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- Title
Ibn Barrağān and Ibn 'Arabī on the Prediction of the Capture of Jerusalem in 583/1187 by Saladin.
- Authors
Bellver, Jose
- Abstract
During the celebration of the capture of Aleppo by Saladin on safar 18th, 579/June 11th, 1183, the qāḍī Muhyī 1-Dīn b. Zakī l-Dīn al-Dimašqī recited a poem in which he ventured the possibility of conquering Jerusalem in the month of rağab, as this was the case four years later in 583/1187. Muhyī 1-Dīn b. al-Zakī was asked about the source of his prediction and he answered that he found it in Ibn Barrağān's Commentary of the Koran in the beginning of sura al-Rūm (Kor 30,1-4), where the predicted year of the capture was also right. Even though the prediction became well-known, there is no account of the particular way it was obtained, except for the text in Ibn Barrağān's Koranic commentary. Instead, we only have later authors stating that Ibn Barrağān based his analysis upon astrology. Some time later, in his al-Futūhāt al-makkiyya, Ibn 'Arabī considered twice Ibn Barrağān's prediction and drew the same result by applying the science of letters to the same Koranic verses. However, Ibn 'Arabī pointed out that Ibn Barrağān had committed an error and that his prediction was right by chance. This paper is devoted to the study of Ibn Barrağān and Ibn 'Arabī's methods applied to draw the prediction of the Muslim capture of Jerusalem in 583/1187. It supplies the translations of Ibn Barrağān's text in his Commentary of the Koran and those of Ibn 'Arabī in al-Futūhāt al-Makkiyya.
- Subjects
JERUSALEM; IBN Barrajan, 'Abd al-Salam ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, d. 1141; IBN al-Arabi, 1165-1240; QUR'AN; DIVINATION; SUFISM
- Publication
Arabica, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 3/4, p252
- ISSN
0570-5398
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15700585-12341294