Ibn Arabi

✶August 4, 1165

†November 23, 1240

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About their life

Ibn al-ʿArabī was a Muslim Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general. There are 850 works attributed to Ibn al-ʿArabī, though only 700 of these are considered authentic, and only 400 are extant. His cosmological teachings became a dominant intellectual framework in many regions of the Muslim world.

Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)

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