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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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Ibn Arabi canonical	37
Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi	6
Ibn al-Arabi	3
Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi	3
Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī	2
Ibn Arabi (al-Shaykh al-Akbar)	1
Ibn al-Aʿrabi	1
Ibn al-ʿArabī	1
Ibn ʿArabī	1
Muhy al-Din Ibn Arabi	1

Statements (90)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic philosopher ⓘ Islamic scholar ⓘ Islamic theologian ⓘ Sufi mystic ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ poet ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Ibn Arabi ⓘ surface form: Muhy al-Din Ibn Arabi Ibn Arabi ⓘ surface form: Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Khwāja ⓘ surface form: Shaykh al-Akbar
associatedConcept	Akbarian school ⓘ
birthDate	1165-07-28 ⓘ
birthPlace	Murcia ⓘ Andalusia ⓘ surface form: al-Andalus present-day Spain ⓘ
birthYear	1165 ⓘ
burialPlace	Damascus ⓘ
burialSite	Salihiyya, Damascus ⓘ
century	12th century ⓘ 13th century ⓘ
citizenship	Islamic Spain ⓘ surface form: al-Andalus
deathDate	1240-11-10 ⓘ
deathPlace	Ayyubid dynasty ⓘ surface form: Ayyubid Sultanate Damascus ⓘ
deathYear	1240 ⓘ
denomination	Sunni Islam ⓘ
era	Islamic Golden Age ⓘ surface form: 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 Sunni Islamic institutions ⓘ surface form: Ottoman Sufism Persian Sufi poetry ⓘ Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi ⓘ Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ⓘ Sufism ⓘ surface form: South Asian Sufism Toshihiko Izutsu ⓘ William Chittick ⓘ later Islamic metaphysics ⓘ
influencedBy	Abu Madyan ⓘ Hadith ⓘ Quran ⓘ al‑Ghazali ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Islamic Spain ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi