Interpreting Ibn ?Arabi

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction
The Problems (mushkil?t) of the Fu???: Interpretive Divergences
From the Lack of Understanding (?adam al-fahm): Solving the Problems of the Fu???
The Present Study: Interpreting Ibn ?Arab?

1 "All is He, All is Not He": The Vision of Huwa-l? Huwa
The Entities (a?y?n) are Not Made (ghayr maj??l) and Non-Existent (ma?d?m)
The Mirror-Entities and the Color-Entities
The Pre-Existent Forms (?uwar) of the Entities: The Cloud, the Barzakh, the Creator-Real

2 Divine Power and Human Freedom
The Essence (Dh?t) and the Divinity (Il?h), Determination (taqd?r) and Creation (khalq)
Freedom and Compulsion, Responsibility (takl?f) and Predestination (qadar)

3 Incomparability and Similarity
To Affirm Incomparability is to Affirm Limitation (ta?d?d) and Restriction (taqy?d)
Transcending the God of Beliefs (al-il?h al-mu?taqad?t)
The Divinity Clothed in Forms of Belief: Worshiping the Idols of Belief

4 "Created in his/His Form": The All-Comprehensive Form of Man
Originated and Beginningless (??dith azal?), Perpetual and Endless (d??im abad?)
The Problem of Man's Firstness (awwaliyya)
Creation (khalaqa) in Two Senses: Determination (taqd?r) and Existentiation (?j?d)

5 Becoming a Form of God (??rat al-?aqq)
The False Form (??ra b??ila) of the Pharaoh of Moses (Fir?awn M?s?)
The Form of al-Kharr?z, One of the Tongues of God (lis?n min alsinat al-?aqq)

6 The Messenger takes his Knowledge from the Seal of the Saints
The Prophets (anbiy??) in the Fu??? al-?ikam
The Seal of the Saints: "the space for two bricks" (maw?i? labinatayn)

7 Interpreting the Qur??n
Between ta?w?l, ish?ra, and ?ub?r: Ibn ?Arab?'s Qur??nic Hermeneutics
Abraham's Sacrifice (dhab?), God's Deception (makr), Drowning in Knowledge

8 The Hermeneutics of Mercy
The Faith of Pharaoh (?m?n Fir?awn) in Q. 10:90-92
From Torments (?adh?b) to the Sweetness of Torments (?udh?ba)

Conclusion: Interpreting the Shaykh al-Akbar
"He/not He" Revisited: Ambiguity and Knowledge as Perplexity (?ayra)
"He who does not know the status of imagination has no knowledge"

Bibliography
Index