Historical information about the influence of Ibn-Arabi on the Tatar Sufi medieval culture

The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific and historical sources on Islamic esoteric treatises of Ibn Arabi, the famous Sufi philosopher of the 12th-13th centuries. The main searches were aimed at identifying the admirers of this scientist among the members of the Naqshbandiyya Tariqat in Central Asia and among the Tatars. the identification of little-cited foreign sources on the topic, their translation and introduction into the scientific turnover. Sufi terms and symbolic images most popular in Tatar Sufi literature have been separately identified. Among the English-language works on the topic, the article by H. Algar “Reflections of Ibn Arabi in Early Naqshbandi Tradition” is singled out and analyzed. It contains valuable information about the attitude of many influential leaders and representatives of the Naqshbandi tariqa of the 15th-16th centuries towards Ibn Arabi. It also gives the important names of the Sufis of the Naqshbandiyya tariqa who spread the teachings of Ibn Arabi to other countries of the Islamic world. To obtain information on the influence of Ibn Arabi's Sufi teachings on Tatar religious figures and Sufi sheikhs of the XIX-XX centuries, the book by R. Fakhretdin translated into Russian by R. Gatin was analyzed. A number of Sufi symbols and concepts common to Ibn Arabi's treatises and members of the Naqshbandiyya tariqat were identified.