LAGARDE Michèle‘ABD AL-QADIR AL-DJAZÂ’IRÎ. Le Livre des Haltes (Kitâb al-Maqwâqif). Présenté, Traduit et Annoté par Michel Lagarde (Père blanc). Edition intégrale traduite en 3 volumes de ce traité de mysticisme musulman rédigé à Damas où réside l’émir algérien Abdel-Kader, à partir de 1856 . Pionnier du nationalisme, et héros de la lutte anticoloniale, « il est surtout un homme de Dieu , et une des grandes figures du soufisme au XIXe siècle » (Houari Touati). 3 volumes in-8° de XIII & 632 pp. ; 626 pp. ; 523 pp. reliure d’éditeur, Brill, Leyden, - Boston Quln, 2000-2002. Très bon état intérieur, une légère mouillure sans aucune atteinte au texte au dos de la reliure du Tome I.
This first of three volumes comprising ‘Abd al Qâdir’s work contains 215 of the 372 original chapters. Based on the Dār al-yaqaza al-‘arabiyya (1966-1967) and on the manuscript of the Library of Alger, this translation addresses the work done so far by Michel Chodkiewicz and by A. Khurshīd. It deals with mystic comments on Qur’anic verses and prophetic translations inspired by Ibn ‘Arabi’s work. It serves as a useful introduction to Futuḥāt and Fusus.
The second volume, out of three, contains the chapters 216 up to 320 of the alltogether 372 chapters. Based on the Dār al-yaqaza al-‘arabiyya (1966-1967) and on the manuscript of the Library of Alger, this translation has taken into account the work accomplished by Michel Chodkiewicz (Éditions du Seuil, 1982) and by A. Khurshīd (Alif Ëditions, 1996). It deals with mystic comments on Qur’anic verses and prophetic translations inspired by Ibn ‘Arabi’s work. This volume also contains long comments on the Futuḥāt. Chapter 248 deals with the synthesis of Shaykh al-Akbar's view on the world, which helps to get an idea of this rather well organised vision, which is however often hard to understand.
The third and final volume of the "Livre des Haltes" of the Algerian ‘Abd al-Qâdir contains the chapters 299 to 372. It comprises 524 text pages and, in addition, the following indices: lexical index of subjects, index of proper names, index of qur'anic quotations, index of hadiths, index of logical and exegetical principles, index of remarks on the Arabic text (omissions, textual differences, corrections). A concise bibliography rounds off the volume.