The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan
American Journal of Islam and Society March 27, 2026 Wissam Iman Nuwayhid
This book presents a bilingual edition and study of a major Sufi work on the divine names by the North African mystic ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, a direct intellectual heir of Ibn al-ʿArabī. The author's travels across Sunni-ruled cities from Tlemcen to Konya to Cairo and Damascus formed a pan-Islamic Sufi nexus. Yousef Casewit's edition, translation, and commentary make this philosophically nuanced treatment of the Qur'anic divine names accessible to non-Arabic readers for the first time, situating it within Islamic metaphysics, Qur'anic hermeneutics, and Sufi theology.