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Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation:
Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights
This book offers a sustained philosophical study of sarayān—the “permeation” of the Real (al-Haqq) throughout existence—in Ibn ʿArabi’s metaphysics. While the doctrine of waḥdat al-wujūd (the unity of being) has long stood at the center of Islamic metaphysical thought, the dynamic principle that makes this unity experientially and cosmologically intelligible has rarely been examined in its own right. Here, permeation emerges as the living grammar of divine presence. Through a close reading of Fusus al-Hikam, the book reconstructs Ibn ʿArabi’s ontology of continuous theophany, fixed entities, imagination, and the Perfect Human. Select insights from Plotinus’ doctrine of emanation serve not to reduce Ibn ʿArabi to Neoplatonism, but to clarify the philosophical structure of procession, mediation, and return. The comparison operates at the level of conceptual analogy rather than historical influence. Beyond ontology, this study explores the ethical and existential implications of a world understood as continuously permeated by the Real. If existence itself is theophany, then nature, human relations, and ordinary life become sites of divine disclosure. Permeation thus appears not only as a metaphysical principle, but as a transformative vision capable of reshaping perception, responsibility, and lived experience.
Keywords:
Ibn ʿArabi, Sarayān (Permeation), Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Unity of Being), Islamic Metaphysics, Plotinus and Neoplatonism, Tajallī (Divine Self-Disclosure), Insān al-Kāmil (Perfect Human)
- Author: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
- Editor: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
- Publisher: Immortal Echoes Press, 2026 (www.immortalechoes.org), Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- ISBN: 978-1-9195486-2-3 (Hardcover)
- ISBN: 978-1-9195486-1-6 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-9195486-0-9 (PDF eBook)
Table of Contents
Preface vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Notes on Texts and Translations x
Transliteration Guide xiii
Introduction 1
Key Terms and Conceptual Framework 2
Historical and Intellectual Context 7
Literature Review 10
Structure of the Book 12
Chapter 1: Ontological Foundations of Permeation 13
1.1. Supreme Locus of Manifestation, Fixed Entities, and Universals 14
1.2. Necessity, Contingency, and the Real’s Continuous Presence 22
1.3. Transcendence and Immanence 29
1.4. Plotinian Hypostases as Ontological Parallels 31
Chapter 2: Divine Breath: Mediation and Mechanics of Permeation 38
2.1. The Divine Breath and Perpetual Theophany 39
2.2. Receptivity (Qābiliyya) and the Ontological Differentiation of Permeation 46
Chapter 3: Permeation in the Perfect Human 54
3.1. The Perfect Human as the Supreme Barzakh of Permeation 55
3.2. The Perfect Human as the Epistemic Summit 66
3.3. Plotinian Metaphysics and the Perfect Human 70
Conclusion and Implications 79
Appendices 92
Appendix A 92
Appendix B 94
Glossary of Key Terms 96
Bibliography 100
Index 103
Forthcoming Books
Persian Mystical Poetry: Selected Translations and Studies
Series Editors:
Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
About the Series. This series presents Persian mystical poetry in a way that is both accessible and intellectually grounded. While we remain open to producing complete translations of an author’s entire works, our primary aim is more focused: we offer thematic translations, annotations, and commentaries drawn from Persian mystic poets, within a tradition where philosophy and mysticism take shape through poetic expression. Translating and explaining an entire poetic corpus, such as the full Divan of Rumi, requires an immense investment of time and scholarly labor. For that reason, such projects are rare, and few translators can carry them through. To meet this challenge, we adopt a different model. Each volume concentrates on one central theme within a poet’s work. It typically presents between thirty and fifty poems, together with the translator’s explanations, either as restrained annotations or as more detailed, line-by-line commentaries. Throughout, we aim to ground the poems in the poet’s broader intellectual corpus and in the historical and spiritual tradition from which they emerge. We also write with two audiences in mind. Our goal is to produce translations and studies that speak to general readers as well as scholars; we aim to be theoretically informed, yet practically useful. For this reason, even when the material is demanding, the language across the series is adjusted to the public, without giving up conceptual precision or interpretive seriousness.
The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poems (Translations and Studies)
Translated and Annotated by Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
Volume 1
Series: Persian Mystical Poetry: Selected Translations and Studies
Coming soon
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
Philosophy of Religion, Istanbul University
rahbari.ghazani@immortalechoes.org
Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
PhD, Islamic Philosophy, IAU, Science and Research Branch, Tehran
davoodi.kahaki@immortalechoes.org
Advisory Board:
- Cyrus Ali Zargar, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, Cyrus.Zargar@ucf.edu
- Sajjad Rizvi, Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, S.H.Rizvi@exeter.ac.uk
- Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic Mysticism and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, USA, omid.safi@duke.edu
- Reza Akbari, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Theology, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, r.akbari@isu.ac.ir
- James W. Morris, Professor, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, USA, james.morris.4@bc.edu
- Mukhtar H. Ali, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, mhali@illinois.edu
- Sayeh Meisami, Professor of Philosophy, University of Dayton, USA
- Rebecca Ruth Gould, Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS University of London, UK rg52@soas.ac.uk
- Stephen Voss, Professor of Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, voss@boun.edu.tr
- Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Professor of Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, sidiropu@boun.edu.tr
- Roger Sedarat, Professor, the English Department, Queens College, City University of New York, USA, roger.sedarat@qc.cuny.edu
- Mohammad Saeedimehr, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, saeedi@modares.ac.ir
- Claudia Yaghoobi, Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, yaghoobi@email.unc.edu
- Qodratullah Qorbani, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, qodratullahqorbani@khu.ac.ir
- Kayhan Özaykal, Assistant Professor of Philosophy of religion, Faculty of Theology, the Department of Philosophy of Religion, İstanbul Üniversitesi, kayhan.ozaykal@istanbul.edu.tr
- Amir Abbas Alizamani, Associate Professor of Philosophy, School of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Iran, amir_alizamani@ut.ac.ir
- Rasoul Rasoulipour, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, rasouli@khu.ac.ir
- Yasin Apaydin, Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy, Phlilosophy and Religious Studies, Istanbul University, Türkiye, yasin.apaydin@istanbul.edu.tr
- Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, The Theological School, Drew University, USA, ckeller@drew.edu
Peer Review Panel:
- Sajjad Rizvi, Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK, S.H.Rizvi@exeter.ac.uk
- Reza Akbari, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Theology, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran, r.akbari@isu.ac.ir
- Roger Sedarat, Professor, English Department, Queens College, City University of New York, USA, roger.sedarat@qc.cuny.edu
- Mohammad Saeedimehr, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, saeedi@modares.ac.ir
- Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, sidiropu@boun.edu.tr
- Claudia Yaghoobi, Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, yaghoobi@email.unc.edu
- Qodratullah Qorbani, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities,Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, qodratullahqorbani@khu.ac.ir
- Kayhan Özaykal, Assistant Professor of Philosophy of religion, Faculty of Theology, the Department of Philosophy of Religion, İstanbul Üniversitesi, kayhan.ozaykal@istanbul.edu.tr
- Amir Abbas Alizamani, Associate Professor of Philosophy, School of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Iran, amir_alizamani@ut.ac.ir
- Rasoul Rasoulipour, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, rasouli@khu.ac.ir