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The word Barzakh can also refer to a person. Chronologically between Jesus and Mohammad is the contested Prophet Khalid. 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]
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 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 Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought.
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 Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a compilation of lectures delivered by Muhammad Iqbal on Islamic philosophy which got published in 1930. These lectures were delivered by Iqbal in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh. The last chapter, "Is Religion Possible", was added to the book from the 1934 Oxford Edition onwards.
Ibn Arabi wrote al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya twice—a first draft completed in 1231 and a revision—the Konya manuscript— completed in 1238. [ 1 ] : 53 The manuscript was once part of the waqf of Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi , now kept at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul (MS Evkaf Muzesi) 1845–1881).
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.
'Warning to the Dolt/Fool Concerning Ibn 'Arabi's Vindication') is a booklet written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505) as a response to the book Tanbih al-Ghabi ila Takfir Ibn 'Arabi (Arabic: تنبيه الغبي إلى تكفير ابن عربي, lit.