page_title: Ibn Arabi
section_title: Pilgrimage to Mecca
hierarchical_section_title: Ibn Arabi / Biography / Pilgrimage to Mecca
caption_attribution_description: English: Opening pages of the Konya manuscript of the Meccan Revelations, handwritten by Ibn Arabi. العربية: الصفحتان الافتتاحيتان لمخطوطة قونية لكتاب الفتوحات المكية اللتان خططهما الشيخ محيي الدين ابن عربي بخط يده
context_page_description: Ibn ʿArabi, full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibnʿArabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī al-Andalusi al-Mursi al-Dimashqi, nicknamed al-Qushayri and Sultan al-'Arifin was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, whose works have grown to be very influential beyond the Muslim world. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world.
  He is renowned among practitioners of Sufism by the names al-Shaykh al-Akbar, Muḥyiddin ibn Arabi, and was considered a saint. He was also known as Shaikh-e-Akbar Mohi-ud-Din Ibn-e-Arabi throughout the Middle East.
context_section_description: Ibn Arabi left Spain for the first time at age 36 and arrived at Tunis in 1193. While there, he received a vision in year 1200 instructing him to journey east. After a year in Tunisia, he returned to Andalusia in 1194. His father died soon after Ibn Arabi arrived at Seville. When his mother died some months later he left Spain for the second time and travelled with his two sisters to Fez, Morocco in 1195. He returned to Córdoba, Spain in 1198, and left Spain crossing from Gibraltar for the last time in 1200. After visiting some places in Maghreb, he left Tunisia in 1201 and arrived for the Hajj in 1202. He lived in Mecca for three years, and there began writing his work Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (الفتوحات المكية) – 'The Meccan Illuminations'.
caption: Opening pages of the Konya manuscript of the Meccan Revelations, handwritten by Ibn Arabi.
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