Page 21 - 1..PRESENTATION (ENGLISH)
P. 21
21
HATA does not include the famous mystic from Murcia, Muḥyī l-dīn Ibn al-ᶜArabī,
because there are specific critical writings on his vast and complex body of work, most of it
written outside al-Andalus, as well as an active Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society with a specific
93
project devoted to the preservation of his written legacy. Also, there is an update to his entry in
94
the Biblioteca de al-Andalus, to which we refer the reader.
96
95
No reference is made to documents except in occasional fashion.
We have tried to leave out of HATA information that has been identified as erroneous: for
instance, the notion that Ibn Abī Uṣaybiᶜa (d. 668/1269) was present in al-Andalus and should
97
therefore be counted among the “foreigners” (al-ghurabā’) who visited it. Hoping to set limits
in order to ensure the completion of the corpus, we have tried to keep “deductions” about works
and transmissions to a minimum. For example, it was said of ᶜA. b. M. b. ᶜAbd al-Wārith; Abū l-
98
Ḥasan; al-Gharnāṭī that he transmitted from a large number of teachers, and that he used to read
the Qur’ān in a Cordovan mosque where he served as imām; but we have not included him
93 Y. Osman, Histoire et classification de l’oeuvre d’Ibn Arabī. Étude critique, 2 vols. (Damascus, 1964). The
Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/ Other useful links are:
http://ko2ob.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html
http://almuada.mam9.com/f28-montada
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53849405/%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B1-
%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-
%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A9-
%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1-
%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A#scribd
94 While data for HATA were being collected, information on the works of Muḥyī l-dīn Ibn al-ᶜArabī was included
and a set of file cards was made based on readings of manuscript catalogues (in the days when information was still
recorded on paper). The cards were entrusted to a specialist in Muḥyī l-dīn al-ᶜArabī’s life and works who would be
able to use them, but nothing more has been heard about this card collection.
95 In recent decades attention has been focused on chancellery documents and surviving Andalusi notarial
documents. For the first category see Pascal Buresi’s project (ERC StG IGAMWI 26336: Imperial Government and
Authority in Medieval Western Islam); for the second see projects carried out at the University of Granada and the
Escuela de Estudios Árabes in Granada, such as Teoría y práctica notariales en la Granada nazarí y mudéjar a
través de los documentos arábigogranadinos FFI2009-09897 (2010-2013). For Arabic documents from the
Simancas archive see R. El Hour, “Una reflexión histórica sobre los documentos árabes del Archivo General de
Simancas procedentes de Marruecos,” in M. Ammadi, Francisco Vidal-Castro and María Jesús Viguera Molins
(eds.), Manuscritos árabes en Marruecos y España: espacios compartidos. Sexta Primavera del Manuscrito
Andalusí = Makhṭūṭāt ᶜarabiyya bi-l-Maghrib wa-Isbāniyā: faḍā’āt mushtaraka. Rabīᶜ al-Makhṭūṭ al-Andalusī, al-
dawra al-sādisa. Primavera del Manuscrito Andalusí, 6 (Casablanca: Kuliyyat al-ādāb wa-l-ᶜulūm al-insāniyya
(Jāmiᶜat al-Ḥasan al-Thānī ᶜAyn al-Shuqq) = Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines (Université Hassan II –
Ain Chock) (Rabat: Éditions et Impressions Bouregreg, 2013), pp.55-60. For documents incorporated into literary
sources see M. Fierro, “Documentos legales en fuentes andalusíes,” AQ 22 (2001), pp. 205-09.
96 For example, the pact (sulḥ) between Ibn Hūd al-Mustanṣir bi-llah Sayf al-dawla and ᶜAa. b. ᶜIyāḍ, written by al-
Yasaᶜ b. ᶜĪsā b. Ḥazm al-Ghāfiqī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī (d. 575/1179) in his capacity as secretary.
