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
Table des matières
Introduction
the Prayers of Ibn ‘Arabi; the Divine Work; the three worlds and the three persons; the structure of the Awrād; the seven days and seven nights; the day of Muhammad; the Awrād: manuscripts and translation
The Prayers: translation and notes
Preface Prayer ; Sunday (eve and morning); Monday (eve and morning); Tuesday (eve and morning); Wednesday (eve and morning); Thursday (eve and morning); Friday (eve and morning); Saturday (eve and morning)
Notes to the prayers
Appendices
A Time according to Ibn ‘Arabi’s Ayyām al-shaʾn
B the creative week of the Soul
C Abjad system
D on the meanings of the letters Alif and Wāw
Bibliography
Transliteration
Arabic text of the Awrād