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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 ]
Ibn Arabi considers this man to be a Barzakh, meaning a Perfect Human Being. Chittick explains that the Perfect Human acts as the Barzakh or "isthmus" between God and the world. [28] According to Ibn Arabi, [citation needed] Khalid was a prophet whose message never emerged. Before he died, he told his sons to open his tomb forty days after his ...
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
The author is also known as 'Qadi ibn al-Arabi' (ibn Arabi, the judge) to distinguish him from the famous Sufi Ibn Arabi. He was a jurist from Andalusia ( Muslim Spain ) His interpretation has been published in three volumes and contains commentary on the legal rulings of the Qur’an according to the Maliki school.
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.
The concept was also applied by ibn Arabi, a well-respected and influential Islamic thinker. The origin of this concept is derived from the Quran and hadith, as mentioned in Ibn Arabi's Fusus Al-Hikam: Muhammad's wisdom is uniqueness (fardiya) because he is the most perfect existent creature of this human species. For this reason, the command ...
Vincente Cantorino (trans)., Casidas de amor profano y místico: Ibn Zaydun e Ibn ʿArabi (Mexico City: Porrua, 1988) [Spanish translation]. Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de los Deseos (Tarŷumān al-Ašwāq), trans. by Carlos Varona Narvión (Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, Colección Ibn Arabi, 2002) [Spanish translation].