Concept essays
Time, appointed time and beginninglessness
Distinguishing a relation between events, a measured day and the absence of a beginning.
FUTMAK · English
Translated readings
12 concept essays, 4 research articles and 4 studies, adapted from the Arabic editorial library.
Results: 20
Concept essays
Imagination, images and perception
A reading of khayal that distinguishes the appearing image, the perceiving faculty and the judgment made about it.
Concept essays
Barzakh: separation, connection and the life to come
Reading the two sides of an intermediate relation before treating barzakh as a universal definition.
Concept essays
Heart, intellect and unveiling
A map of receiving, thinking and discerning within Ibn al-Arabi’s account of knowledge.
Concept essays
Divine Names and presences
From the supplicant’s condition to the different relations described in chapter 558.
Concept essays
Manifestation and preparedness
Tajalli read through what appears, who receives it and the relation between them.
Concept essays
Breath, renewed creation and continuing dependence
Keeping nafas, renewed states and fresh knowledge distinct while tracing their connections.
Concept essays
Existence, fixity and preparedness
Distinguishing dependence, knowledge and manifestation before making a general claim about being.
Research practice
Source text, commentary and scholarship
Choose evidence according to the claim you are making and make the chain of transmission visible.
Research practice
Quotation boundaries: omissions, additions and explanation
Keep the source’s wording separate from paraphrase and make editorial interventions visible.
Research practice
When is a passage ready for translation?
Prepare the Arabic wording, references and terminology before deciding on foreign-language equivalents.
Research practice
How to record a difference between witnesses
Describe the evidence before choosing a preferred reading.
Concept essays
Letters and language: reading the levels of meaning
Distinguish a letter, its name and the relationships developed from it.
Concept essays
Love, constancy, intensity and inclination
Read the distinctions among mahabba, wudd, ishq and hawa within their particular contexts.
Concept essays
Mercy: universality, particularity and care
Connect the discussion of mercy with practical care while preserving the differences between contexts.
Concept essays
Conduct, worship and rights
Follow knowledge into action through circumstances, responsibility and the rights of others.
Studies
Barzakh, imagination and careful discrimination
How a boundary joins two sides while preserving their differences.
Studies
Mercy, receptivity and differing judgements
Reading universal giving alongside particular circumstances and responsibility.
Studies
Allusion, inspiration and the limits of inference
Distinguishing a speaker’s intention, a reader’s understanding and a warranted conclusion.
Studies
Generosity: relinquishing your share, respecting another’s right
A reading of futuwwa that keeps the owner of each right in view.