Ibn Arabi

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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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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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Shaykh al-Akbar honorificFor Ibn Arabi
this entity surface form: Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī
Ibn Sabin influencedBy Ibn Arabi
this entity surface form: Ibn al-ʿArabī
Islamic West notableScholar Ibn Arabi
this entity surface form: Ibn al-Arabi
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani teacherOf Ibn Arabi
this entity surface form: Ibn al-Aʿrabi
Toshihiko Izutsu influencedBy Ibn Arabi