Awhad al-Din Kermani The Rise of Ibn Arabi's Thoughts in Persian Literature

The rise-point of Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn 'Arabī’s thoughts in Persian literature seems somehow vague. Awhad al-Din Kermani was the closest person to him in term of time and is known as one of his same-age close friends. Awhad al-Din has pointed to their own intimate relationships and meetings in Konya, Cairo and Damascus in his biographies and praising works. This intimacy was to the extent that Ibn 'Arabī gave Awhad al-Din the esoteric training of Sadr al-Din Qunawi. Moreover, in his Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya ("The Meccan Illuminations"), Sheikh al-Akbar referred to Awhad al-Din and explained what he had heard from his mouth. There are also pantheistic concepts with declaration of word in Awhad al-Din’s quatrains that have romantic tone and confirm that he was affected by sheikh al-Akbar. The concepts of permanent archetypes and perfect human have been explored through a romantic mysticism and an aesthetic thought in the quatrains of Awhad al-Din. We are, in present article, to prove Awhad al-Din as the first Persian poet who was influenced by Ibn 'Arabī’s thoughts using historical evidences and based on his poems, and even that he had granted the color of pantheistic ideas, just like what belonged to Ibn 'Arabī, along with a romantic mysticism before Qunawi and his colleagues.