Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Mahdawī, Ibn al-ʿArabī's Mentor

Bibliographic Data

ID3963371
AuthorsGerald T Elmore (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume121
Issue4
Pages593
Publication date2001-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/606501
OpenAlexW2889845338
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The Tunisian Sūfī master, ⊂Abd al-⊂Azīz al-Mahdawi, played a timely role in the coming-of-age of the great mystical theoretician, Muhyī 1-Dīn Ibn al-⊂Arabī (known to later ages as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the Greatest Master). The latter's monumental Futūhāt al-makkīyah was dedicated to al-Mahdawi, but, more significantly, the passages that were addressed directly to him often seem to evince more personal susceptibility than was customary in pre-modern literature. In this article we examine all of the available information on al-Mahdawi-from Ibn al-⊂Arabī's writings and from later sources, as well as a written work that has been ascribed to him-with a view to understanding the nature of the relationship between the two men and the sense in which Shaykh al-Mahdawi can, indeed, be described as Ibn al-⊂Arabī's mentor

Ancient history · Art · Literature · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy

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