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by Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (Author), Pablo Beneito (Translator), Stephen Hirtenstein (Translator)
Prayers for the Week is a very special collection of daily prayers by Ibn ʿArabi and is regarded as one of the most magnificent and beautiful in the Sufi tradition.
There are fourteen prayers, one for each night and day of the week, with an extra introductory prayer. They include an unparalleled depth of knowledge of Union (tawḥīd), and for the one who recites them, they are as much educational as devotional.
This book is an expanded and fully revised version of The Seven Days of the Heart, which was first published in 2000. Over the intervening years we have consulted a very large number of manuscript copies of the Awrād in libraries throughout the world, and compare different readings and lines of transmission. The result is that for the first time we are able to provide an Arabic edition, based on the oldest and best manuscripts available, as well as a full transliteration of the prayers for non-Arabic speakers, and an updated translation and notes, with an accompanying recitation recording. We also decided to reflect the generally accepted title of these prayers by changing the main title to Prayers for the Week
Author Biography
Stephen Hirtenstein is director of Anqa Publishing, Senior Research Fellow of the Muhiyddin Ibn Arabi Society and editor of the Society Journal, and a freelance Senior Editor for the Institute of Ismaili Studies (London). His main research interest is in the works of Ibn 'Arabi and his school, and he has numerous publications including the Unlimited Mercifier and translations of Ibn 'Arabi's works. Pablo Beneito is currently Professor (Profesor Titular) at the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Facultad de Letras, University of Murcia. Specialising in the study of Islamic thought and Sufism, he has taught courses and contributed to conferences in some twenty countries and directed more than 30 international congresses. As an author, editor and translator he has published extensively on Ibn 'Arabi and the mystical tradition. In 2011 he became the Director of MIAS Latina (www.ibnarabisociety.es), and since 2014 the Director and Editor of El Azufre Rojo.
