Langage et théologie chez Ab¿ Bakr Ibn al-¿Arab¿ (543/1148)

The Q--- Ab- Bakr Ibn al--Arab- was an A--arite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in the history of ä-arism in al-Andalus, and introduced kal-m books that quickly became references of local teaching, such as the Ir--d of al--uwayn-. He also introduced treatises of u--l al-fiqh such as the Mustäf- and the Man--l of al--az-l-. Ibn al--Arab- is also the most famous disciple of the latter and one of the first to have transmitted his thought to Andalusian scholars, then to the rest of the Muslim West. Through a critical, introduced, translated and commented edition of his sum of legal theory entitled Nukat al-Mä--l f- -ilm u--l, this present work shows how the legal thought of the Q--- is articulated between language and theology.