Hazrat Ibn Arabi

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Ibn Arabi left Andalusia for the first time at the age of 36 and arrived in Tunis in 1193. After a year in Tunisia, he returned to Andalusia in 1194. 

His father died shortly after Ibn Arabi's arrival in Seville. When her mother died a few months later she left Andalusia for the second time and traveled with her two sisters to Fez, Morocco in 1195. 

He returned to Córdoba, Andalusia in 1198, and left Andalusia for the last time from Gibraltar in 1200. 21 While there, he received a vision in which he was directed to the east. After visiting some places in the Maghreb, he left Tunisia in 1201 and came to Hajj in 1202. 

He lived in Mecca for three years,  and when he began to write his work Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya الفتوحات المكية 'TAAfter spending time in Mecca, he traveled throughout Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Anatolia. 

In 1204, Ibn Arabi met Shaykh Majduddīn Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf شيخ مجد الدين إسحاق بن يوسف, a native of Malatya and a high-ranking man in the Seljuk court.

 This time Ibn Arabi was traveling north; they first visited Medina and then in 1205 entered Baghdad. This visit gave him the opportunity to meet specific scholars of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir Jīlānī. 

Ibn Arabi stayed there for only 12 days because he wanted to visit Mosul to see his friend Alī ibn 'Abdallāh ibn Jāmi', the mystic Qaḍīb al-Bān 471-573 AH / 1079-1177 AD; قضيب البان. 

 There he spent the month of Ramaḍan and composed Tanazzulāt al-Mawṣiliyya تنزلات الموصلية, Kitāb al-Jalāl wa'l-Jamāl كتاب الجلال والجمال, "The Book of Sovereignty and Beauty" and Kunh māl-Murā Mur-Murāl -Murāl.

 176 he Meccan Illuminations'.n The year 1206 Ibn Arabi visited Jerusalem, Mecca, and Egypt. It was his first trip through Syria, visiting Aleppo and Damascus.

Later in 1207, he returned to Mecca where he continued reading and writing, spending time with his friend Abū Shujā bin Rustem and family, including Niẓām.

The next four to five years of Ibn Arabi's life were spent in these lands and he traveled and held his reading times in the presence of 22 Rabī 'al-Thānī 638 AH 8 November 1240 at the age of seventy. -fifth, Ibn Arabi died in Damascus.