Of Persian stock, Maghribi was born in 1349 in the village of Ammand, near the city of Tabriz.

[1] The area was part of the Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran,[2] which was then controlled by the Mongol Chobanid dynasty.

[4][1] The two centuries that followed after Ibn Arabi's death, the majority of figures that followed and spread his teachings were from the Persianate world, Maghribi being one of them.

[5] Maghribi spread Ibn Arabi's teachings through oral instruction and his written works, such as his poetry.

For example, in the introduction of his divan, he makes a comparison between his own poetry and Ibn Arabi's well-known poetical work Tarjuman al-Ashwaq ("The interpreter of desires").