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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]
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: Spain (Andalusia) 1165–1240 Sufi He was an Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic whose work Fusus al-Hikam (The Ringstones of Wisdom) can be described as a summary of his mystical beliefs concerning the role of different prophets in divine revelation. [50] [51] [52] Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Persia (Iran) 1201–1274
Akbari Sufism or Akbarism (Arabic: أكبرية: Akbariyya) is a branch of Sufi metaphysics based on the teachings of Ibn Arabi, an Andalusian Sufi who was a gnostic and philosopher. The word is derived from Ibn Arabi 's nickname, " Shaykh al-Akbar," meaning "the greatest master."
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.
Ibn Arabi, in his book The Astounding Anqa regarding the Seal of Saints and the Sun of the West (Arabic: عنقاء مغرب في معرفة ختم الأولياء وشمس المغرب, ALA-LC: ʻAnqāʼ al-Mughrib fī Maʻrifat Khatm al-Awliyāʼ wa-Shams al-Maghrib), explains that the name of the Seal of Saints is Abdullah, who is a ...
He was engaged in the school of Ibn Arabi, greatly enriching, analyzing, and also changing the school or Ibn Arabi. Jami continued to grow in further understanding of God through miraculous visions and feats, hoping to achieve a great awareness of God in the company of one blessed by Him. [ 16 ]
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).