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- Most Western scholarship and much of the later Islamic tradition have classified Ibn ‘Arabî as a “Sufi”, though he himself did not; his works cover the whole gamut of Islamic sciences, not least Koran commentary, Hadith (sayings of Muhammad), jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, and mysticism.
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Ibn ʿArabī (Arabic: ابن عربي, ALA-LC: Ibn ʻArabī ; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن عربي الطائي الحاتمي, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Ḥātimī; 1165–1240) [1] was an Andalusi Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic ...
Aug 5, 2008 · Ibn ‘Arabî (1165–1240) can be considered the greatest of all Muslim philosophers, provided we understand philosophy in the broad, modern sense and not simply as the discipline of falsafa, whose outstanding representatives are Avicenna and, many would say, Mullâ Sadrâ.
Ibn El-Arabi: A Classical Sufi Master by Peter Brent. Born into a Sufi family almost exactly a hundred years after El-Ghazali, almost exactly forty years before Rumi, Ibn el-Arabi, like them, displayed great gifts even in childhood.
Sep 4, 2002 · Explore the complex legacy of Ibn Arabi, a prominent Sufi mystic, whose works evoke fierce debate among scholars. While some regard him as a revered friend of God, others denounce him as a disbeliever, interpreting his writings as heretical and contradictory to Islamic teachings.
Apr 8, 2022 · Ibn ‘Arabi begins with a Hadith oft-cited by Sufis and connects it to the Quran, which he then interprets in his own bāṭinī (esoteric) way. Here, knowing the soul is equated with knowing one of God's signs.
Oct 16, 2012 · Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ‘Arabi and ‘Iraqi by Cyrus Ali Zargar is a study of vision and the human form in the mystical poetry of two major figures from the thirteenth-century Sufi tradition, Muhyi al-Din Ibn ‘Arabi (writing in Arabic in both the Islamic East and West) and Fakhr al-Din ...
Mar 22, 2018 · His explications of love, tolerance, the value of knowledge, and the power of language merit re-exploration today more than ever. In twentieth-century Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood called for the burning of Ibn Arabi’s magnum opus, The Meccan Revelations (Al-Futuhat Al-Makkiyya).
