Waḥdat al-wujūd, a phrase developed by Ibn ʿArabī’s followers to sum up his teaching, holds that real being belongs to God alone, and that the world is the self-disclosure of God in the forms of creatures. It became one of the most influential and controversial ideas in Islamic thought.
Waḥdat al-wujūd
The oneness of being: the teaching, associated with Ibn ʿArabī, that there is only one true existence, God’s.
Also: Wahdat al-wujud, unity of being