INTERACTIONS

INTERACTIONS includes Books 13, 14, 15, and 16 of the thirty-seven books of Ibn al-Arabi&rsquo,s greatest work al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah, the Openings Revealed in Makkah. The Greatest Teacher, al-shaykh al-akbar, Ibn al-Arabi dictated to his close friends this work of over 10,000 manuscript pages depicting the extraordinary vision of the Youth he encountered while circling the Kaabah in Makkah.Despite its clear provenance as a completely accurate work, from the hand and mind of its transcriber, and its reputation through the centuries as the most significant and profound reflection of Islamic thought, the Futuhat al-Makkiyah has never been translated from the original classical Arabic in its entirety. The first complete critical edition of twelve volumes was produced in 2010 by Abd al-Aziz Sultan al-Mansoub, after eleven years of intense study of the original manuscripts. From 2012 this translator has been exclusively working on translating this work in order to produce the first complete translation into English of the Futuhat al-Makkiyah.The Futuhat al-Makkiyah is no conventional religious or philosophical text, it is sui generis. Although the work has been described as a vast collection of &ldquo,metaphysics, cosmology, spiritual anthropology, psychology, and jurisprudence,&rdquo, it is first an integral description of a vision. In order to depict what he saw, Ibn al-Arabi draws on different kinds of language