Ibn Arabi
Shaykh al-Islām, Mujaddid Muḥyī d-Dīn ibn ʿArabī | |
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محي الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن عربي الحاتمي الطائي | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 28 July 1165 |
| Died | 16 November 1240 (aged 75) Salihiyya, Damascus, Ayyubid Sultanate |
| Resting place | Mount Qasioun, Damascus, Syria |
| Nationality | Andalusian, Ayyubid |
| Children | Sa'ad al-Din, Imad al-Din; Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (stepson) |
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| Era | Medieval philosophy
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| Region | Middle Eastern philosophy
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| Main interest(s) | |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya |
| Occupation | Mufassir, Muhaddtih, Theologian, Philosopher, Academic, Poet |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali or Zahiri |
| Teachers | Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī (Junaydiyya), Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Mahdawī (Qadiriyya) |
| Creed | Founder of Akbarism |
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| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Muḥammad محمد |
| Epithet (Laqab) | Muḥyī d-Dīn محي الدين |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Ḥātimī الحاتمي aṭ-Ṭāʾī الطائي |
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Ibn Arabi[a] (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Arab Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Of the 850 works attributed to him, about 700 are considered authentic, and more than 400 still survive today. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.[1]
His traditional title was Muḥyiddīn (Arabic: محيي الدين; The Reviver of Religion).[2][3] After his death, practitioners of Sufism began referring to him by the honorific title Shaykh al-Akbar, (Arabic: الشيخ الأكبر)[4] from which the name Akbarism is derived. Ibn ʿArabī is considered a saint by some scholars and Muslim communities.[5][6][7]
Ibn 'Arabi is known for being the first person to explicitly delineate the concept of "wahdat al-wujud" ("Unity of Being"), a monist doctrine which claimed that all things in the universe are manifestations of a singular "reality". Ibn 'Arabi equated this "reality" with the entity he described as "the Absolute Being" ("al-wujud al-mutlaq").
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- ^ Ibrahim Kalin, Salim Ayduz The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780199812578), p. 162
- ^ Corbin, Henry (2014). Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi. Princeton University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9781400853670.
- ^ Addas 2019, p. 9.
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- ^ Al-Suyuti, Tanbih al-Ghabi fi Tanzih Ibn 'Arabi (p. 17-21)
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