al-Insān al-Kāmil
al-Insān al-Kāmil fī Maʿrifat al-Awākhir wa-l-Awāʾil: "The Perfect Human, in the Knowledge of the Last Things and the First"
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī · b. 767 AH / 1365 CE, d. c. 1424 CE
The most comprehensive systematic treatment of the Perfect-Human doctrine in the Akbarian tradition, here rendered as a complete line-by-line Arabic and English parallel manuscript: every chapter, every passage, nothing dropped. No complete English translation of all sixty-three chapters is known to have existed before.
Open the reading edition all 63 chapters in one navigable reader, Arabic and English side by side
How this edition was made
This is not a generic chatbot translation. It was produced with a purpose-built translation engine and a toolchain designed to raise the linguistic and doctrinal accuracy of esoteric primary sources. A controlled Akbarian glossary is enforced as a hard constraint, so key terms render consistently across all sixty-three chapters; hermeneutic frame controllers hold the text to its own ẓāhir / bāṭin grammar; and an automated audit layer checks every term, cross-reference, and citation against an on-disk registry rather than letting the model assert them freely.
Each chapter is then two-witness collated (the ibnalarabi.com digital matn against an archive.org OCR of the print edition, with OCR garbles restored to sense and flagged in each chapter's Audit Trail), and every Qurʾānic locus is checked verbatim against the muṣḥaf. The opening band is triangulated against Nicholson's 1921 renderings, whose anti-ḥulūl framing this edition independently matches. Where a passage is doctrinally contested, the apparatus surfaces it rather than smoothing it over. The edition is openly licensed (CC-BY-SA 4.0); the original-language source-of-record for every chapter is archived alongside it.
Essence, Names, Attributes, and Divinity: the descent of Absolute Being through its self-disclosures.
The revealed books, the Throne and Footstool, the Pen and the Tablet: cosmic symbols read as the structure of the one Essence.
The Holy Spirit and the human faculties as forms of the cosmic Spirit; the Muhammadan Form and the Soul.
al-Insān al-Kāmil, the Perfect Human: the chapter al-Jīlī says the whole book expounds.
The Portents of the Hour, the Seven Heavens, and the Various Religions: the universalist close.