Quest for the Red Sulphur

The Life of Ibn' Arabi

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by Calude Addas,

Translated by Peter Kingsley

Kazi Publications

Due/Published February 1994, 137 pages, paper

ISBN 0946621454

The Quest for the Red Sulphur is undoubtedly a landmark in Ibn 'Arabi studies, and its author's gift of narrative allied to a consummate understanding of the subject should make this volume compulsory reading for anyone interested in Islamic mysticism. For the past eight centuries the profound spiritual influence of Ibn 'Arabi has been a major point of reference in Sufism. Until the publication of this book, anyone who wanted to learn about the life of Ibn 'Arabi has had little choice of materials to work from. This major study is based on a detailed analysis of the whole range of Ibn 'Arabi's writings as well as a vast amount of secondary literature in both Arabic and Persian.