6.5.29 - Completing the Second Recension of the Meccan Revelations (24 Rabii I 636/1238)

As we mentioned in sections

effutuhat1e and

effutuhat2i above, Shaykh Muhyiddin wrote the Meccan Revelations twice, where he started in his first visit to Mecca in 598/1202 and took him about thirty years to complete in 629/1231, and then he started the second recension in 632/1235 to be completed in this year 636/1238. As he stated, the new copy is slightly different from the first one, where he added and deleted as he saw appropriate.

This second recension is preserved today in Evkaf Muzesi 1845-81 manuscript, which is a holograph that Ibn al-Arabi wrote in 37 volumes between 632-636 AH, although volume 9 seems to be a facsmilie that has been copied at a later date.

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The First Page of the Second Edition of the Meccan Revelations.

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The Last Page of the Second Edition of the Meccan Revelations.