Saints of the ordinary
hagiographies and sainthood’s function in the “God’s friends” on Risālat Rūḥ al-Quds of Ibn ʿArabī of Murcia (séc. XII-XIII)
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hagiography, holiness, Islam, mysticismAbstract
Awliyā’Allāh, God's friends, are considered the Islamic saints. In this text we will address some Islamic hagiographies (ṭābaqāt - generations) of Andalusian Sufi masters reported by Ibn ʿArabī of Murcia in one of his works, Risālat Rūḥ al-Quds fī muḥāsabat al-nafs (Epistle of the Spirit of Sainthood on the examination of Consciousness of the Soul), a text in which some hagiographies of Sufi masters are considered, considered by the author as saints. For the Murcian author, the saints, or "God’s friends," participated in the perfect condition of servants, an essential element of classification as a saint. As men of God, they were simple, as social men were ordinary, being members of the People of Blame (malāmiyya). In this article we will try to present how the Andalusian saints of Ibn ʿArabī shows de discussion on islamic sainthood and its central feature: the mystical saints as ordinary men and women.
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