Introduction to the Revelations of the Meca

What are the Futûhât? That is the questions which Dominique Penot Asks. Ibn'Arabî is both praised and attacked.  Verbose author of 846 books (his Futûhât al-Makkiyyah, if they were translated entirely, would occupy more than fifteen thousand pages), he reached a universality rarely reached suggesting a new vision of Islam. Coming from an Andalusian chivalrous tradition, he was a man of knowledge which knew a universal saintliness and a physical spirituality. In an unusual work in his presentation, he delivers a relieved teaching, perplexing at  the first reading and yet depositary of a great science through the Futûhât.   Bearing a great spirituality, he presents himself as a timeless map of great spiritual stations reserved to every man on the path, and guided by a master.