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Ibn al-'Arabi

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Ibn al-'Arabi (1165–1240)

Andalusian-born mystic and teacher who settled in Damascus. To Ibn 'Arabi love was more important than knowledge, a theory that is totally rejected by traditional Muslim lawyers. A prolific writer, he combined inner devotion with an analytical mind, concluding the unity of faiths despite their apparent divergency. He wrote an estimated 400 books and treatises, including al-Futuhat al-Makiyya/The Makkan Inspirations.



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Ibn al-'Arabi conceives of this relation in terms of the ontological 'descent' (tanazzul) of Absolute being in five non-temporal and non-spatial stages, of which the last is the world of empirical, tangible things: (33)
Al-Attas' philosophy of science an extended outline by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
45) This is the classic text of Ibn al-'Arabi that summarizes his philosophical and ethical argument for the oneness of being; see Ibn al-'Arabi, Bezels of Wisdom, trans.
Pilgrim clouds: the polymorphous sacred in Indo-Muslim imagination by Kugle, Scott / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
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