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One of many copies in the #BritishLibrary of al-Tuhfa al-mursala ila (ruh) al-nabi of the (Shattari?) Muhammad b. Fadlallah Mubarakpuri (d. 1619) 1/ Image
#Mubarakpuri wrote the work in 1590 and emanating from Western India into the #Indianocean and #SEAsia it became a major and simple conduit for the dissemination of the #IbnArabiSchool and its metaphysics 2/
In libraries around the world there are numerous copies as well as studies and editions and translations by the like of A.H. Johns books.google.co.uk/books/about/Al… 3/
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Muhsin al-Musawi @Columbia on Islamic #RepublicofLetters @UNDPress on pre-modern #ArabicCosmopolis and the role of literature, grammar, theology and lexicography ImageImageImageImage
Provides further evidence of literary and intellectual creativity that questions old #nahda polemics as well as #decadence and #decline narratives
Of course a reasonable question might be whether in our debunking of the decline thesis we have overcompensated? Not all thought, composition and literary endeavour in the later period was awesome and amazing
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