About the Book: The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi`s Metaphysics of
Imagination
Ibn al-Arabi is still known as "the Great Sheik" among the surviving Sufi
orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest
mystical thinker of Islamic civilization. He was a great philosopher,
theologian, and poet. William Chittick takes a major step toward exposing the
breadth and depth of Ibn al-Arabis vision. The book offers his view of spiritual
perfection and explains his theology, ontology, epistemology, hermeneutics, and
soteriology. The clear language, unencumbered by methodological jargon, makes it
accessible to those familiar with other spiritual traditions, while its
scholarly precision