INTRODUCTION Concepts of God aremere simulacra. Such, in brief, was the teaching of the great Hispano-Arab mystical theologian Muhyi'l-Dīn ibn 'Arabī (d. 1240). In his typically outspoken formulation, the conceptual God is just a “created God”. He is, according to Ibn 'Arabī's expression “the God created in dogmas” ( al-Haqq al-makhlūq fi'l-i'tiqādāt ). In the Islamic ethos, such a deity is...