Al-Insān al-Kāmil

In Islamic theology, al-Insān al-Kāmil (Arabic: الإنسان الكامل), also rendered as Insān-i Kāmil (Persian/Urdu: انسان کامل) and İnsan-ı Kâmil (Turkish), is an honorific title to describe Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. The phrase means "the person who has reached perfection", literally "the complete person". It is an important concept in Islamic culture of the prototype human being, pure consciousness, one's true identity, to be contrasted with the material human who is bound by their senses and materialism. The term was originally used by Sunni Sufis and is still used by them, but it is also used by Alawites and Alevis. This idea is based upon a hadith, which was used by Ibn Arabi, that states about Muhammad: "I was a prophet when Adam was between water and clay."

The Sunni Islamic scholar Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki has published a Sīrah as al-Insān al-Kāmil. Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī was the author of an Arabic text entitled Al-Insān al-Kāmil. Ismailis believe that each Imam is a perfect man.