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From the Meccan Openings: The Myth of the Origin of Religion and Law |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ISLAMIC COSMOLOGY |
| Author: William C. Chittick |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 4,330 Words, 25,344 Characters |
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Islam has produced no greater mystical theologian and philosophical visionary than Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-'Arabi (born in Muricia, 1165; died in Damascus, 1240). He synthesized Islamic law, theology, philosophy, mysticism, cosmology, psychology, and other sciences in a manner that has for the past seven hundred years wielded tremendous influence over Islam. His Meccan Openings (al-Futuhat al-makkiyya), which will fill more than fifteen thousand pages in its new edition, provides a few glimmers and flashes of the luminous sciences he acquired when God "opened" for him the door to the "Treasuries of Unseen Generosity." Ibn al-'Arabi wrote several hundred other works, at least three hundred of which are extant.
Though Ibn al-'Arabi had mastered the academic study of theology and was thorou...
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... through a spiritual retreat in which I had been alone with God, even though I had not been seeking such knowledge. He said, "Praise belongs to God, that I should have lived in a time in which I saw 'one whom God has given mercy from him and has taught him knowledge preceding from him'" (Qur'an 18:65). "God singles out for his mercy whom he will, and God is of bounty abounding" (Qur'an 2:105).
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