Absolute being from the viewpoint of Ibn Arabi and Shankara

Abstract

Certainly, the ontological thought of Ibn Arabi and Shankara is the greatest achievements in the spheres of theoretical researches and mystical intuitions in Islamic world, India and all over the world. This thought that prepares the way to freedom, salvation and formation of pantheistic school. This article attempts to study the views and thoughts of these great thinkers of Islamic and Hindu world about ontology and compare them. It shows that undetermined essence in Ibn Arabi’s school and Nirguna in Shankara’s viewpoint are similar

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