Mashrabaمشربة

Atlas

Where the texts were lived, written and read. Follow Ibn ʿArabī from Murcia to Damascus; see the Fuṣūṣ travel through its readers and commentators from Konya to Herat and Istanbul; and see its first readers, from the reading certificates written into the manuscript read before the author. Every point carries its source.

Related: the manuscript and the text · read Faṣṣ Ādam

Teachers and companions in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, from his Rūḥ al-quds
SevilleFezTunisCórdobaCeutaBéjaïa (Bijāya / Bugia)MeccaRondaMarchenaAljarafe (al-Sharaf)GranadaRotaPriego de Córdoba (Bāgha)CarmonaDamascusTlemcenMosul
The people, by place
  1. Seville (29): Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿUraynī (al-ʿUryānī); Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Yakhlaf al-Kūmī al-ʿAbsī; Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAdawī (al-Barbarī); Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Sharafī; Abū Yaḥyā al-Ṣinhājī; Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Qassūm; Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Mārtulī; Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ (al-ʿAṣṣād); Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Jarrār (al-Ḥarīrī); Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Jumhūr; Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Shakkāz; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. al-ʿArabī al-Ṭāʾī; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh al-Mawrūrī; Mūsā Abū ʿImrān al-Sadrānī; Ṣāliḥ al-Kharrāz; ʿAbdallāh al-Khayyāṭ (al-Qarrāq); Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Hammām; Abū Aḥmad al-Salāwī; Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Tājah; 'Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Muḥammad' al-Ḥaddād; Ibn al-ʿĀṣ Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Bājī; Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Zayn al-Yāburī; Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Qasṭīlī; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Mundhir; Maymūn b. al-Tūnisī Abū Wakīl; Nūna Fāṭima bint Ibn al-Muthannā; Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. al-Mujāhid; Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ghillīzī; Zaynab al-Qalʿiyya
  2. Fez (7): ʿAbdallāh b. Jaʿdūn al-Ḥinnāwī; ʿAbdallāh b. Takhmīst; Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Mahdawī; ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. al-Naqarāt; Mūsā al-Muʿallim; al-Ashall al-Qabāʾilī; ʿAbdallāh Badr al-Ḥabashī
  3. Tunis (7): al-Ḥājj Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh al-Burjānī; Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Nābilī; Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Murābiṭ; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Khamīs al-Kinānī; Ibn al-Ḥakīm al-Kaḥḥāl; Ibn Jaʿfar; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Bakr al-Qurashī al-Mahdawī
  4. Córdoba (3): Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh al-Qaṭṭān; Abū Muḥammad Makhlūf al-Qabāʾilī; Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Qazzāz
  5. Ceuta (3): Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ṭarīf al-ʿAbsī; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Ibrāhīm al-Mālaqī al-Qalfāṭ; Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. al-Ṣāʾigh
  6. Béjaïa (Bijāya / Bugia) (3): Abū Isḥāq al-Qurṭubī; Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan al-Ḥasanī; Abū Madyan Shuʿayb
  7. Mecca (3): Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Kharrāz; The seven persons; Slave girl of Qāsim al-Dawla
  8. Ronda (2): Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qanūnī; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Ḥinnāwī
  9. Marchena (2): Shams, Umm al-Fuqarāʾ (Yāsamīn); ʿAbd al-Majīd b. Salama
  10. Aljarafe (al-Sharaf) (1): Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf al-Shubarbulī
  11. Granada (1): Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh al-Bāghī al-Shakkāz
  12. Rota (1): Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Rundī
  13. Priego de Córdoba (Bāgha) (1): Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Bisṭām al-Bāghī
  14. Carmona (1): Yūsuf b. Taʿizza
  15. Damascus (1): Aḥmad al-Sharīshī
  16. Tlemcen (1): Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ṭarṭūsī
  17. Mosul (1): ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Jāmiʿ

Basemap: Natural Earth 1:50m land (public domain) via world-atlas; conic conformal projection. Coordinates from Wikidata (CC0).

