Abdul Karim Jili, a descendant of Saint…
1420 CE to 1431 CE
Abdul Karim Jili, a descendant of Saint Gilani, the founder of the Qadiriyya dervish order, is another of the Sufis whose philosophy, like that of Ibn Arabi, has moved to a theosophical monism.
While little is known about his life, historians have noted that Jili traveled in India and lived in Yemen from 1393 to 1403.
He has written more than twenty books, of which Universal Man is the best known.
Jili is the foremost systematizer and one of the greatest exponents of the work of Ibn Arabi.
Universal Man is an explanation of Ibn Arabi’s teachings on the structure of reality and human perfection.
Since it was written, it has been held up as one of the masterpieces of Sufi literature.
Jili conceives of the Absolute Being as a Self, a line of thinking which will later influence the twentieth century Indian Muslim philosopher and poet Allama Iqbal.
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