No book by Ibn Arabi circulated among Spanish Moriscos.

Evidence

It is dangerous to base too much on an absence of evidence, but the lack of signs of Sufiliterature is striking. The great “BenArabi” was certainly remembered by the Young Man from Ar´evalo, but rather as a sort of thaumaturge, and within the present context it has to be said that although the name was bandied about in order to impress, not a single book of all his enormous production can be shown to have circulated among Moriscos. This is, frankly, surprising. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 708

Categorization

• QUESTION: Ibn Arabi’s name was used ‘to impress’ while his works were absent — worth wondering how name-dropping operated in crypto-Muslim communities as reputation signaling without textual access.