Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yūsuf al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274) was the stepson and foremost disciple of the celebrated mystic of Andalusian origin Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240). He was also a critical thinker and talented metaphysician in his own right, who had a major impact on Ṣūfī thought.
He was born in about 605/1208–9 in Malatya in the Seljuk (Saljūq) sultanate of Rūm (eastern Anatolia, 473–707/1081–1307), where his father, Majd al-Dīn Isḥāq (d. c.615/1218), …