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Miguel Asin Palacios is an eminent Spanish orientalist who devoted his life for researching the services that had been offered by Andalusia for philosophy and sufism starting with Ibn Masarrah to Ibn A'rabi. Dr. Ahmad A'bdel Haleem Atiyeh presents for a group of contemporary Arabic writings about Palacios, who seems through his presentation serious in researching the Christian effect on the Islamic Sufism and vice versa... with a national spirit attributing Ibn Arabi to Spain and priding on him. Palacios, having been a Roman Catholic priest, was not different from other missionaries except in the amount of his showing respect for the Islamic heritage and his admittance to its virtues; however, on the other hand, he delves deeply into searching for peers and parallels in an attempt to establish an idea of Christian effect on the Islamic Andalusian Sufism. Here, his studies miss the search operations for the roots of the divine love idea in the Holy Quran.
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