Ibn Arabi

Ibn ʿArabī (, Arabī}}; full name: , Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Arabī al-Ṭāī al-Ḥātimī}}; 1165–1240) was an Andalusi Arab 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.

His traditional titular is ''Muḥyiddīn'' (; ''The Reviver of Religion''). After he died, and specifically among practitioners of Sufism, he was renowned by the honorific title ''Shaykh al-Akbar'' (). 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. 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 ul-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