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The opening as it read in 2025
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Ibn Arabi and theoretical mysticism (Persian:ابن عربی و عرفان نظری) refers to a school of theoretical mystical thought which was developed and explored by Ibn Arabi . This thought movement also could be considered as the continuation of islamic philosophy.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “developed and explored by ibn arabi”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Life; Knowledge; Imagination”. Read the current article and compare.
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developed and explored by ibn arabi
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kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta
Sections that no longer exist
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