Wahdat al-wujūd is a doctrine in the field of Islamic philosophy and mysticism, according to which the monotheistic God is identical with existence and this one existence is that through which all exi
First page of a manuscript of Īḍāḥ al-maqṣūd min maʿnā waḥdat al-wujūd, an Arabic treatise by Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (d. 1731) on wahdat al-wujūd. The manuscript dates from the 18th century and is located in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
The tomb of Makhdūm ʿAlī al-Mahā'imī in Mumbai
Ibn 'Arabī 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
Wahdat al-wujūd
…existing things (mawjūdāt) exist. This doctrine, which in recent research is characterized as ontological monism, is attributed to the Andalusian Sufi Ibn Arabi (d. 1240) but was essentially developed by the philosophically oriented interpreters of his works. In the Early Modern Period, it gained great popularity…
Tomb of Ibn Arabi, Damascus, Syria
Seville, where Ibn Arabi spent most of his life and education
Ibn Arabi's tomb in Damascus
Ibn Arabi as imagined by a later artist