Murcia

Murcia (Mursiya), in southeastern Spain, was founded as a city in 825 under the Umayyad emirate of Cordoba and became the capital of a taifa kingdom in al-Andalus. It is the birthplace of the great mystic Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), the 'greatest master' (al-Shaykh al-Akbar) of Sufi metaphysics, and of the Shadhili Sufi Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (d. 1287), who took his nisba from it.