Ibn ‘Arabijev sufijski diskurs o ženi
Ibn ‘Arabi’s Sufi Discourse about Woman

Summary/Abstract: Woman occupies a significant place in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Sufi discourse. She has a polyvalent function in his spiritual anthropology, but equally so in his metaphysics and in traditional cosmological considerations. Ibn ‘Arabi did not show his special respect for women only by receiving special spiritual inspirations from her in his own spiritual quest (sayr al-sulūk) and knowledge of special spiritual states (ahwāl) and stations (maqāmāt) through which the friends of God pass on the spiritual path of Sufism, but he also showed such respect for her in the way he performed spiritual ordination over her, he wrapped her in Hidr’s robe of Sufism and initiated her into the mysteries of the spiritual doctrine of Sufism. As much as a woman on the spiritual path of Sufism could be a spiritual teacher to a man who is just entering the spiritual path, she could also, in her spiritual states and stations, be able to lead over many men and progress faster than them, about which the history of Sufi literature offers abundant plausible testimonies.

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