About The Book

The sixth of thirty-seven books of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s magnum opus al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah, translated and conveyed by Shuʿayb Dr Eric Winkel

Book 6 is devoted to the mysteries of the prayer, the intimate conversation with one’s Lord, moving through the places of prayer and the call to prayer, and including the validity of the prayer leadership of the man by the woman.

‘Learn that you, the human being, are a universe in yourself, immense from the perspective of the meaning dimension even if you are insignificant in bodily size.’ In this universe there is a man, a woman, and an unruly child.