The extremely influential mystic, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 634/1240), believes that the most advanced gnostics are imbued with a special power turns their religious experience into reality. This is of himma—the existentiation elite derive from God’s absolute existentiation. Ibn and his followers assert this power, which exercised by through an intense unremitting concentration, actually shap...