Ibn Arabi
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Ibn Arabi was a highly influential Islamic scholar and philosopher who lived in the medieval period and developed important ideas about Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam. His writings shaped how Muslims understood God, spirituality, and the nature of existence, and continue to be studied and debated in Islamic thought today.
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Ensemble Ibn Arabi is a Morocco‑based music group founded in Tangier in 1988 and named after the great Andalusian Sufi mystic and poet Muhyī al‑Dīn Ibn ʿArabī. Their repertoire revives the classical Arab‑Andalusian Sufi tradition—blending plaintive nay (end‑blown flute), ʿūd, violin, bendir and tanbūr—with devotional poetry by great Sufi figures such as Rabia al‑Adawiyya and Mansur al‑Hallaj. What sets them apart is a commitment to conveying the orthodox Sufi message—love <a href="https://www.la
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Ibn 'Arabī (July 1165–November 1240) was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general. There are 850 works attributed to Ibn 'Arabi, though only 700 of these are considered authentic, and only 400 are extant. His cosmological teachings became a dominant intellectual framework in many regions of the Muslim world.
His traditional title was Muḥyiddīn (Arabic: محيي الدين, lit. 'The Reviver of Religion'). After his death, practitioners of Sufism began referring to him by the honorific title Shaykh al-Akbar (Arabic: الشيخ الأكبر, lit. 'The Greatest Shaykh'), from which the term Akbarism is derived.