Ibn Arabi and the Problem of Infusion of Beauty in the Cosmos

Aesthetics as a discipline has been in the center of studies and researches of different groups of thinkers. One of the problems in this relation is the domain of beauty. Does beauty extend to all existent things or it is limited to some and the others will be regarded as ugly? The answer to this question depends on our view in ontology from one side and aesthetics from another side. One of the approaches to this problem is that of Islamic Mysticism. Based on the revealed scriptures، Muslim mystics have represented cognitive answers to this question. Since among Muslim mystics Ibn Arabi has been the most influential one، we have focused our discussion on his ideas in this paper. We will study his views on the «domain of beauty in the cosmos». We will approach his views from ontological and aesthetic dimensions. We will show that from his point of view، beauty is identical to existence and there is no ugliness in the world.