Ibn Arabi

Ibn ʿArabī (Arabic: ابن عربي, ALA-LC: Ibn ʻArabī‎; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن العربي الطائي الحاتمي, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Ḥātimī; 1165–1240),[3] was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.[4]

Ash-Shaykh al-Akbar Muḥyī ad-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī
ابن عربي
Born	28 July 1165 Murcia, Taifa of Murcia (now Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain)
Died	16 November 1240(1240-11-16) (aged 75) Ṣāliḥiyya, Damascus, Ayyubid Sultanate
Era	Medieval philosophy 12th century philosophy 13th century philosophy
Region	Middle Eastern philosophy Islamic philosophy
School	Founder of Akbariyya
Main interests	Mysticism Names of God Ontology Poetry Sufi metaphysics
Influences Abdul Qadir Gilani, Abu Madyan, Sahl al-Tustari, Al-Hallaj, Bayazid Bastami, al-Tamimi, Ibn Masarra, Ibn Barrajan, Ibn al-Arif, Ibn Qasi, Al-Ghazali
Influenced Qunawi, Ibn al-Farid, Sidi Bou Said, al-Shushtari, Hamadani, Fairuzabadi, al-Jīlī, al-Suyuti, Amuli, Mu'ayyid al-Dīn al-Jandī, Ismā‘īl bin Sawdakīn/Ibn Sawrakīn, ‘Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, 'Iraqi, Sa'd al-Din Sa'îd Farghani, Shabestari, ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī, Qayṣarī, al-Fanārī, Ni'matullah, Jami, Yahya Efendi, Bitlisi, al-Sha'rani, Mulla Sadra, Hamzah Fansuri, Abd al-Ghani, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Ismail Hakki Bursevi,Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Yusuf an-Nabhani, Shah Waliullah, Ibn Ajiba, Abdelkader, al-Alawi, Guénon, Corbin, Valsan, Mahmoud, Schuon, Nurbakhsh, Nursî,[1] Nasr,[2] Naquib al-Attas, Muhammad Iqbal, Ayatollah Khomeini
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muḥammad
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArabī
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh
Epithet (Laqab)	Ibn ʿArabī
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī

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His traditional titular is Muḥyīddīn (Arabic: محيي الدين; The Reviver of Religion).[5][6][7] After he died, and specifically among practitioners of Sufism, he was renowned by the honorific title Shaykh al-Akbar (Arabic: الشيخ الأكبر).[8] This, in turn, was the name from which the "Akbarian" school of Sufism derived its name, making him known as Doctor Maximus (The Greatest Teacher) in medieval Europe.[9] Ibn ʿArabī is considered as a saint by some scholars and Muslim communities.[10][11]