DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Ibn 'Arabi

Heir to the Prophets

William C Chittick author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oneworld Publications

Published:5th Sep '05

Currently unavailable, our supplier has not provided us a restock date

Ibn 'Arabi cover

The importance of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) for Islamic mysticism lies in the fact that he was a speculative thinker of the highest order, albeit diffuse and difficult to understand. His central doctrine is the unity of all existence. In this text, William Chittick explores how, through the work of Ibn Al-Arabi, Sufism moves away from anguished and ascetic searchings of the heart and conscience and becomes a matter of speculative philsophy and theosophy.

"Full of quotes of Ibn al-Arabi, makes interesting reading"

* Islam and Christiani

ISBN: 9781851683871

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 15mm

Weight: 358g

152 pages