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<\/p>\nTHE LIFE of Ibn ARABI<\/p>\n
By Melisa Dirilish<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
*** Ibn ‘Arabi, \u201cFut\u00fbh\u00e2t al-Makkiyya\u201d ***<\/p>\n
Ibn al-‘Arabi, was born as Ab\u016b `Abd-Allah Mu\u1e25ammad ibn Ali ibn Mu\u1e25ammad ibn al-`Arabi al-\u1e24\u0101tim\u012b al-\u1e6c\u0101\u2019\u012b).
\nHe was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the world\u2019s most important spiritual teachers. He became known as Muhyiddin (the Revivifier of Religion) and the Sheik al-Akbar (the Greatest Master).
\nHis life can be divided into three periods: his time in the Maghrib (Andalusia and North Africa); time in the Hijaz(Mecca and Medina); and his time in the Mashriq (Anatolia and Syria).<\/p>\n
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Ibn al-\u02bfArab\u012b was born in Murcia, southeast Spain, in 1165 AD into the Moorish culture, to the family of a minor official . He was of pure Arab blood whose ancestry went back to the prominent Arabian tribe of \u1e6c\u0101\u02be\u012b.
\nHe lived at a time when Andalusian Spain was the centre of an extraordinary cultural flourishing in the West, and at a time of cross-fertilisation of Jewish, Christian and Islamic thoughts.
\nHis contemporaries included Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Abu Madyan, \u02bfUmar al-Suhrawardi, Ibn al-Farid, Moses Maimonides, and St Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n
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There is a recorded story about Ibn Arabi\u2019s birth. The story goes like this:<\/p>\n
His father, Shaykh Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Arabi of Spain had no children and he wished to have a son. At the advice of his Wali he approached Hazrat Ghaus E Azam, to ask for his blessings and prayers to be granted a son.
\nHazrat Ghaus E Azam said to him: \u201cI have one more son yet unborn, that is written in my destiny. I will give him to you. So, now rub your back against mine and when the child is born name him Muhammad Muhyiddin. He would grow up to be a Qutb (a spiritual leader) of his time.\u201d
\nThe child was eventually born, as Hazrat Ghaus E Azam has predicted, and was named Muhammad Muhyiddin. He became a great philosopher and a great spiritual leader, as well as the greatest and most important Sufi figures in the Islamic tradition. He gained the title of Shaykh al-Akbar and is commonly known as Ibn al-Arabi.<\/p>\n