Ibn Arabi framed an all-embracing heart as the truest site of devotion.

Evidence

My heart has adopted every shape; it has become a pasture for gazelles And a convent for Christian monks, A temple for idols and a pilgrim’s Kabah, the tables of a Torah and the pages of a Qur’an. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 99

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Concretely defines convivencia’s internal logic through Ibn Arabi’s Sufi verse rather than abstract tolerance talk.
  • BMF: The shape-shifting, all-forms heart recalls the protagonist’s empathetic religious transposition in The Reluctant Fundamentalist — but the closest real match is Ibn Arabi’s own legacy of universalist Sufism; suggests adding MarĂ­a Rosa Menocal’s The Ornament of the World to the reading list.