Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil)

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Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) is a central Sufi metaphysical concept describing the fully realized human who perfectly reflects the divine attributes and serves as the complete manifestation of God’s reality in creation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic philosophical concept
Sufi metaphysical concept
aimOf Sufi spiritual path
articulatedIn Fusus al-Hikam
surface form: Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam

Ibn Arabi's al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya
associatedWith Abd al-Karim al-Jili
Ibn Arabi
centralTo Shia Sufism
surface form: Akbarian Sufism

Sufism
characterizedBy balance of outward and inward dimensions
complete spiritual knowledge (ma'rifa)
perfect realization of divine names
perfect servanthood ('ubudiyya)
connectedTo qutb
surface form: Qutb (spiritual pole)

concept of sainthood (wilaya)
contrastedWith ordinary unperfected human
coreIdea human as locus of manifestation (mazhar) of God
human as mirror of divine names and attributes
synthesis of divine and cosmic realities in the human
describes complete manifestation of divine reality in creation
fully realized human being
hasAspect anthropological doctrine
cosmological doctrine
ethical ideal
hasNameInArabic الإنسان الكامل
influenced Indo-Muslim Sufi traditions
Ottoman Sufi thought
Persian Sufi metaphysics
later Sufi anthropology
keyThemeIn Ibn Arabi's metaphysics
languageOfOrigin Arabic
linkedToFigure Muhammad
surface form: Prophet Muhammad
presupposes doctrine of divine names
doctrine of manifestation (tajalli)
unity of being (wahdat al-wujud)
relatedConcept Muhammadan Reality (al-haqiqa al-muhammadiyya)
universal man
vicegerency (khilafa)
roleInCosmos axis of the universe
comprehensive being (al-kawn al-jami)
mediator between God and creation
studiedIn Islamic philosophy of religion
comparative mysticism
systematicallyExpoundedIn al-Jili's al-Insan al-Kamil
timeOfSystematization medieval Islamic period
translation Perfect Man
understoodAs archetype of human perfection
ontological prototype of humanity

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Ibn Arabi notableIdea Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil)
Akbariyya centralTheme Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil)
this entity surface form: perfect human (al-insan al-kamil)
Abd al-Karim al-Jili doctrine Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil)
this entity surface form: insan al-kamil
Abd al-Karim al-Jili conceptualized Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil)
this entity surface form: the Perfect Man as the complete manifestation of divine names