A Comparative Study of Hegel's and Ibn Arabi's Views on the Unity of Existence

The Oneness of Being (wahdat al-wujûd), which has a mystical root, has been proposed in the views of mystics and some philosophers. Ibn Arabî and Hegel have made this topic the focus of their discussions with different approaches. Ibn Arabî’s Oneness of Being is not the conceptual unity of being, but rather the unity of the external existence of beings that the mystics have achieved through intuition. According to this theory, there is no more than one true Being, and that is God, and everything that appears to exist other than God is only the determinations, attributes, and manifestations of the same Being. Hegel designs his philosophical system with the concern of finite and infinite connection. In his philosophical system, it is through this finite matter that one can speak concretely about the realization and realization of the absolute and infinite, and in a dialectical development, the unity of the real and the reasonable can be reached. Despite the similarities between the ideas of these two thinkers, their views in this field have a fundamental difference.