It is valid for a woman to lead the formal prayer!

While edition Aisha Bewley translation of Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat al-makkiyya, “The Mysteries of Formal Prayer,” Paragraphs 593-595 I learned that Ibn Arabi has ruled that a woman can lead the formal prayer! Here is what the section says:

24.5.2. The Interpretation of the Leadership [of the Formal Prayer] of a Woman
The interpretation in that is that the Messenger of God testified that some women are perfect as he testified that some men are perfect, even if there are more perfect men than women. This is prophethood and prophethood is leadership, so it is valid for a woman to be a leader of the formal prayer. The basic root is to permit her to act as a leader. Whoever forbids that without any proof should not be listened to. The one who forbids that has no text. His proof of that includes something else and is shared. Therefore, the proof falls away and the basic root of allowing her to be a leader remains. (593)
Know that man is a world in himself and is multiple in respect of meaning, even if he is small in volume. For this reason, He says: “You only we worship” with the nun of the plural. He made his limbs and outward and inward faculties follow what rules them and is ahead of them. That is the intellect, the self and passion. Each of them can act as a leader to the group at any one time. All acts of obedience are close to the intellect. Permitted actions are close to the self. Acts of opposition are close to passion. (594)
The intellect is told: “When your self is fed up with following you in immediate matters and imitating you when you are the leader and it advances in permitted matters and becomes your leader, then follow it and pray behind it in order to guard it so that passion will not deceive it. If passion follows it in that state, it might pull it into the forbidden.” In places like this, the leadership of the self is permitted. This is the leadership of a woman. The leadership of the intellect is in the position of the Muslim man who is adult, has knowledge, and is legitimate. The leadership of passion is in the position of the leadership of the hypocrite, unbeliever and impious. The leadership of the self is in the position of the leadership of women. (595)