Massignon positioned Sufi mysticism as the disruptive countercurrent within orthodox Islam.

Evidence

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿArabī — the most influential Sufi metaphysician of the medieval Islamic-civilizational period, known across the subsequent Sufi tradition as al-Shaykh al-Akbar (“The Greatest Master”) — was born in Murcia, al-Andalus, in 1165, traveled across Andalusia, North Africa, Egypt, the Hijaz, and Anatolia, and died in Damascus in 1240. His al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Openings) — 560 chapters across approximately 17,000 pages of Arabic-language Sufi metaphysics — is the single largest metaphysical-Sufi work of the medieval period. — , The Rod and the Child, 3590 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ibn Arabi authored the largest metaphysical-Sufi work of the medieval era — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3590

Related

• Ibn Arabi authored the largest metaphysical-Sufi work of the medieval era (similarity 0.94)
• Massignon argued Sufism grew from the Qur’an against prevailing orthodoxy (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ibn Arabi authored the largest metaphysical-Sufi work of the medieval era #exemplifies (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 3590