Where the sources disagree (18)
  • Birth day: 28 July 1165 (Iranica) · 27 July 1165 (Anqa) (Both give 17 Ramaḍān 560.)
  • Death day: 10 November 1240 (Iranica) · 9 November 1240 (Anqa) (Both give 22 Rabīʿ II 638.)
  • Final departure from the West: 597/1200 left Spain (Iranica, Anqa) · 1201 left the Muslim West (SEP) · 598/1201 still in Tunis (Hirtenstein) (Compatible if 1200 = leaving al-Andalus and 1201 = leaving Tunis.)
  • Fez ascension (Kitāb al-Isrāʾ): 1198/594 (Hirtenstein) · 1197 (Anqa)
  • ʿAnqāʾ mughrib: c. 595/1199, last year in Spain (Hirtenstein) · Almería 596 (Elmore, cited by Gril)
  • Ishārāt al-Qurʾān: Jerusalem 602/1206 (Hirtenstein) · Malatya, 13 Ramaḍān 601 (Veliyuddin 51 note, Clark and McAuley)
  • Order of the 601–603 eastern journey: Baghdad–Mosul (601) then Anatolia; Konya 602; Cairo 603 (Tahrali, Veliyuddin table) · Kitāb al-Alif begun in Jerusalem 601 (Hirtenstein)
  • Second Baghdad stay: 608/1211 (Tahrali) · 608/1212 (Hirtenstein)
  • Return to Mecca: 611/1214 (Tahrali) · Ramaḍān 611/1215 (Hirtenstein, Tarjumān)
  • Malatya period: 612–618/1215–1221, at least six years (Hirtenstein; MIAS 'After Ibn Arabi') · four years, 1216–20 (Tahrali)
  • Second version of the Futūḥāt: completed 636/1238 (Hirtenstein) · finished within four years of December 1231 (Anqa)
  • al-Qūnawī's birth: 606/1210 (Iranica; SEP 1210) · 605/1209, subject to debate (Clark)
  • al-Qūnawī's relation to Ibn ʿArabī: stepson (Iranica, SEP) · son-in-law (MIAS writings page, Chittick) (Clark: marriage to al-Qūnawī's mother is reported by some biographers such as Jāmī.)
  • al-Jandī's death: ca. 700/1300 (Iranica); 700/1300 (Clark) · c. 691/1291 (repo lineage.json, unsourced)
  • al-Qāshānī's death: 730/1330 (Iranica) · 730/1329 (Clark) · 730/1329 or 736/1335–6 (MIAS writings page)
  • al-Farghānī's death: 695/1296 (Iranica) · 699/1300 (MIAS 'After Ibn Arabi')
  • Üftāde's death: Tahrali prints 968/1580; 968 AH = 1560–61 CE (Internal inconsistency in the source.)
  • Ibn Turka's textual link: paraphrases al-Jandī (Iranica) · linked to al-Qayṣarī, low confidence (repo lineage.json)
Not on the map, for want of a source (7)
  • Marrakesh, Bijāya (Bougie) and other named Moroccan/Algerian stops of 595–597: Gril says only 'several cities of Morocco'; not mapped.
  • Medina visit: not found in the fetched open sources.
  • Muṣṭafā Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663, in lineage.json): no open source found; not included in 'transmission'.
  • Al-Qayṣarī's origin in Kayseri and al-Qāshānī's association with Kashan: implied by nisba only; not asserted.
  • Home places of Bābā Rukn al-Dīn Shīrāzī and Molla Fanārī: not stated in the fetched sources (entries kept with place null).
  • A single open page stating that Evkaf 1933 is held in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul: Brill's full introduction is not openly accessible; the location rests on the shelfmark plus the museum's own history page.
  • Wikipedia was used only to resolve place names to Wikidata items, not as a citation.