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The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn ‘Arabi Stephen Hirtenstein https://www.amazon.com/Unlimited-Merc… Ibn ʿArabi (Arabic: ابن عربي‎‎) (26 July 1165 – 16 November 1240), full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibnʿArabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن علي بن محمـد إبن عربـي الحاتمي الطائي‎), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, whose works have grown to be very influential beyond the Muslim world. 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 Islamic world. He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar (“the Greatest Shaykh”; from here the Akbariyya or Akbarian school derives its name), Muḥyiddin ibn Arabi, and was considered a saint. For a more in-depth video regarding IbnʿArabi understanding of God and humans place in the scheme of things, go to this video. Beware, its quite the brain bender!!! The Unity of Being (Wahdat al-Wujud) https://youtu.be/F_MIw4KG7Qk More in-depth material on https://ibnarabisociety.org/