Ibn Barrajan

Abu-l-Hakam Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mohammad ibn Barrajan (Arabic: عبد السلام بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن برجان) (born in Seville where he lived, he died in Marrakesh 1141) was one of the greatest Sufi figures of Al-Andalus and a hadith scholar.^[1] He spread his teachings in the first half of the 12th century. He wrote a two-volume commentary on the names of Allah, a famous tafseer, and Ida al-hikma (unedited).^[2] His writings had a great influence on Ibn Arabi.^[3]

He died in prison in Marrakesh, when he was summoned to that city by the Almoravid sultan who feared his influence.^[4] Against the wishes of the sultan he received an official burial on the initiative of Ibn Harzihim.

References

1. ↑ Denis Gril, "La <<lecture supérieure>> du Coran selon Ibn Barragan" in Arabica, Tome XLVII, Brill 2000, page 510, note 1: Ibn al-Abbar calls him "al-Lakhmi al-Ifriqi thumma al-Ishbili", someone from Africa who became a Sevilian.
2. ↑ Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin I. Arabi, Cecilia Twinch, Pablo Beneito, Introduction to Contemplation of the holy mysteries and the rising of the divine lights, Anqa Publishing, 2008 , p. 116
3. ↑ Claude Addas, in Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Manuela Marín, eds., Handbuch der Orientalistik, Part 1, Volume 12, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten. The legacy of Muslim Spain, BRILL, 1992, page 921 and 922 and passim (see index)
4. ↑ Miguel Asín Palacios, Elmer H. Douglas, Howard W. Yoder, The mystical philosophy of Ibn Masarra and his followers, Brill Archive, 1978, p. 122 (on the life of Ibn Barrajan see footnote 8)

• Sarh Asma' Allah Al-Husna: Comentario Sobre Los Nombres Mas Bellos De Dios Ibn Barrajan, Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad; Madrid, 2000. 571pp. ISBN 9788400079765.
• Paul Nwiya, "Notes sur quelques fragments inédits de la correspondence d'Ibn al-'Arif avec Ibn Barrajan"in Hesperis 43 (1956)
• A. Faure, entry "Ibn Barradjan" in: N. Hanif, Biographical encyclopaedia of Sufis: Africa and Europe, Sarup & Sons, 2002, p. 64-65 (retrieved 3-12-2010)