DOI: 0.62125/2303-6826.2025.28.103-104.106
UDK 28:821.163.4(497.6)
Author
Berin Bajrić
Summary
This study examines the intellectual and spiritual relationship between Ibn ʻArabi (1165–1240) and ʿAlī-dede Bošnjak (1540–1598), one of the most prominent Bosnian-born scholars and Sufi thinkers of the sixteenthcentury Ottoman world. By analysing Ali-dede’s major works – particularly Muḥāḍarat al-awāʾil wa-musāmarāt al-awākhir and H̱̱ awātim al-ḥikam ḥall al-rumūz wa-kašf al-kunūz – the article demonstrates that Ali-dede operated within the broader Akbarian intellectual tradition and that his metaphysical framework is deeply indebted to concepts articulated by Ibn ʻArabi in the Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya and the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Special attention is given to Ali-dede’s understanding of time, cosmic cycles, the hermeneutics of the “eternal now”, and the structure of spiritual realms – all of which reflect a direct reception and creative rearticulation of Ibn ʻArabi’s ontology. Rather than a mere compiler, Ali-dede emerges as an original thinker who adapted Akbarian metaphysics into a distinct Ottoman-Bosnian intellectual idiom. The article thus contributes to a deeper understanding of how Ibn ʻArabi’s school spread across the Ottoman scholarly milieu and highlights Ali-dede Bošnjak’s significance within the broader history of Islamic thought.
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URL: https://www.ibn-sina.net/en/akbarian-metaphysics-in-the-ottoman-bosnian-context-ibn-arabis-thought-in-the-works-of-alauddin-ali-dede-bosniak/