This book explores how Ibn alArabi 11651240 used the concept of barzakh the Limit to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term barzakh indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that paradoxically then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn alArabis unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn alArabis development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man and compares Ibn alArabis vision with Platos.