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Knysh, A. D. (1999). Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition. New York: State University of New York Press.

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• TITLE: Ibn ‘Arabi and Spinoza on God and the World

  AUTHORS: Muhammad Kamal

  KEYWORDS: Existence, Substance, Simplicity, Causality, Unity, Difference, Theophany, Transcendence and Immanence

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol.7 No.4, September 18, 2017

  ABSTRACT: This paper is a comparative analysis of Ibn ‘Arabi’s and Spinoza’s interpretation of God’s existence and its relation with the world. The focus will be on the ontology of these two thinkers from different intellectual traditions, elucidating their tripartite system in order to find out whether the reality of the world in its relationship to God is denied or affirmed. To vindicate the similarities between the ontological views of Ibn ‘Arabi and Spinoza this paper argues in light of God’s simplicity and causality that the existence of the world can be understood by denying and affirming its identity with God.