97 GAL, I, 326-27; SI, 560; Zirikli, I, 197; MK, II, 47-48; EI , IV, 874.
1
98 Whose biography appears in IZ, IV, 111 (229).
HATA does not include the famous mystic from Murcia, Muḥyī l-dīn Ibn al-ᶜArabī,
because there are specific critical writings on his vast and complex body of work, most of it
written outside al-Andalus, as well as an active Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society with a specific
93
project devoted to the preservation of his written legacy. Also, there is an update to his entry in
94
the Biblioteca de al-Andalus, to which we refer the reader.
96
95
No reference is made to documents except in occasional fashion.
We have tried to leave out of HATA information that has been identified as erroneous: for
instance, the notion that Ibn Abī Uṣaybiᶜa (d. 668/1269) was present in al-Andalus and should
97
therefore be counted among the “foreigners” (al-ghurabā’) who visited it. Hoping to set limits
in order to ensure the completion of the corpus, we have tried to keep “deductions” about works
and transmissions to a minimum. For example, it was said of ᶜA. b. M. b. ᶜAbd al-Wārith; Abū l-
98
Ḥasan; al-Gharnāṭī that he transmitted from a large number of teachers, and that he used to read
the Qur’ān in a Cordovan mosque where he served as imām; but we have not included him
93 Y. Osman, Histoire et classification de l’oeuvre d’Ibn Arabī. Étude critique, 2 vols. (Damascus, 1964). The
Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/ Other useful links are:
http://ko2ob.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html
http://almuada.mam9.com/f28-montada
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53849405/%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B1-
%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-
%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A9-
%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1-
%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A#scribd
94 While data for HATA were being collected, information on the works of Muḥyī l-dīn Ibn al-ᶜArabī was included
and a set of file cards was made based on readings of manuscript catalogues (in the days when information was still
recorded on paper). The cards were entrusted to a specialist in Muḥyī l-dīn al-ᶜArabī’s life and works who would be
able to use them, but nothing more has been heard about this card collection.
95 In recent decades attention has been focused on chancellery documents and surviving Andalusi notarial
documents. For the first category see Pascal Buresi’s project (ERC StG IGAMWI 26336: Imperial Government and
Authority in Medieval Western Islam); for the second see projects carried out at the University of Granada and the
Escuela de Estudios Árabes in Granada, such as Teoría y práctica notariales en la Granada nazarí y mudéjar a
través de los documentos arábigogranadinos FFI2009-09897 (2010-2013). For Arabic documents from the
Simancas archive see R. El Hour, “Una reflexión histórica sobre los documentos árabes del Archivo General de
Simancas procedentes de Marruecos,” in M. Ammadi, Francisco Vidal-Castro and María Jesús Viguera Molins
(eds.), Manuscritos árabes en Marruecos y España: espacios compartidos. Sexta Primavera del Manuscrito
Andalusí = Makhṭūṭāt ᶜarabiyya bi-l-Maghrib wa-Isbāniyā: faḍā’āt mushtaraka. Rabīᶜ al-Makhṭūṭ al-Andalusī, al-
dawra al-sādisa. Primavera del Manuscrito Andalusí, 6 (Casablanca: Kuliyyat al-ādāb wa-l-ᶜulūm al-insāniyya
(Jāmiᶜat al-Ḥasan al-Thānī ᶜAyn al-Shuqq) = Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines (Université Hassan II –
Ain Chock) (Rabat: Éditions et Impressions Bouregreg, 2013), pp.55-60. For documents incorporated into literary
sources see M. Fierro, “Documentos legales en fuentes andalusíes,” AQ 22 (2001), pp. 205-09.
96 For example, the pact (sulḥ) between Ibn Hūd al-Mustanṣir bi-llah Sayf al-dawla and ᶜAa. b. ᶜIyāḍ, written by al-
Yasaᶜ b. ᶜĪsā b. Ḥazm al-Ghāfiqī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī (d. 575/1179) in his capacity as secretary.
97 GAL, I, 326-27; SI, 560; Zirikli, I, 197; MK, II, 47-48; EI , IV, 874.
1
98 Whose biography appears in IZ, IV, 111 (229).
