Presenting Ibn'Arabi

Within the frame of the "Jeudis de l'Institut du Monde Arabe", Jean Annestay opened the conference "Ibn'Arabi and the Revelations of Mecca"  on November 12th 2009 and presented the exceptional figure of this erudite, mystic and thinker.
Nicknamed the Shaykh al-Akbar, "the greatest master", Ibn'Arabi (1165-1240) influenced Muslim culture and continues to be the major reference of Sufi masters, from Maghreb to Far East. His huge work by its size and its content mixes the deepest esoteric teaching and fundamental religious prescriptions going through varied styles like history, grammar, poetry, hagiography, etc. By its richness, its diversity, its depth, its work is part of the most important of humanity, although, according to Ibn'Arabi himself, it all comes from the Koran, this "shoreless ocean".