Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi was born in Murcia, in Muslim Andalusia, in an age when Islamic civilisation stood at one of its great peaks of intellectual and spiritual flowering. By the time of his death in Damascus, he had produced a body of work so vast, so intricate, and so daring in its metaphysical reach that scholars have spent eight centuries attempting to map its full dimensions. His two most celebrated works — al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations) and Fusus al-Hikam (The Bezels of Wisdom) — remain among the most studied and debated texts in the entire history of Islamic thought.....

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