Ibn al-‘Arabi · Theology
For Ibn al-‘Arabi, the unknowable God becomes knowable through the divine names - Merciful, Avenger, Living, Hidden - and the whole cosmos is the endless self-disclosure (tajalli) of those names in the mirror of creation.
You learned that for Ibn al-‘Arabi the unknowable Essence discloses itself through the divine names, each name a relation between God and the cosmos; that creation is tajalli, the endless self-disclosure of the names in the mirror of the immutable entities; and that the cosmos exists to let God contemplate His own nam…
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