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Ibn Arabi believed that God's attributes and names are manifested in this world, with the most complete and perfect display of these divine attributes and names seen in Muhammad. Ibn Arabi believed that one may see God in the mirror of Muhammad. He maintained that Muhammad was the best proof of God and, by knowing Muhammad, one knows God. [73]
Jili was the primary systematizer and commentator of Ibn Arabi's works. His Universal Man explains Ibn Arabi's teachings on reality and human perfection, which is among the masterpieces of Sufi literature. [67] [68] Jili thought of the Absolute Being as a Self, which later on influenced Muhammad Iqbal. [69] Jami: Persia (Iran) 1414–1492 Sufi
Ibn Arabi is initiated into religious experience by a spiritual woman called Nizham, a young Persian woman whose name means "Harmony". He quotes the poems of the writer Rabia of Basra , who according to him is "the most prestigious interpreter" of love. [ 8 ]
Bulent Rauf was the first president of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, which is dedicated to making known the work of the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi, and encouraged translation and publication of his writings. Rauf led the society until his death in 1987.
Fuṣūṣ-ul-Ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom") and Tarjumān al-Ashwāq ("The Interpreter of Desires") by Ibn Arabi; Kimiya-yi sa'ādat ("The Alchemy of Happiness") by Al-Ghazali; The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar; The Dīwān of Yūnūs by Yunus Emre; The Qaṣīdat-ul-Burda ("Poem of the Mantle") of al-Buṣīrī
Iraqi's famous Lama'at (لمعات) is mixed prose and poetry and consists of 27, or perhaps 28 chapters, as early texts suggest that one of the chapters is two chapters, similar to Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam ("Bezels of wisdom"). Despite the fact that the work is based on Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi's understanding of Ibn Arabi's works, it is not ...
Turkey is situated where Ibn Arabi's most prominent disciple, successor and stepson Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, and other important commentators on Arabi's works lived in the past. Dawūd al-Qayṣarī , who was invited to Iznik by Orhan Ghazi to be the director and teacher for the first Ottoman university (madrasa), was the disciple of Kamāl al ...
William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology.