Ibn Arabi as one the most controversial Sufis who is also well-known because of the notion of wahdat al-wujud (the Unity of Being) puts forward his original thought of negative theology. Ibn Arabi always warns, in many of his books, that God (or al-Haqq in his own term), on one hand, is always transcendent, and no one knows God except God.
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On this video, I endeavour to re-present the notion of Ibn Arabi's apophatic in the history of Islamic philosophy and of Sufism, since many Muslims incorrectly consider Ibn Arabi kufr or a heretic or polytheist only by reason of their assumption concerning the notion of wahdat al-wujud ascribed to Ibn Arabi. This video helps clarify many misunderstandings in order to lie wrong accusation at the proper place. God according to Ibn Arabi is totally negative, or full of negativity (tanzih).
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References:
A. E. Afifi, The Mystical Philosophy of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939).
A. E. Afifi, “Ibn Arabi”, in M. M. Sharif (ed.), A History of Muslim Philosophy, vol. 1 (Wiesbaden, 1963).
Binyamin Abrahamov, Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam: An Annotated Translation of the Bezels of Wisdom (London: Routledge, 2015).
Ibn Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom, trans. R. W. J. Austin (New York: Paulist, 1980).
Muhammad al-Fayyadl, Negative Theology of Ibn 'Arabi: The Critiques of the Divine Metaphysics (Yogyakarta: LKiS, 2012).
Sachiko Murata, The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook of Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought (New York: SUNY Press, 1992).
Toshihiko Izutsu, Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concept (California: University of California Press, 1993).
William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination (New York: SUNY Press, 1989).
William C. Chittick, “Ibn Arabi”, in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman (eds.), History of Islamic Philosophy (London & New York: Routledge, 1996).
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