Sense and Reason in Ibn al-Arabi's Epistemology

Abstract

Ibn al-Arabi is one of the most influential sufis-philosopher whose views have been oft-debated in the history of Islamic thought and there have been set forth many opposite judgments regarding his thought. Debates made about him, generally have come from the religious perspective and epistemological sources of his ontology, haven't been mentioned in respect of philosophical analyses. In this study, trying to examine Ibn Arabi's views concerning the sense and reason that are most important in philosophy as epistemological sources, we attempted to presenting the coherence, which necessarily should be between existence and knowledge, in the context of sense and reason.