
HoP 179 - Mohammed Rustom on Philosophical Sufism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Anti-Systematic Spirit of Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi is not technically speaking a systematic thinker so you're correct definitely to say that. He's not systematic in that he does not try to fit things neatly into an order and worldview. Onui represents a unique turning point in the history of philosophical Sufism in a way that Ibn Arabi doesn't because we have here for the first time a first-rate philosopher a theologian but somebody who's trained by none other than Ibn Arabi himself.
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