Mysticism and Rational Inquiry in the School of Ibn ʿArabī
Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi November 1, 2022 Mohammed Rustom 2 citations
Despite the fact that some of the main followers of the famous Spanish Muslim mystic Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240)2 were well-versed in the discipline of philosophy, the school of Ibn ‘Arabī is often not regarded in Western scholarship as a philosophical school in the usual sense of the term. This is because Ibn ʿArabī’s followers tend to tackle the central problems of philosophy through the medium...