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Notes to Chapter 3 21. Ibid., 2:310. 22. Corbin, 1969, 185. 23. Fut., 1:119. 24. Ibid., 1:305. 25. Ibid., 1:41. 26. Ibid., 2:311.

27. Burckhardt compares Ibn Arabi’s immutable essences to the Platonic ideas, 1976a, 62–64. 28. Fut., 4:315. 29. Ibid., 2:421; see also 1:90–91. 30. Fut., 3:420. 31. Ibid., 3:416–48. 32. See Abu Zayd, 1983, 97–149. 33. The Soul’s practical faculty is responsible for the manifestation of forms, whereas the intellectual faculty is responsible for knowing their measures and proportions. See Fut., 2:429. 34. Also referred to as al-haba and as al-haqiqa al-kulliyya (Universal Reality), see Fut., 1:118. 35. Murata, 1987, 330. 36. Fut., 1:148. 37. Ibid., 1:199. 38. Ibid., 3:420. 39. See Fus., 1:219; Izutsu, 1983, 134. 40. Fut., 3:420. 41. Fut., 3:420, see also Fus., 1:144. 42. Al-Jurjani, Ta rifat, 319. 43. “Substansia, from sub stare, is literally ‘that which stands beneath’, a meaning also attached to the ideas of ‘support’ and ‘substratum’.” Guénon, 1983b, 26. 44. See Ras., 2: tract 1; Nasr, 1978a, 58–61. 45. Fut., 2:439. 46. Ibid., 1:55. 47. See Schuon, 1969, 103–04.


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