Zuhd in Ibn Arabi

This study aims to reveal the place of Ibn Arabi's ascetic understanding, one of the representatives of Sufi philosophy in Islamic thought, in the Islamic Sufi tradition. Accordingly, the study consists of two parts. In the first chapter, the nature of ascetism, the factors affecting its birth, ascetic schools and some concepts that are close to ascetism in terms of meaning are explained in general terms and the development of ascetism in the historical process before Ibn Arabi is revealed. In the second part, Ibn Arabi's understanding of ascetism is revealed and compared with al-Fârâbî, Ibn Sina, Ghazali, Ibn Bajja, Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Miskeveyh and Sihâbuddin as-Suhrawardî's thought on ascetism. In this context, Ibn Arabi, like the thinkers before him, argues that ascetism is necessary to reach divine truths. However he differs from them by grounding that ascetism is one of the temporary destination in the journey of truth with the idea of unity of existence.