'Arabî and the Mi'râj - Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society

9with Ibn 'Arabi's account, narrated in the first person and closely following the path of theProphet, of the climactic stages of his own personal spiritual journey. 25 If the autobiographicalguise at first seems only a sort of didactic literary device, at the end (section IV-I) he doesconclude with the description of a decisive personal "revelation," a compelling spiritualexperience that seems to have contained--or at least confirmed--virtually all the most distinctivepoints of his later thought and conviction, the forms of divine knowledge which he goes on toelaborate in a long enumeration of "what he saw" in that culminating "Muhammadan Station."25 Which, as he reminds us at the beginning of Section IV, closely parallels his earlierautobiographical descriptions of the same personal spiritual itinerary in the Kitab al-Isra'; see ourtranslation and commentary of a key corresponding passage from that work in the article cited at n. 13above.