Medieval · 1165–1240
Who influenced Ibn Arabi?
Influences
The Greatest Master of Sufi metaphysics: the unity of being and the perfect human.
Ibn Arabi was influenced by Avicenna and Suhrawardi. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Ibn Arabi?
Ibn Arabi was a mystic, poet and philosopher from al-Andalus whose teaching shaped Sufi metaphysics and became the dominant cosmology in many parts of the Muslim world. Later Sufis called him Shaykh al-Akbar, the Greatest Master, which gave its name to Akbarism.
He was the first to set out explicitly the doctrine of wahdat al-wujud, the unity of being: everything in the universe is a manifestation of a single reality, which he called Absolute Being. Some 850 works are attributed to him, of which about 400 survive.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Ibn Arabi?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Avicenna 980–1037
- Suhrawardi 1154–1191
The line of teachers behind Ibn Arabi
The longest documented line of influence ending at Ibn Arabi runs 10 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Ibn Arabi
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Ibn Arabi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Ibn Arabi, with no direct line between them.
- Robert Grosseteste c. 1175–1253
Ibn Arabi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 19
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 74 — #17 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Ibn Arabi
- Who influenced Ibn Arabi?
- Avicenna and Suhrawardi.
- Who did Ibn Arabi influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Ibn Arabi.
- When did Ibn Arabi live?
- 1165–1240. The map files Ibn Arabi under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Ibn Arabi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Ibn Arabi in 74 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415