IBN `ARABI [Muhyiuddin Abu `Abdallah ibn ul-`Arabi] Muslim theologian and mystic, was born in Murcia and educated in Seville. When thirty-eight he travelled in Egypt, Arabia, Baghdad, Mosul and Asia Minor, after which he lived in Damascus for the rest of his life. In law he was a Zahirite, in theology a mystic of the extreme order, though pro fessing orthodox Ash`arite theology and combating in many points the Indo-Persian mysticism (pantheism). He claims to have had conversations with all the prophets past and future, and reports conversations with God himself. Of his numerous works about 150 still exist. The most extensive is the twelve-volume Futuliat ul-Makkiyat ("Meccan Revelations"), a general encyclopaedia of Sufic beliefs and doctrines.
Of some 289 works said to have been written by Ibn `Arabi i5o are mentioned in C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der arabischen Litteratur, vol. i. (Weimar, 1898), pp. 441-448. See also R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs, pp. (1907).