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Ibn Sab'in

ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Sabʿīn al-Mursī
محمدبن عبدالحق بن سبعين
Born1216/1217 CE
DiedMarch 21, 1271 CE
(9 Shawwal 669 AH)
Notable workSicilian Questions
SchoolFounder of the Sab'iniyya
Main interests
Sufism and philosophy
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Ibn Sab'īn (Arabic: محمدبن عبدالحق بن سبعين ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Sabʿīn al-Mursī) was an Arab[1][2] Sufi philosopher, the last[citation needed] philosopher of the Andalus in the west land of Islamic world. He was born in 1217 in Spain and lived in Ceuta. It has been suggested that he was a Neoplatonic philosopher, a Peripatetic philosopher, a Pythagorean philosopher, a Hermeticist, an alchemist, a heterodox Sufi, a pantheist, though none of these adequately characterise Ibn Sab'in.[3] He was also known for his knowledge of esotericism and was well versed in the knowledge of Islam and of other religions.[4]

From his time and continuing through to today, Ibn Sabʿīn has been criticized for his views, though often by detractors who did so without an in-depth knowledge of his works, as many of the accusations against Ibn Sabʿīn are invalidated by Ibn Sabʿīn’s own writings, and suggest that some of our author’s critics were not even familiar with his works.

  1. ^ Leaman, Oliver (2013-03-07). History of Islamic Philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 9781136780448.
  2. ^ Leaman, Oliver (2015-07-16). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472569455.
  3. ^ Cook, Benjamin G. (2012-07-01). "Ibn Sabʿīn and Islamic Orthodoxy: A Reassessment". Journal of Islamic Philosophy. 8: 94–109. doi:10.5840/islamicphil201288.
  4. ^ S. H. Nasr (2006), Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy, State University of New York Press, pp. 156-157.

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ابن سبعين Arabic İbn Səbin AZ ইবনে সাবেইন Bengali/Bangla Ibn Sabʿīn German Ibn Sabin al-Mursí Spanish ابن سبعین FA Ibn Sab'în French Ibnu Sab'in ID Ibn Sab'in Italian İbn Sebîn Turkish

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