Ibn Arabî (1165-1240), also called "Cheikh al-Akbar” (“The Greatest of all Masters”) was an Arab mystic and author of 846 texts covering love, passion, beauty and loss. His texts also profoundly influenced thinkers of all following generations in both the East and West.
He was trained in theology and in the science of the great masters, including Averroè, whom he met in Cordoba, creating in him a great certainty of his path. He went on to receive a revelation of the ‘absolute holiness of Mohamed’, believing he had received actual ‘pearls of wisdom’ from the prophet himself. His works focus on metaphysics and are rigorous in conception but also are the product of genuine spiritual visions.
His works include "The Meccan Illuminations", whose reputation sealed his fate as ‘The son of Plato’, and also "Treaty on Unity", "Treaty on Love", "The Wisdom of the Prophets", "The Universal Tree", etc.
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