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A thread on #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia people consider the main conduit to be the #Chishti Sufis and their ethical principle of #sulh_e_kull which is assumed to be an expression of #wahdatalwujud 1/
first link is the famous poet Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (d. 1289 in Damascus), a disciple and son in law of #BahauddinZakariyya in #Multan later moved to study with Qunawi and was present at Rumi’s funeral in Konya - later commentators on the #Lamaat linked his verses with #IbnArabi 2/
Persian verse was a major conduit for the dissemination of the metaphysics and hermeneutics of #IbnArabi and for the later tradition two key works were prominent 3/
The first of these is the #Diwan of Muhammad Shirin #Maghribi (d. 1408) edited masterfully by my dearly departed colleague Lenny #Lewisohn (d. 2018) 4/
The second work is the prose and poetical treatise Lavayih of perhaps the greatest poet of the 15th century ‘Abd al-Rahman #Jami (d. 1492) which was influential along with his commentary on the #Lamaat of Iraqi - I picked up this at the old Theosophical Bookshop in mid 90s 5/
Another major conduit was formal commentary on the Fusus al-hikam beginning with the one penned by the #KubrawiSufi of #Kashmir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (d. 1384) - the #Kubrawi #Naqshbandi and #Chishti orders all embraced #IbnArabi 6/
Hamadani’s commentary was published by Jalal Misgarinizhad mistakenly attributing it to a famous #Naqshbandi Sufi influenced by #IbnArabi Khvaja Muhammad Parsa (d. 1420) http://rashedinia.blogfa.com/post/6 7/
Usually two #Mughal figures are mentioned in the context of #IbnArabi in #India studied in two well known articles by #WilliamChittick https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1992.tb03554.x 8/
The second article engages with the controversy raised by Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624) on #wahdatalwujud https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/4chitt.pdf 9/
A more careful study of Sirhindi’s corpus suggests that #wahdatalshuhud is more of a semantic parsing of monism than an actual alternative later taken up by #ShahWaliAllah (d. 1762) https://www.academia.edu/23464906/_Sufism_contra_Shariah_Shāh_Walī_Allāh_s_Metaphysics_of_Waḥdat_al-Wujūd._Brill_Journal_of_Sufi_Studies_5.1_2016_pp._27-57 10/
The first #Mughal figure - and that is apart from major royal figures #Jahanara and #DaraShukoh https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yze6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=muhibb+allah+ilahabadi+british+library&source=bl&ots=-rzgLraGaC&sig=ACfU3U39sd_riP3RxDQDB6XjDSALZ3WgzQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj43cKM7tToAhVWilwKHWAJCNAQ6AEwDnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=muhibb%20allah%20ilahabadi%20british%20library&f=false - is Muhibbullah Ilahabadi (d. 1648) whose Taswiya is a short attempt to explain #IbnArabi in the language of #Avicenna https://www.amazon.com/Equivalence-Al-Taswiya-Muhibb-Allah-Ilahabadi/dp/3639157796 11/
Ilahabadi was extremely prolific writing a Persian and an Arabic commentary on the #Fusus as well as major compendia influenced by the #FutuhatMakkiyya of #IbnArabi like Anfas al-khawass and Tarjamat al-kitab https://www.academia.edu/40580699/Muḥibb_Allāh_Ilāhābādī_South_Asian_Heir_to_Ibn_ʿArabī 12/
As he was a major #Chishti figure the later embrace of #IbnArabi by the #Chishti and philosophically inclined #FarangiMahall thinkers of 18th century and after cemented his role in the intellectual canon of #SouthAsia https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398534 13/
The second major figure is the wonderful but difficult poet Mirza ‘Abd al-Qadir #Bedil (d. 1720) whose verses especially the long #masnavi written late in life #Irfan were heavily influenced by the metaphysics and imagery of #IbnArabi https://ganjoor.net/bidel/ghazalbi/sh2178/ 14/
One of the legacies of #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia are the many translations into Urdu including ones recently produced by the #Rawalpindi based #IbnArabiFoundation http://ibnularabifoundation.org 15/
More recently the #Fusus continued to be read and glossed by the famous #Deobandi figure #AshrafAliThanvi (1863-1943) whose commentary of the #Fusus is a major element of his corpus http://sunnionline.us/arabic/2008/05/225/ 16/
#IbnArabi continues to have a presence in #SouthAsia - contested, championed as an advocate of universal peace against jihadis, translated, and this is even before considering the uses in #Shii and other contexts as well 17/
