27

Cf. 1:184 ff., and, in particular, 1:194 f., above.

27a

For the idea expressed in this paragraph, cf. Rasa'il Ikhwan as-safa', IV, 313 ff., a passage which at one time provoked an overenthusiastic com­parison with Darwinism. Cf. F. Dieterici, Der Darwinismus im X. and XIX. Jahrhundert (Die Philosophie der Araber, No. 9) (Leipzig, 1878), pp. 29 ff., 220 ff. Cf. also H. S. Nyberg, Kleinere Schriften des Ibn al-'Arabi (Leiden, 1919), p. 93 f. (Ar. text).

28

Cf. 1:184 f., above.

29

Wa-'inda: C.

30

Qur'an 41.6 (5). 01 Cf. p. 411, above.