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By : Dominique Penot - Friday, 14 January 2011 00:00 |
 Mystic, poet, wise, Moheïddine Ibn Al ’Arabî is one of the most important representative of the "way of love" within mystic in Muslim tradition. He was born in Andalusia in 1165, his huge works are still studied, meditated not only in the Arab and Muslim world but also in Western countries and in Asia: they contain indeed the initiating and spiritual science of Islam.
By virtues of the exceptional fecundity of the work of Ibn Arabi, who used to dictate his thought automatically, his disparagers only see in his work a mess hard to clear. Yet, thanks to asceticism and to deepening, it appears to be coherent and powerful, particularly if we put it in perspective with the Koran. To Ibn Arabi, the Koran is an invitation to a spiritual course that man has to cross to reintegrate the original state, the state of universal man which Prophet is the example. To Ibn Arabi, saintliness is the access to divine names and to hidden meanings of the Koran, these ones don't come from the literal meaning and give a revivified reach to it.
 
In this 47-minutes presentation, Dominique Penot talks about great themes of the work of this unique master who was Ibn Arabi. He shows the man, the wise, putting him in perspective with his time, his posterity... and his disparagers (Ibn Taymiyyah and Mohammed ibn Abd el-Wahhab who initiated the the Wahhabi way of thinking).
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