Bülent up

Bülent Rauf (* 1911 in Istanbul ; † 1987 in Chisholme House, Roberton, near Hawick , Scotland) was a Turkish mystic , spiritual advisor, translator and author. He was married to Princess Faiza , sister of the Egyptian King Faruq I , from 1945 until the early 1960s .

Bülent Rauf dedicated many years of his life to the theoretical and practical imparting of knowledge about the absolute unity of being ( tauhid ). As a representative of Sufism ( Islamic mysticism ) and a proven expert on the life and work of the great Andalusian scholar Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), he was, among other things, a long-time companion and advisor to the British mystic and author Reshad Feild , who published it in his 1978 edition autobiographical novel The last barrier portrayed in the figure of "Hamid". In 1975 Bülent Rauf, u. a. with the support of Reshad Feild, the Beshara School for Intensive Esoteric Education in Scotland , where hundreds of students have since been taught the basics of an informal, non-religious spirituality.

From 1977 Bülent Rauf was honorary president for life of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society he co-founded , which is committed to the academic research and dissemination of the works of this influential Sufi. Bülent Rauf's main literary work is the complete English translation of the four-volume edition of Ibn Arabis Fusus al-Hikam, ascribed to Ismail Hakki Bursevi , with extensive commentary in Ottoman-Turkish .

Works (selection)

English

Addresses , Beshara Publications, Roxburgh 1986, ISBN 0-904975-12-6 .
Addresses II , Beshara Publications, Roxburgh 2001, ISBN 0-904975-30-4 .
Fusus al-Hikam , Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, Oxford and Istanbul, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1991, four volumes, ISBN 0-9509527-1-0 .

German

On the way in the unity of being - Gesammelte Schriften , Chalice, Xanten 2017, ISBN 978-3-942914-23-9 .
Introduction to The Wisdom of the Prophets , Chalice, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-905272-71-7 .
Introduction to The Hidden Treasure , Chalice, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-905272-72-5 .

literature

Taji-Farouki, Suha: Beshara and Ibn Arabi, A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World , Anqa Publishing, Oxford, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905937-00-4 .
Culme-Seymour, Angela: Bolter's Grand-Daughter ISBN 978-1-904181-15-6

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personal data
SURNAME	Up, Bülent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish-British mystic, teacher, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH	1987
Place of death	Chisholme House, Roberton, near Hawick , Scotland