In pursuit of the Muhammadan perfection: Of sects, saints and narratives of a prophetic nation

When the Andalusian Sufi theologian, the Greatest Master (Shaykh al-Akbar) Ibn 'Arabi expounded the concept of the Perfect Man (Insan al-Kamil) he was in fact talking about the Muhammadan reality, which according to the Sufis is the highest manifestation of God's attributes in the human being or more subtly the pure intellect. That the whole of creation came out that reality coupled with the various prophetic dispensations…