Teachers and spiritual companions
Selected accounts of al-Uryabi, al-Mirtuli, Fatima of Cordoba and other formative figures.
People in the Akbarian tradition
Teachers, companions and later interpreters
Explore the people who shaped Ibn al-Arabi’s formation, transmitted his writings or read them in later centuries.
Arabic directory and full teacher list · العربية ↗Formation and spiritual influence
These pages concern Ibn al-Arabi’s learning and spiritual formation. Influence, textual transmission and a personal meeting are different relationships.
Abu Madyan
A Maghribi teacher and spiritual influence. This biography does not establish a personal meeting with Ibn al-Arabi.
The ijaza and its teachers
An English rendering of all seventy numbered teacher entries, with books, transmission details and editorial uncertainties.
Companions and transmitters
These figures belong to Ibn al-Arabi’s circle and the early transmission of his writings.
Ismail ibn Sawdakin
Companion, scholar and transmitter of Ibn al-Arabi’s works.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
An existing English guide to a central figure in the early Akbarian tradition.
Later readers and spiritual teachers
These figures lived centuries later. Their relationship is one of reading, interpretation and reception.
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
An Ottoman Damascene scholar, poet and teacher of the Futuhat.
Ahmad al-Harun
A twentieth-century Damascene spiritual teacher and mentor of al-Ghurab.
Mahmud al-Ghurab
A compiler and interpreter whose thematic collections helped readers navigate Ibn al-Arabi’s corpus.
Historical accounts
This archival text concerns the ruler of Erbil. It does not establish a teacher relationship to Ibn al-Arabi.
Muzaffar al-Din Gökböri of Erbil
The Arabic account of the Mawlid celebrations, distinguished from the different al-Muzaffar who received the ijaza.