Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi, Arabī}}; full name: , Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Arabī al-Ṭāī al-Ḥātimī}}}} (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Arab Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Of the 850 works attributed to him, about 700 are considered authentic, and more than 400 still survive today. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.

His traditional title was ''Muḥyiddīn'' (; ''The Reviver of Religion''). After his death, practitioners of Sufism began referring to him by the honorific title ''Shaykh al-Akbar'' (), from which the name Akbarism is derived. Ibn ʿArabī is considered a saint by some scholars and Muslim communities.

Ibn 'Arabi is known for being the first person to explicitly delineate the concept of "''wahdat al-wujud''" ("Unity of Being"), a monist doctrine which claimed that all things in the universe are manifestations of a singular "reality". Ibn 'Arabi equated this "reality" with the entity he described as "the Absolute Being" ("''al-wujud al-mutlaq''"). Provided by Wikipedia