hand, they have made forecasts of the future where fancy has been allowed to reign in attempting to foretell what is likely to happen in our department, and to depict, in eloquent and fascinating descriptions, the anticipated improvements which our successors will achieve either by their own efforts or by building on the foundations of their predecessors. Truth, however, surpasses fiction in ma...

While most traditional works on the life of Prophet Muḥammad focus how his ostensible teachings and actions can be used as a template for human conduct, thirteenth-century Sufi thinker, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 638/1240), turns attention to spiritual significance inner reality Muḥammad. Ibn argues that seal prophets, was not only given Qur’an, which incorporated elements from previous revela...