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The Sufis’ and Ibn al - ‘Arabī’s Attitudes Towards the Pillars of Islam 10 perspectives Sometimes the mystical considerations are absent and instead our author interweaves perceptions of the cosmos in his examination of certain pillars of Islam In all the chapters, I did not follow Ibn al - ‘Arabī’s sequence of the sections, because he did not always arrange them in keeping with logical order, as one would expect For example, one would naturally expect to find the order of the Ḥajj’s rites as they actually take place in the Ḥajj . But Ibn al - ‘Arabī abandons this order . Hence, I decided not to follow his order and to discuss the various items in each pillar according to their significance as perceived by our author As for the sequence of this book’s chapters, I followed Ibn al - ‘Arabī’s order with one exception : I prioritized the chapter on ritual purity, placing it first, although Ibn al - ‘Arabī ordered this chapter ( ch 68 in the Futūḥāt ) after chapter 67 on the witness of fait...
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