Abū al-Ḥakam ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbd al Raḥmān b. Abī al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Lakhmī al-Ifrīqī al-Ishbīlī (Arabic: عبد السلام بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن برجان اللخمي; died 1141) was an Andalusian

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master and hadith scholar. He spread his teachings in the first half of the 12th century.

Works

Ibn Barrajan wrote a two-volume commentary on the

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and two famous

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s, ''ʾīḍāḥ al-ḥikma'' "Wisdom Deciphered the Unseen Discovered", which exists in a critical edition. and ''Tanbih al-Afham Ila Tadabbur al-Kitab al-Hakim wa Ta'arruf al-Ayat wa-l-Naba al-'Athim'', which is currently in print in three editions. Ibn Barrajan is most famous for his prediction of the conquest of Jerusalem from the

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Saladin Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, h ...

, only being a few days off. His writings had a great influence on

Ibn 'Arabi Ibn Arabi (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic, while over 400 ar ...

, who was quite sceptical of ibn Barrajan's methods of prognostication of the Jerusalem conquest, calling them ''ʿIlm al-Hurūf''.

Death

He died in prison in

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, when he was summoned to that city by the Almoravid sultan

Ali ibn Yusuf Ali ibn Yusuf (also known as "Ali Ben Youssef") () (c. 1084 – 28 January 1143) was the 5th Almoravid emir. He reigned from 1106 to 1143. Early life Ali ibn Yusuf was born in 1084–1085 (477 AH) in Ceuta. He was the son of Yusuf ibn Tashf ...

, who feared his influence.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) Against the wishes of the sultan he received an official burial on the initiative of Ali ibn Harzihim.

References

*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. . *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. 64-6

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