ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jīlī (d. c. 812/1408)

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Important Shi`i Sufi, Irfani thinker of the school of Ibn `Arabi. See H. Ritter in EI ² vol. 1: ADD. Brockelmann GAL II:264 + Supp. II 283-4.

On his death date see Valerie J. Hoffman `Annihilation in the Messenger of God: The Development of a Sufi Practice' in  International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Aug., 1999), pp. 351-369 --

"There has been a great deal of disagreement as to the date of death of al-Jili, ranging from 1402/3, as indicated on some of the published editions of Al-Insan al-kamil (The Perfect Man), to 1428, the date provided by Carl Brockelmann in his Geschichte der arabischen Literatur. I rely on information from Michel Chodkiewicz, who, in a letter dated 23 May 1995, wrote that the India office manuscript of Ghunyat arbab al-sama` (Sufficiency of the Masters of Audition) by al-Jili states (f. 295b) that al-Jili's son wrote at the end of a manuscript of Al-Insan al-kamil that his father died in Jumada II 811 (November 1408 A.D.). Although Louis Massignon says that he saw al-Jili's tomb in Baghdad (Receuil des textes in- edits concernant i'histoire de la mystique en pays d'lslam [Paris, 1929], 148, n. 2), Chodkiewicz writes that al-Jili is buried in Zabid next to his shaykh, al-Jabarti, and that a recent letter from Yemen indicates that his tomb is still visited" (Hoffman 1999: 366 fn.6).

 

al‑Jīlī, `Abd al‑Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm  (d. c. 812/1408).

 

 

al‑Insān al‑kāmil fī ma`rifat al‑awākhir wa'l‑awā'il.

From Brockelmann GAL., [1949] II:264.

• al‑Insān al‑kāmil fī ma`rifat al‑awākhir wa'l‑awā'il.  2 vols in 1. Cairo: Mustāfa al‑Bābī al‑ḥalabī, 1375/1956.  *

• Titus Burckhardt, De L-Homme Universal `Abd al-Karim al-Jili extraits du Livre al-Insan al-Kamil., Paris: Dervy Livres, 1975, 1986 (103pp.)  *

• `Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī. Universal Man. Extracts translated by Titus Burckhardt. Beshara Publications, 1983 (75pp.).  *

• al-Kahf wa'l-Raqīm fī Sharḥ Bismillah al-Raḥman al-Raḥim. al-Maktabat al-Maḥmūdiyya al-Tijariyya. Cairo: XXX al-Jami` al-Azhar (32pp.).*
• قصيدة النادرات العينية = Qaṣīdat al-nādirāt al-ʻaynīyah ed.  Yūsuf Zaydān; ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl Nābulusī, Beirut: Dar al-Jil, 1408/1988.
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• Qaṣīda al-Nādirāt al-`ayniyya. with Commentary of al-Nablisi ed. Yūsuf  Zaydān, Beirut: Dar al-Jil. 1408/1988. (208pp.).*
• شرح مشكلات الفتوحات المكية =  Sharḥ mushkilāt al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah.   ʻĀṭif Jawdah Naṣr. Cairo : Dār al-Kutub wa-al-Wathāʼiq al-Qawmīya, 2003.
• Sharḥ Mashkalat al-Futuhat al-Makiyya l-Ibn `Arabi. ed. Yusuf Zaydan. Cairo: Dar al-Sa`ād al-Subbāḥ. ( 251+ index pp.). ISBN 977-00-2869-X. *
• al-Nāmūs al-a`ẓam wa'l-qāmūs al-aqdam ("The Supreme Law and the Preexistent Pen"). mss. Brockelmann GAL II:264.
• al-Ghayat fi ma`rifat ma`ani al-ayat wa'l-ahadith al-mutashabihat. mss. Brockelmann GAL II:264.
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• Zulfat al-tamkin. mss. Brockelmann GAL II:264.
• Maratib al-wujud ("The Gradations of Existence"). In this work 40 degrees of being are enumerated (Ritter, XXX).
• الكمالات الإلهية في الصفاتالمحمدية لعند الكريم الجيلي = al-Kamālāt al-Ilāhīyah fī al-ṣifāt al-Muḥammadīyah li-ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī  ed.  Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ.   Cairo: ʻĀlam al-Fikr, 1997.  ISBN: 9772540401 9789772540402
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• حقيقة الحقائق التي هي للحق من وجه ومن وجه للخلائق Ḥaqīqat al-ḥaqāʼiq allatī hiya lil-Ḥaqq min wajh wa-min wajh lil-khalāʼiq :  ضبط نصوص هذا التراث وترجم لمؤلفه مع تحرير المدخل لفحوى بدوي طه علام. علام، Ghūrīyah [Cairo] : Dār al-Risālah, XXXX/1982.
•  النادرات العينية  =  al-Nādirāt al-ʻaynīyah.   ed. Yūsuf Zaydān; ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl Nābulusī.  Cairo : Dār al-Amīn, 1999.  ISBN: 9772792230 9789772792238
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• الاسفار عن رسالة الانوار فيما يتجلى لاهل الذكر من الانوار = al-Asfār ʻan Risālat al-anwār fīmā yatajallá li-ahl al-dhikr min al-anwār.  Damascus: Muhammad Rajab, 1929. CHECK
• شرح رسالة التوحيد : لعبد الكريم بن إبراهيم الجيلاني  = Sharḥ Risālat al-Tawḥīd : li-(ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jīlānī) Ed. . ʻAlī ibn Naqī Aḥsāʼī; Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad Dabbāb Beirut [?]:  Muʼassasat al-Balāgh / Muʼassasat Shams Hajr, 2007.

• Journey to the Lord of Power : a Sufi manual on retreat by Ibn al-ʻArabī; ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm Jīlī. New York : Inner Traditions International, 1981. *

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secondary Sources

 al-Ghunaymī, Najah Mahmud

• Al-Manazir al- ilahiyya li'l'-Shaykh `Abd al-Karim al-Jili. Cairo: Dar al-Manar, 1987.
• ‏المناظر الإلهية ؛‏ ‏ويليه، شرح مشكلات الفتوحات المكية لابن عربي
  al-Manāzir al-Ilāhīyah : wa-yalīhi Sharh mushkilāt al-futūhat al-makkīyah li-ibn 'Arabī. l'tana' bi-himā 'Āsim Ibrāhīm al-Kayyal̄ī  Cairo: Dar al-Manah, 1987 
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• ‏المناظر الإلهية ؛‏ ‏ويليه، شرح مشكلات الفتوحات المكية لابن عربي ... Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 2004
   

 Ḥakīm, Suʻād:

•  إبداع الكتابة وكتابة الإبداع : عين على العينية .. شرح معاصر لعينية الإمام الصوفي عبد الكر الجيلي 
  Ibdāʻ al-kitābah wa-kitābat al-ibdāʻ : ʻayn ʻalá al-ʻAynīyah-- sharḥ muʻāṣir li-ʻAynīyat al-Imām al-Ṣūfī ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī
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Zaydān, Yūsuf,

• عبد الكريم الجيلي : فيلسوف الصوفية
• ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, faylasūf al-Ṣūfīyah [Cairo] : al-Hayʾah al-Miṣriyyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1988. ( 266 pp.).