This essay reads Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi’s Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya as an edifice of knowledge born of spiritual experience, kashf, tawaf, and symbolic encounter around the Ka‘ba. Ibn Arabi did not merely write about Sufism; he built an entire architecture of Islamic epistemology that links the body, the spirit, the letters, language, the cosmos, and the divine names. From the Black Stone to the science of letters, from the living Ka‘ba to the limits of human language, Al-Futuhat emerges as a monumental work that demands a reading from within: not merely as a text, but as a map of ma‘rifa.
Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya: Understanding Ibn Arabi’s Architecture of Knowledge from Within
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