The Openings Revealed in Makkah, Volume 1 (Books 1 & 2), Third Edition (2023)
This is the Third Edition of Volume 1 in hardback which contains Books 1 & 2 of The Openings Revealed in Makkah and the project is anticipated to be completed in nineteen volumes.
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 Kabah 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, al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah has never been translated from the original classical Arabic in its entirety. From 2012, Dr. Winkel has been working exclusively on translating this work in order to produce the first complete translation into English of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah .
This work is the first-ever translation and commentary of the entirety of Muḥyīddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī’s al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah, The Openings Revealed in Makkah, of this masterwork, a project of at least seventeen years. We now have four volumes published by Pir Press (Volume 1, Books 1 & 2, revised edition 2020; Volume 2, Books 3 & 4, 2019; Volume 3, Books 5 & 6, 2020; Volume 4, Books 7 & 8, 2021). The entire al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah (The Openings Revealed in Makkah) is expected to be 19 volumes in hardback, and 37 books in paperback in total, about 12,000 pages in English, inshāʾAllāh.