Institute, and is emeritus fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. He has numerous books and articles to his credit, the latest being The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh. We interviewed Mr. Richards about this book and his future projects.
Your latest publication is a translation of the chronicle of Ali Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir, who wrote his history of the Middle East and further regions in the mid-13th century. Why did you choose to do this project?
To be quite straightforward, in purely personal terms I thought such a project would give me something to keep me mentally active in my retirement and I was also encouraged to take it on by colleagues. However, there were also wider motives. Well over half a century ago scholars, notably such as Sir Hamilton Gibb, stressed how desirable it was that Arabic historical sources be made accessible for researchers who lacked the linguistic expertise to consult them directly. Gibb was thinking above all of westerners engaged in Crusade studies, although the principle had a wider application. Much progress has been made but in the case of Ibn al-Athir’s chronicle, which is accepted to be an
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Ibn Arabi
Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
Not to be confused with Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi.
Ibn ʿArabī (Arabic: ابن عربي, ALA-LC:Ibn ʻArabī; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن عربي الطائي الحاتمي, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Ḥātimī; 1165–1240)[1] was an Andalusi Sunni scholar, Sufimystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic, while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.[2]
His traditional title was Muḥyiddīn (Arabic: محيي الدين; The Reviver of Religion).[3] After his death, practitioners of Sufism began referring to him by the honorific title Shaykh al-Akbar, (Arabic: الشيخ الأكبر)[5] from which the name Akbarism is derived. Ibn ʿArabī is considered a saint by some scholars and Muslim communities.[7]
Ibn 'Arabi is known for being the first person to explicitly delineate the concept of "wahdat al-wujud" ("Unity of Being"), a monist doctrine which claimed that all things in the universe are manifestations of a singular "reality". Ibn 'Arabi equated this "reality" with the entity he descr
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Ibn al-ʿArabī - LAST REVIEWED: 25 Feb 2016
- LAST MODIFIED: 25 Feb 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0206
- LAST REVIEWED: 25 Feb 2016
- LAST MODIFIED: 25 Feb 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0206
Chittick, William. The Muslim Path cataclysm Knowledge: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination. Albany: Tide University call upon New Royalty Press, 1989.
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Chittick, William. The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles systematic Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Cosmology. Albany: State College of Novel York Look, 1998.
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