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Help complete these texts

Central works that, as far as we have found, a reader of English cannot yet read in full. Each has been begun: part of the text is prepared, and some of it is already readable here with AI English that no person has yet checked. A sponsorship would help finish it: the rest of the text, a careful translation, and a scholar's review.

• Tamhīdātتمهیدات

  ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī, d. 525/1131

  A book of Persian Sufi prose by a man executed in his early thirties, written a century before Ibn ʿArabī.

  We have found no complete English translation. Begun: the first Tamhīd is prepared from a digital text, not yet proofread by a person and not yet on a reader page. It belongs beside the Persian texts already in the reader (Gulshan-i rāz, Manṭiq al-ṭayr).

• Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikamشرح فصوص الحكم

  ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, d. c. 730/1330

  The most-used commentary on Ibn ʿArabī's Fuṣūṣ, the book the reader already holds.

  We have found no English translation. Begun here: chapters 1 and 15 from a printed witness, with chapters 2–6 in a typed text; it sits beside the Fuṣūṣ, chapter by chapter.

• Kitāb khatm al-awliyāʾكتاب ختم الأولياء

  al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, d. c. 295/910

  The source of the idea of the Seal of the Saints, which Ibn ʿArabī later answers in the Fuṣūṣ.

  We have found no English translation. Begun here: the preface and chapters 1–8, about a third of the book; short enough to finish.

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