Langage et théologie chez Ab? Bakr Ibn al-?Arab? (543/1148)

The Q??? Ab? Bakr Ibn al-?Arab? was an A??arite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in the history of a??arism in al-Andalus, and introduced kal?m books that quickly became references of local teaching, such as the Ir??d of al-?uwayn?. He also introduced treatises of u??l al-fiqh such as the Musta?f? and the Man??l of al-?az?l?. Ibn al-?Arab? is also the most famous disciple of the latter and one of the first to have transmitted his thought to Andalusian scholars, then to the rest of the Muslim West. Through a critical, introduced, translated and commented edition of his sum of legal theory entitled Nukat al-Ma???l f? ?ilm u??l, this present work shows how the legal thought of the Q??? is articulated between language and theology.