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manifest to two people in the same image, and this is due to the Divine Vastness. And this is the
degree by which a man exceeds a woman.
In another section in the Futuhat, Ibn ‘Arabî is intent not on erasing the ontological degree that
belongs to man, but on making it equivalent to a spiritual degree belonging to woman. He says:
“Do you not observe God’s wisdom in giving an increase to woman over man in terms of name?
He says of man al-marî, while He says of woman al-marîah. Thus He increased her by ha-in
pause (gram.) and by ta-in conjunction (gram.) when compared to the name “man”. So she has a
degree over that of man’s in that station, which corresponds to His saying, -men have degrees over
them [women]’ so He filled this gap with that increase for women (marîah).”
He follows up the linguistic context which manifests woman’s superiority over man, by saying:
“… and had there been no honour paid to the feminine other than the fact that both the Divine
Essence (dhat) and Quality (sifa) are feminine [in gender], that would have been sufficient”.
It is in this manner that Ibn ‘Arabî is insistent on placing woman on the same footing as man, for
as he says, “the universe depends on two orders”, that is to say, on man and woman.
Conclusion
Ibn ‘Arabî’s positive and unadulterated view of woman is astonishingly modern when compared
to contemporary perspectives, be it those of some Muslim extremists who treat women as a lesser
being, or those of people who demand a reassessment, historical, linguistic, legal, theological, etc.,
of woman’s place in both the East and the West, according to some other kind of limitation.
This view also shows the humanity of Islam, cleansed of all the oppression, coercion and
persecution of women that has been attributed to it. Indeed the vision of Ibn ‘Arabî extends far
beyond the sixth-century Hijrah to fill woman with sanctity - and she is in dire need of it today -
and to restore truly Islamic principles, which have been banished by the passage of years and
masked by personal interests.
Translated from the Arabic by Nermine Hanno
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http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/women.html
Frithjof Schuon - a leading exponent of the philosophia perennis
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Frithjof Schuon, also known as Shaykh `Isa Nur al-Din Ahmad al-Shadhili alDarquwi al- `Alawi
al-Maryami, was a leading exponent of the philosophia perennis and traditional metaphysics. A
spiritual master, metaphysician, poet and painter, he wrote major works on traditional doctrines
and themes. He wrote in German, French, Arabic and English. His corpus of published works is