Ibn Arabi

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Islamic philosopher Islamic scholar Islamic theologian Sufi mystic metaphysician poet

Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic philosopher → Islamic scholar → Islamic theologian → Sufi mystic → metaphysician → poet →
alsoKnownAs	Muhy al-Din Ibn Arabi → Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi → Shaykh al-Akbar →
associatedConcept	Akbarian school →
birthDate	1165-07-28 →
birthPlace	Murcia → al-Andalus → present-day Spain →
birthYear	1165 →
burialPlace	Damascus →
burialSite	Salihiyya, Damascus →
century	12th century → 13th century →
citizenship	al-Andalus →
deathDate	1240-11-10 →
deathPlace	Ayyubid Sultanate → Damascus →
deathYear	1240 →
denomination	Sunni Islam →
era	Medieval Islamic period →
field	Islamic mysticism → cosmology → ontology → philosophy of religion →
fullName	Muhyiddin Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi al-Ta’i →
genre	mystical poetry → mystical prose → philosophical treatise →
honorificTitle	Shaykh al-Akbar →
influenced	Abd al-Karim al-Jili → Henry Corbin → Ibn Sabin → Jami → Mulla Sadra → Ottoman Sufism → Persian Sufi poetry → Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi → Shah Waliullah Dehlawi → South Asian Sufism → Toshihiko Izutsu → William Chittick → later Islamic metaphysics →
influencedBy	Abu Madyan → Hadith → Quran → al-Ghazali → early Sufi tradition →
language	Arabic →
legacy	central figure in classical Sufi metaphysics → foundational source for Akbarian school of thought → major influence on later Islamic spirituality and philosophy →
mainInterest	Islamic theology → Quranic exegesis → Sufism → metaphysics → mystical poetry →
movement	Sufism →
notableIdea	Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) → Unity of Being → Wahdat al-wujud → imaginal world (alam al-mithal) → oneness of existence and multiplicity of manifestations →
notableWork	Fusus al-Hikam → Insha al-Dawa’ir → Kitab al-Isra ila al-Maqam al-Asra → Mashahid al-Asrar → Tarjuman al-Ashwaq → al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya →
regionOfActivity	Anatolia → Mecca → North Africa → Syria → al-Andalus →
religion	Islam →
schoolTradition	Akbariyya →
travelledTo	Baghdad → Cairo → Damascus → Konya → Mecca →
viewOnGod	God as absolute Being whose self-disclosure manifests all existents →
viewOnHumanity	human being as mirror of divine names →
viewOnReality	all existence is a manifestation of the One Being →
wroteInLanguage	Arabic →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ibn Arabi ("Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi") → Ibn Arabi ("Muhy al-Din Ibn Arabi") →	alsoKnownAs
Arabic literature →	hasNotableAuthor
Sufism →	hasNotableFigure
al-Hallaj →	influenced
Dara Shikoh →	influencedBy
Islamic philosophy →	majorFigure
Al-Qarawiyyin University ("Ibn al-Arabi") →	notableAlumnus