The Platonic Current

Ibn ʿArabī d. 638/1240

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ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ d. 632/1235

Cairene poet, contemporary of Ibn ʿArabī; author of the Wine Ode (al-Khamriyya), read in the library with al-Būrīnī and al-Nābulusī

Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī d. 673/1274

stepson and closest disciple; the earliest manuscript (Golfetto's base) is his copy, read before the author

learned from Ibn ʿArabī (high)

Ḥasan al-Būrīnī d. 1024/1615

Born in Safed 963/1556, taught Shāfiʿī law at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus; commentator on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Dīwān (al-Baḥr al-fāʾiḍ: grammar, rhetoric, lexicon, then the sense), printed with al-Nābulusī's notes by Rushayd al-Daḥdāḥ (Marseille 1853; Cairo 1289/1872) (TDV)

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ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī d. 1143/1731

Damascene scholar and Sufi, "the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria" and "an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts" (Sirriyeh); an Akbarian commentator of the Fuṣūṣ (Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ), arguing like Ibn ʿArabī without simply repeating him, amid the polemics over Ibn ʿArabī in Damascus (Lane); his Kashf al-sirr al-ghāmiḍ on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Dīwān supplies the notes marked (ن) in the Cairo print

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ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī d. 690/1291

companion and disciple of al-Qūnawī

learned from Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (high)

Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī d. c. 700/1300

disciple of al-Qūnawī, under whom he read the Fuṣūṣ; author of the first full commentary

learned from Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (high)

ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (Kāshānī) d. 730/1330

studied the Fuṣūṣ with al-Jandī; reports a copy al-Jandī read before al-Qūnawī

learned from Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī (high)

Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī d. 751/1350

student of al-Qāshānī; his commentary became the standard in the madrasas

learned from ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (Kāshānī) (high)

Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka d. 835/1432

Timurid-era philosopher-Sufi; later, textual rather than personal link

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī d. 898/1492

Naqshbandī poet-scholar; drew on al-Qayṣarī and al-Qāshānī

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Muṣṭafā Bālī Zāde d. 1073/1663

Ottoman scholar; the Ottoman commentary tradition

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ʿAbdallāh al-Bosnawī (Abdullah Bosnevî) d. 1054/1644

Ottoman, born in Bosnia; studied in Bosnia, Istanbul and Bursa (under Hasan Kabâdûz); a leading Bayrāmī-Melāmī; travelled to Egypt, the Hajj and Damascus; died in Konya and buried beside al-Qūnawī. His Fuṣūṣ commentary is in Ottoman Turkish (TDV)

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Liu Zhi 劉智 d. after 1724

Chinese Muslim scholar of Nanjing; translated Jāmī's Lawāʾiḥ into Chinese as the Zhenjing zhaowei and cites it, with Jāmī's Ashiʿʿat al-lamaʿāt, throughout the Tianfang xingli (1704)

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