Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born Moslem thinker and mystic. One of the most prolific writers of the Islamic Middle Ages on the subject of mysticism, he also wrote love poetry. Ibn al-Arabi was from Murcia, of a...

Fuat Sezgin's publication of the facsimile edition of a rare manuscript of the Qalaid al-juman fi faraid shuara hadha 'l-zaman (Frankfurt, 1990), an anthology and biographical dictionary of poets of the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century by Ibn al-Shaar al-Mawsili (d. 654/1256), offers an...

Chittick has been studying Ibn Arabi for more than twenty-five years. In his Sufi Path of Knowledge (1989), Chittick analyzed Ibn Arabi's Futuhat from an epistemological view. In the present work he offers a systematic summary of Ibn Arabi's thought with reference to...

Ibn al-Arabi and Chuang-tzu were both influential philosophy and religious thinkers. Although they came from different religious backgrounds, Ibn al-Arabi was Muslim and Chuang-tzu was a Taoist, they have very similar ideas about dreams and reality.