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Philosophical Sufism: The School of Ibn al-Arabi I
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Resources
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Chittick, William C. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Chittick, William C. The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Cosmology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Izutsu, Toshihiko. Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Chodkiewicz, Michel. An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn ʿArabī, the Book, and the Law. Translated by David Streight. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Addas, Claude. Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ʿArabī. Translated by Peter Kingsley. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.