This core exposition skillfully clarifies a number of disputed (or more often simply misunderstood) problems in Ibn 'Arabi and other Sufi authors - questions such as the nature of the Muhammadan Reality, the various types of prophecy (both nubuwwa and the ???scriptural??? risala), the relations of different members of the spiritual hierarchy (Qutb, Imams, Awtad, etc.), the special role for Ibn