The Role of Ontological Viewpoint of Ibne-e-Arabi in Clarifying the Quiddity and Reality of Divine Revelation

The reality and quiddity of Divine revelation is among the complicated problems in Islam. Scholars and thinkers have presented different theories in order to clarify and analyze this issue. Ibn-E-Arabi’s explanation of revelation is of great importance and has been of special interest to thinkers. This paper first reviews, some issues about revelation, such as the meaning of revelation, necessity of revelation, levels of revelation and the relationship between revelation and mystical intuition. Ibn-Arabi's analysis of the manner of descent of revelation is based on an ontological perspective; so the paper initially explains this issue briefly and then, presenting four basic features of divine revelation which are derived from Ibn -Arabi’s ontological view, it analyses and clarifies how the descent of revelation occurs and what according to Ibn- Arabi's view, its reality is.