Il significato simbolico del nome Allah in Ibn ‘Ata' Allah al-Iskandari

Abstract

A fundamental trait of the Islamic tradition is represented from the exegesis of divine names. Names that describe God under his manifold ones aspects and which are therefore attributives: the Clement, the Merciful, the Creator, the Righteous. The Islamic texts on this subject are innumerable and present themselves to the scholar both in the form of entire treatises and as chapters dedicated to them within larger works.In the following study we will draw on one of the basic texts of the question on names divine elaborated by one of the most important medieval masters of tasawwuf. The text dealing with divine names (entitled Book of exclusive aspiration on the knowledge of the isolated name) is a metaphysical treatise whose purpose is to teach people adepts how to concentrate one's aspiration towards Allah.