The Book Aristotle Never Wrote: Neoplatonism and the Sufi Tradition

A ninth-century Arabic text, attributed to Aristotle, that wasn't written by Aristotle.
The real author was Plotinus — a third-century Egyptian Neoplatonist who died five hundred years before Islam. His Enneads were translated into Arabic, reframed, and sent into the Islamic world under a borrowed name. The scholars who inherited it built their metaphysics on it. Ibn Sina's soul doctrine runs through it. Ibn Arabi's cosmology of emanation runs through it. The Sufi understanding of intellect, return, and the First Cause runs through it.
This essay traces the text — what it contains, how it moved, and what it made possible.

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FURTHER READING
Plotinus — The Enneads (trans. Stephen MacKenna)
Peter Adamson — The Arabic Plotinus
Henry Corbin — Alone with the Alone
Ibn Arabi — al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya
Ibn Sina — Kitab al-Shifa

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