A Bosnian Commentator on the Fusus al-hikam Rešid Hafizovi´c IntroduCtIon Muhyiddin Ibn ªArabi’s Fusus al-hikam is the work of a Muslim Sufi philosopher, theosopher and highly sophisticated hieratic, and a native of that irreplaceable Muslim kingdom in southern Europe known as Andalusia, the loss of which is still mourned. not only is this work an inexhaustible locus of inspiration for the central concerns of Sufi literary works and the entire eso- teric tradition of Islam, but it also symbolizes the most elabo- rate, and still unsurpassed, metaphysics of the imagination ever developed. It is based on the gnosis and direct spiritual experi- ence of mubashshira or the imaginal vision, accompanied by a voice from the world of malakut, the world of the living creative imagination or mundus imaginalis (ªalam al-amthal). Ibn ªArabi himself, al-Shaykh al-Akbar (Doctor Maximus), is explicit in say- ing that he received the substance of the book from the Prophet of Islam, whom he saw in a vision of direct spiritual witness- ing (al-shuhud) among other messengers of the Word of God in damascus in the latter part of the month of Muharram ah 627, where they had come together as a true communia spiritualis. As Ibn ªArabi himself says, he wrote down only what the Prophet of Islam desired him to; he did not describe in minute detail all the spiritual sapience (adhwaq) and testimony (shuhud) he expe- rienced during this extraordinary ‘spiritual audience’. the fact that the Fusus al-hikam has been the subject of com- mentary for more than eight centuries is sufficient evidence of its significance and almost inexhaustible content. It would be hard to name all those who have sought to interpret it, and no less difficult to list all the languages into which the book has been translated and in which lengthy and painstaking commentaries on and analyses of the work have been written. Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 47, 2010