al-Nuzha al-Sāsāniyya by Shīrīn Maghribī (d. 810/1408). A Recently-Discovered Cosmological Treatise in Persian of the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī

This article presents for the first time the treatise al-Nuzha al-Sāsāniyya by the Tabrizi
Sufi scholar and poet Muḥammad Shīrīn Maghribī (d. 810/1408), hitherto considered
lost. The analysis of this Persian cosmology work, the rich graphic materials it contains,
and its relationship with some of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) most important cosmological
texts including the treatise ʿUqlat al-mustawfiz and Chapter 371 of al-Futūḥāt
al-Makkiyya, offers a unique opportunity for shedding new light on Maghribī as an
eminent member of the so-called ‘School of Ibn al-ʿArabī’ and on his intellectual activity
as a teacher and interpreter of the works and ideas of the Shaykh al-Akbar. At the
same time, it explores the use of visual elements, and more specifically of diagrams, in
the Sufi literature of the period, and their potential value for codicological and philological
purposes.