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In this article, Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabî's perception on the intellectual background of ishârî exegesis are examined, and the determination of principles of the method regarding the Quran exegesis of Ibn al-Arabi, who with the ideas he put forward had significant impacts on the historical development process of the Sufism, are aimed. Ishârî exegesis that is associated with sûfi's personal experience in the perception of Ibn al-Arabî relates to the inner meanings of Quran. Theorically, it contains interpretations that cannot be reproduced again. In this article, a number of principles have been identified from his understanding of being, knowledge, man and Quran that is the source of Ibn al-Arabi's interpretations. In frame of these principles, it is determined that the couple of zâhir and bâtın constitute the key principles that are related with the showing up of ishâri exegesis; and the relation of zâhir and bâtın with each other specifies the characteristic of this kind of exegesis; and the concept of manifestation adds dynamism to ishârî exegesis; and it is tackled Ibn al-Arabî's thoughts about man and Quran in the platform that supplies with the balance of speech and interlocutor; and his ideas about the sources of knowledge contain a number of starting points that accord with his ideas about the being.

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