ABSTRACT
Ibn Arabi was an Islamic mystic, a Sufi, whose ideas occupy a significant position in the development of Islamic theology and practice. His thought is sometimes excluded from philosophical surveys on the51grounds that he was a religious visionary rather than a philosopher, yet the intensity and penetration of his mystical thinking and its grounding in a conceptually rich account of the relationship between God and humankind have always invited and received philosophical comment and consideration. In particular, his doctrine of the Unity of Being, espousing the notion of a single Reality that both transcends and is manifest in the universe, has stimulated lively debate amongst Islamic intellectuals over many centuries.
