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AND SAINTHOOD IN THE DOCTRINE OF IBN 'ARABI" Michel Chodkiewicz).
(2) "... the "Sun of the West" (shams al-gharb) [= the Mahdi...]" "... as the Mahdi (= Ibn al- 'Arabi as mystical "Sun of the west")..."
"... The Siddiq (= the caliph, Abu Bakr) bears the Prophet's mantle, representing his authority in the beginning of the era of the universal caliphate, even as the Mahdi (= Ibn al-'Arabi as mystical "Sun of the west" and Seal of sainthood) does in the latter days." ("Ibn al-'Arabi's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon").
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