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Ibn al-'Arabi

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Ibn al-'Arabi

(born July 28, 1165, Murcia, Valencia—died Nov. 16, 1240, Damascus) Islamic mystic and theologian. Born in Spain, he traveled widely in Spain and North Africa in search of masters of Sufism. In 1198 he began a pilgrimage to the Middle East, visiting Mecca, Egypt, and Anatolia before settling in Damascus in 1223. Famous and honoured as a spiritual master, he spent the rest of his life in contemplation, teaching, and writing. His great work was The Meccan Revelations, a personal encyclopedia covering all the esoteric sciences in Islam and his own inner life. He also wrote one of the most important works in Islamic mystical philosophy, The Bezels of Wisdom (1229).


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In this rational-intuitive conceptualization of the ontic relation between God and the world, al-Attas follows Ibn al-'Arabi who has rearticulated in systematic terms the direct intuitive experience of the Sufis.
Cultural life was so diverse and appealing that Ibn al-'Arabi decided to stay instead of following his original plan of continuing his pilgrimage to Mecca from there.
 
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