Description IBN \'ARABI: Selected Poems Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith In the West he is known as the Doctor Maximus and in the Islamic world as The Great Master.
In 1223 he settled in Dam.
In 1204 he began further travels.
At thirty-five he left for Mecca where he completed his most influential book of Poems The Interpreter of Ardent Desires and began writing his masterpiece, the vast Meccan Revelations.
Born in Murcia in Spain in 1165 his family moved to Seville.
Description IBN \'ARABI: Selected Poems Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith In the West he is known as the Doctor Maximus and in the Islamic world as The Great Master