The Inner Path
الكُتُبُ الكَبِيرَة

The great treatises

Chapter 9 · al-kutub al-kabīra

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Key concepts

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Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam — Ibn ʿArabī
Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya — Ibn ʿArabī
Mathnawī — Rūmī
Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn — al-Ghazālī
Mishkāt al-Anwār — al-Ghazālī
Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq — Suhrawardī
Al-Insān al-Kāmil — al-Jīlī

Introduction to the chapter

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Major authors on this question

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