Theory of Microcosm and Macrocosm in Ibn Al’Arabi’s School

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

mahdi farahnaki moghaddam ¹ , Ehsan Ghodratollahi ² , Mohammad Reza Balanian ³

1 - PHD Student, Islamic Mysticism, Research Institute of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution, Iran
2 - Assistant professor Department of Religions and Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Forigen Language, University of Kashan, Iran.
3 - Assistant professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Yazd, Iran

Received: 2022-03-07 Accepted : 2022-03-07 Published : 2022-03-21

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The thought of Microcosm and Macrocosm in the Muslim world has mostly been brought up among philosophers and mystics such as Ikhvan-Al-Safa, Ismaeiliyeh, Ghazzali, Sheykh-e-Ishragh, Attar and Rumi. In Ibn AL’Arabi’s school, the theory is considered as a fundamental one which has a deep link with cosmology and humanology of his mystical system. The correspondence of Man and Univers in Ibn AL’Arabi’s school can be examined from two approaches: General correspondence and Particular correspondence.The Particular correspondence in which every member of human body is conformed to a special part of the univers, mostly has an allegorical and artistic side and lead us to more significant aims. The General correspondence in which the generic Man is considered has a strong relation to the principal doctrine of Ibn AL’Arabi’s school i.e. Wahdat-e-Wujud –Unity of Existence. On this basis, Man and Univers have been created according to the Image of God and therefore both of them are corresponding to each other.