Ibn Arabi’s Hermeneutics and Criticisism
Biography
Ibn `Arabi (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-`Arabi al-Hatimi al-Ta’i) (1165-1240) – entitled with the honorifics al-Shaikh al-akbar (“The Greatest Teacher”) and Muhyi al-Din (“The Reviver of Religion”) – was born in Mucia in the Andalusian regional of Southern Spain, in a family of pure Arab blood (hence his name), and educated in Seville. When only twenty he already possessed profound spiritual insights. There is a story of him at this age meeting the great Aristotelian philosopher Averroes, who was shaken by the encounter with such a divine teacher. Baca entri selengkapnya »
