The sources of Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

1. Qurʼān God 11 authority 11 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 1 · ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 4 3 passages anchored here

   The passage inserts a recognizable Qurʼānic phrase, marked as a quotation in the printed text, to characterize its own novelty.

   ' It is admissible that by 'the peaks' he intends the heavens, their highest being the Throne, and the summit of the Throne being the all-merciful quality established upon it, as the Real mentioned in His noble Book with His words, 'the All-Merciful is seated upon the Throne' — for the cognitive presence which it contains is matched by the Breath of the All-Merciful coursing through all the realit …

2. Ḥadīth Muhammad 6 authority 6 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 1 · ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 4 2 passages anchored here

   A saying is explicitly attributed to the Prophet and used as the warrant for a compositional decision.

   And what has come down in the ḥadīth, his saying, God bless him and grant him peace, 'God created Adam upon His form' — where what is meant by 'form' is the form that reduces to attribute, as one says 'the form of the question is such-and-such,' according to what the Imām, the Proof of Islam (Ḥujjat al-Islām), and other eminent imāms have verified — is built solely upon what we have indicated, nam …

3. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī 1 authority · 2 extended 3 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 1 · ch. 2 · ch. 3 2 passages anchored here

   The base text is invoked by title as the object of commentary and as the model whose method the glosses adopt, which is an act of extension.

   ' And the discourse in the epistle proper is with the first party, so it would have been more fitting not to turn toward any other than them;

4. Plato 2 endorsed 2 citations

   ch. 2 · ch. 3

   Quoted approvingly as a rule of conduct for the seeker who is denied his worth.

   and be as Plato (*Aflāṭūn*) said:

5. Aphorisms Hippocrates 1 endorsed 1 citation

   ch. 3

   A named work of a named author is quoted and explicitly affirmed as true.

   ' And Buqrāṭ spoke truly when he said in the Aphorisms:

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

ch. 1 1 source

Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq

ch. 2 40 sources

A work of a later man among the people of complete taste on the subtleties of Arabic · The Qurʼan and the Sunnah as sources of indication · The Qurʼan, Sūrat al-Ḥashr on the divine names · The Qurʼan, Sūrat Ṭā Hā on Moses at the fire, the sandals and the sorcerers · The Qurʼan, on Hell encompassing the unbelievers · The Qurʼan, on all affairs coming home to God · The Qurʼan, on devouring the wealth of orphans · The Qurʼan, on everything perishing save His face · The Qurʼan, on the command Be · The Qurʼan, the summons to take heed · The books of the Sufis · The claim that the essential impurity of wine appeared only to the Seal · The conventional philosophy (al-ḥikmah al-rasmīyah) · The dictum that number is a moving intellect · The dictum that the fixed entities have never caught the scent of existence · The doctrine of the Illuminationists on existence and the effect · The doctrine of the Peripatetics on the agent conferring existence · The doctrine of the verifiers on the existent and on the two determinations · The jurists ruling on the essential impurity of wine · The oral report of Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī · The parables on the tongues of the prophecies · The philosophers denial of divine knowledge of particulars · The prophetic warnings and the indications of the friends of God against divulging the realities · The received doctrine of the schools that quiddities are not made · The reported difficulty of one of the Successors about the impurity of wine · The saying that men are asleep and awake when they die · The teaching of Ibn ʻArabī · The teaching of the people of theoretical philosophy on substances in the mind · The theologians doctrine that the knowledge is eternal and the relation originated · The true Law (al-sharīʻah) · Verse on the eyes of the gazelles · Verse on the shirt stitched from twenty-nine letters · al-Fārābī on the positions posited in distance · Ḥadīth of the Prophet seeing the Garden and the Fire while at prayer · Ḥadīth of the prayer to be shown things as they are · Ḥadīth on drinking from vessels of gold and silver · Ḥadīth that sleep is the brother of death · Ḥadīth that the Garden is a level plain whose planting is glorification · Ḥadīth that this world is the sowing-field of the next · Ḥadīth that unbelief is a single creed

ch. 3 12 sources

Dictum of the verifiers that the all is in the all · Doctrine of al-Ghazālī on the form in the ḥadīth · Doctrine of the imāms of unveiling on perpetual glorification · Doctrine of the people of taste on the great and small world · Doctrine of the philosophers on the celestial souls · Doctrine of the verifiers on the predominating attribute in each existent · Interpretation of the clear book by the exegetes · Persian verse on the cup of Jam · Persian verse on the straitened mote as world-displaying cup · Principles of the imāms of unveiling on attributes and essences · Saying of Abū Yazīd on the gnostic's heart · Verse on what the sphere and the angel do not attain

ch. 4 9 sources

Consensus of the people of reason and of transmitted tradition · Doctrine of the Great Shaykh on the world of souls · Doctrine of the Muʻtazilah on the fixed · Terminology of al-Ghazālī for the world of omnipotence · The Shaykh's commentary on the ḥadīth · The science of theology · The verses on the pre-eternal letters · al-Fukūk · al-Nuṣūṣ