附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-424) and indexes.
Defining the approach -- The biographical prelude -- Between Damascus and Cairo: the affair of Ibn ʻAbd al-Salam -- Ibn Taymiyya's formidable challenge -- Ibn ʻArabi in the biographical literature form the 8th, 14th-9th, 15th centuries -- The metaphysical argument revisited: al-Taftazani -- Ibn ʻArabi in the Muslim west: a prophet in his own land? -- Egypt: the polemic continues -- Ibn ʻArabi in Yemen.