ReligionsOctober 15, 2026Ishraq Ali, Mohammad Esmaeil Abdollahi
Ibn ʿArabī (1165–1240 CE) is best known for his metaphysics; his teaching on how life should be lived has received less attention. Drawing on al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya and the Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, this study asks how four of his central doctrines—the Oneness of Being (waḥdat al-wujūd), the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil), Divine Self-disclosure (tajallī), and the Five Divine Presences (al-ḥaḍarāt...