Counting titles is not counting authenticated works

Osman Yahya relied directly on Sarkis Awwad’s edition of the Fihrist and Abd al-Rahman Badawi’s edition of the Ijaza, as well as earlier research published in Carl Brockelmann’s History of Arabic Literature, Haji Khalifa’s Kashf al-Zunun and other sources. As a result, his classification of Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi’s books mentions about 1,395 titles, including 539 duplicates. After removing duplicates, the number remaining is 846 books. Many of these, however, are spurious and are not really by Shaykh Muhyiddin, but were attributed to him for various reasons: their contents might resemble his style, or they might actually belong to disciples influenced by his learning and manner, or to other Sufis. Many other books on assorted spiritual subjects were also falsely attributed to him in order to promote them and circulate them among readers. This harmed his standing and led some people to disparage him and his learning.