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Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Wahdat al-wujud — the Unity of Being: all existence is a theophany of the one divine Real
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Non-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Variable |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | Mystical |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Both — the eternal divine self-knowledge and the temporal unfolding of creation. Time is emergent from the divine self-disclosure; at the deepest level, the "eternal now" of God's self-knowledge is non-directional. The cosmos is renewed at every instant (tajaddud al-khalq).
Space
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Infinite, emergent, non-local. Space is a theophany: the loci of manifestation (mazahir) are the sites where the divine names appear, but the underlying Reality is not spatially bounded.
Matter
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Emergent and variable: the material world is the densest level of divine self-disclosure, continuously renewed. "New creation at every breath" implies that matter is not independently conserved.
Observer
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
The Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil) is the supreme observer — the mirror in which God contemplates His own names. Passive in the sense that knowledge comes through unveiling (kashf) rather than discursive effort. Singular: the divine Real is the ultimate observer.
Energy
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Infinite, emergent, reversible. The divine creative energy (fayd) flows continuously; the cosmos is sustained by perpetual divine self-disclosure, not by conserved material forces.
Information
Ibn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi)
Conserved in the divine knowledge ('ilm ilahi). The divine names constitute an infinite information-space whose self-disclosure is the cosmos. Personal identity is conserved in the divine knowing.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Ibn Arabi's wahdat al-wujud was fiercely attacked by Ibn Taymiyya and the Hanbali tradition as tantamount to pantheism and the denial of the Creator-creature distinction. The Akbarian school responds that wahdat al-wujud is not pantheism but panentheism: God is not identical with the world but is the only true existent of which the world is a theophany. His claim to visionary authority sits uneasily with both rationalist philosophy and literalist jurisprudence. His enormous influence on Persian, Turkish, and South Asian Islam coexists with his contested status in Sunni orthodoxy.