CHAPTER I

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ABÚ SA‘ÍD IBN ABI ’L-KHAYR

1

CHAPTER II

THE PERFECT MAN

77

   ESSENCE, ATTRIBUTE, AND NAME

89

   THE DESCENT OF THE ABSOLUTE

94

   THE ESSENCE AS GOD

97

   THE HEAVENLY MAN

103

   THE MACROCOSM

121

   THE RETURN TO THE ESSENCE

125

   RELIGION, REVELATION, AND PROPHECY

130

APPENDIX I. JÎLÎ'S ‘Ayniyya

143

APPENDIX II. SOME NOTES ON THE Fuṣúṣu ’l-Ḥikam

149

CHAPTER III

THE ODES OF IBNU ’L-FÁRIḌ

162

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES

267

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

272

INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS, ETC.

278