Ibn ‘Arabi: the only great theologian of History that has given woman absolute equality

“Ibn ‘Arabi is the only great theologian of History that has given woman absolute equality within the Absolute. Thus for him, the world is held in balance because it is upheld by a human ,living, pole - a qutb - who at his death is immediately replaced by another. If this pole were missing the world would falter into definitive chaos. And by affirming that this pole can be a woman, Ibn ‘Arabi gives women a promordial function in the essential economy of the universe. “The image of woman in Ibn ‘Arabi represents - in the XIIIth century - a turning point in the genesis of the Notion of “woman” in the Arabo-Islamic world and, by way of influence, in Western thought." - Etel Adnan