[IBN ARABÎ / BULAQ IMPRINT / FINE BINDINGS] شجرة الكون الشيخ الا كبر سيدى محي الدين العربى رضى الله عنه / Shajarat al-Kawn: Al-Sheikh al-Akhbar Saydi Muhy al-Din ibn Arâbî Radhallahu Anh [i.e., Tree of the universe by the Greatest Master Ibn Arabî]

IBN ARABÎ (Abû ‘Abd Allâh Muḥammad ibn ‘Arabî al-Tâ’î al-Ḥâtimî) (1165-1240). Matbaat al-Kebîrî Bulak / Al-Kâghedhâna al-Husayn Beg Husni, Bulak, AH 1292 = [1876]. Contemporary fine full burgundy leather, gilded borders on front and rear boards. Original decorative red endpapers. Small 4to. (26 x 16 cm). In Arabic. 22 p. Marginal notes in red ink by contemporary ex-owner, a small tear with a minuscule loss on the right lower corner of the endpaper, and another small tear on the second leaf without any losses. Otherwise, a very good copy in a handsome fine binding.  Extremely rare first edition of a treatise on Sufism by Ibn-i Arabî, a well-known Andalusi Arab scholar, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought in the golden age of the Islamic world. This important Islamic work was published more than fifteen times under the name of Ibn Arabî (previous editions were anonymous) after it was attributed to him in some 18th and 19th century manuscripts. This early Islami