Abū al-Ḥakam ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbd al Raḥmān b. Abī al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmānal-Lakhmī al-Ifrīqī al-Ishbīlī (Arabic: عبد السلام بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن برجان اللخمي; died 1141) was anAndalusianSufi master and hadith scholar.[1] He spread his teachings in the first half of the 12th century.
Ibn Barrajan wrote a two-volume commentary on thenames of God in Islam and two famoustafsirs,ʾīḍāḥ al-ḥikma "Wisdom Deciphered the Unseen Discovered", which exists in a critical edition.[2][3] andTanbih 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.[4][5][6]
His writings had a great influence onIbn 'Arabi,[8] who was quite sceptical of ibn Barrajan's methods of prognostication of the Jerusalem conquest, calling themʿIlm al-Hurūf.[9]
He died in prison inMarrakesh, when he was summoned to that city by theAlmoravid sultanAli ibn Yusuf, who feared his influence.[10] Against the wishes of the sultan he received an official burial on the initiative ofAli ibn Harzihim.
^Denis Gril, "La <<lecture supérieure>> du Coran selon Ibn Barragan" in Arabica, Tome XLVII, Brill 2000, page 510, note 1: Ibn al-Abbar calls him "al-Lakhmi al-Ifriqi thumma al-Ishbili", someone from Africa who became a Sevilian.
^A Qur'an Commentary by Ibn Barrajan of Seville ed. by Gerhard Boewering and Yusuf Casewit, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2016
^Tanbih al-Afham Ila Tadabbur al-Kitab al-Hakim wa Ta'arruf al-Ayat wa-l-Naba al-'Athim, 5 Vols. Ed. Fateh Hoseni 'Abd al-Karim, 'Amman: Dar al-Nur al-Mubeen, 2016.
^Tanbih al-Afham Ila Tadabbur al-Kitab al-Hakim wa Ta'arruf al-Ayat wa-l-Naba al-'Athim, 5 Vols, Ed. Ahmed Farid al-Mazyadi, Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyyah, 2013.
^Tanbih al-Afham Ila Tadabbur al-Kitab al-Hakim wa Ta'arruf al-Ayat wa-l-Naba al-'Athim, 2 Vols Ed. Muhammad al-'Adluni, Casablanca: Dar al-Thaqafah, 2011.
^The Mystics of al-Andalus, Yusuf Casewit, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, Pg 294.
^Claude Addas, inSalma Khadra Jayyusi and Manuela Marín, eds.,Handbuch der Orientalistik, Part 1, Volume 12, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten. The legacy of Muslim Spain, BRILL, 1992, page 921 and 922 andpassim (see index)
^Ibn Barraǧān and Ibn ʿArabī on the prediction of the capture of Jerusalem in 583/1187 by Saladin, José Bellver, The University of Barcelona, 2014
^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)
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.ISBN9788400079765.
Paul Nwiya, "Notes sur quelques fragments inédits de la correspondence d'Ibn al-'Arif avec Ibn Barrajan"inHesperis 43 (1956)
A. Faure, entry "Ibn Barradjan" in: N. Hanif,Biographical encyclopaedia of Sufis: Africa and Europe, Sarup & Sons, 2002, p. 64-65[1] (retrieved 3-12-2010)
