https://www.ibnarabisociety.org/ en-us Copyright, 2011 MIAS Talks on the work of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and his followers Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society A selection of talks given at the annual symposia and events held by the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society This podcast offers a sampling of talks given by researchers, teachers, translators, and lovers of Ibn Arabi, given at the annual symposia, and in online seminars. Ibn,Arabi,Sufi,Sufism,Islam,Spirituality no nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.orgMuhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Michael Sells Michael Sells: 2000 USA Symposium "The Spirit of the Millennium" Michael Sells, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is a John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Michael Sells studies and teaches in the areas of qur'anic studies; Sufism; Arabic and Islamic love poetry; mysticism (Greek, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish); and religion and violence. He is currently completing a new and expanded edition of his 1999 book Approaching the Qur'an: the Early Revelations. He has published three volumes on Arabic poetry: Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes; which focuses upon the pre-Islamic period; Stations of Desire, which focuses upon the love poetry of Ibn al-'Arabi; and The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Al-Andalus which he co-edited and to which he contributed. His books on mysticism include Early Islamic Mysticism, translations and commentaries on influential mystical passages from the Qur'an, hadith, Arabic poetry, and early Sufi writings; and Mystical Languages of Unsaying, an examination of apophatic language, with special attention to Plotinus, John the Scot, Ibn al-'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Marguerite Porete. His work on religion and violence includes: The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia; and The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy which he co-edited and to which he contributed. He teaches courses on the topics of the Qur'an, Islamic love poetry, comparative mystical literature, Arabic Sufi poetry, and Ibn al-'Arabi. 1001 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:00:00 GMT 45:09 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Caner Dagli Caner Dagli: 2005 USA Symposium "Time and Non-Time" Caner Dagli is currently a professor in the Religion and Philosophy department at Roanoke College in Salem, VA. Dagli earned a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. from George Washington University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His dissertation is titled "From Mysticism to Philosophy and Back." He specializes in Islamic philosophy, mysticism in world religions and Sufism. He recently published a translation and study of the Fusus al-hikam, entitled "The Ringstones of Wisdom". 1002 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT 42:06 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, love, time, soul, Islamic philosophy nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cecilia Twinch Cecilia Twinch: 2001 USA Symposium "Responsibility" Cecilia Twinch read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. She has studied Ibn 'Arabi's work for many years and is actively involved with the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society based in Oxford, being Reviews Editor of the Journal. She has also studied at the Beshara School in Scotland. Besides working as a teacher, translator and editor, she has written numerous articles and has lectured on Ibn 'Arabi in Europe, America, North Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Publications include "Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi and the Interior Wisdom" in Los Dos Horizontes (The Two Horizons), "Julian of Norwich: 'All shall be well'" in Mujeres de Luz (Women of Light) and an English translation, with Pablo Beneito, of one of Ibn 'Arabi's earliest works, "Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries" (Mashahid al-asrar). 1003 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:00:00 GMT 53:18 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, love, responsibility, Beshara nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Stephen Hirtenstein: 2000 USA Symposium "The Spirit of the Millennium" Stephen Hirtenstein is editor of the Ibn 'Arabi Society Journal. He studied at the Beshara School in Scotland, and is co-founder of Anqa Publishing. His publications include a biography of Ibn 'Arabi, "The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi" (1999), a translation with Pablo Beneito of Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad as "The Seven Days of the Heart" (2000) and with Martin Notcutt of Ibn 'Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar as "Divine Sayings" (2005). He is currently working on a translation of some of Ibn 'Arabi's shorter texts. 1004 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:00 GMT 71:36 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, love, Beshara, Jesus, John nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: 2006 USA Symposium "Know Yourself" James W. Morris is professor in Theology at Boston College. He has written and taught in many areas of spirituality and religious thought, including the Islamic humanities, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and cinema in spiritual teaching. His recent books include The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations' (2005); Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation (2004); Knowing the Spirit (2006); and Ibn 'Arabi: The Meccan Revelations (2002). 1005 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT 62:45 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat, Sufism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Pablo Beneito: 2002 USA Symposium "The Service of Love" Dr. Pablo Beneito is Professor at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Seville. He has edited and translated several of Ibn 'Arabi's works: the Mashahid al-asrar (with Souad al-Hakim, Spanish and Arabic edn.; with Cecilia Twinch, English version); the Kashf al-ma'na (El secreto de los Nombres de Dios) on the Divine Names; and, with Stephen Hirtenstein, Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad, translated into English as The Seven Days of the Heart. Among other works, recently he has published the anthology La taberna de las luces on Sufi poetry and the book El lenguaje de las alusiones on Ibn Arabi's doctrines of love, beauty and compassion. He is the Director of the collection Alquitara (devoted to Oriental literature) in Ediciones Mandala (Madrid). 1006 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT 51:07 Ibn 'Arabi, Spain, Sufism, love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Peter Coates Peter Coates: 2003 USA Symposium "The Unity of Existence: Ibn 'Arabi and his School" Born in Lancashire, UK. Married with two grown up children. Read Philosophy and Religious Studies at Lancaster University and postgraduate research at Keble College, University of Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer at University of Lincoln, Department of Psychology specialising in courses on the Philosophy of the Self and Philosophy of Science. Retired in 2003. Student of Ibn 'Arabi form very many years. Co-director of the Chisholme Institute, Scotland which runs courses on behalf of the Beshara Trust in Intensive Esoteric Education. Published "Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought" (Anqa Publishing, Oxford, 2002). 1007 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT 42:34 Ibn 'Arabi, Beshara, Sufism, philosophy nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Vincent Cornell Vincent Cornell: 2003 USA Symposium "The Unity of Existence: Ibn 'Arabi and his School" Vincent J. Cornell is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 2000-2006, he was Professor of History and Director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas. From 1991-2000, he taught at Duke University. His published works include over twenty articles and three books, including The Way of Abu Madyan (Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society, 1996) and Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1998). His most recent publication is Voices of Islam, Vincent J. Cornell General Editor (Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2007), 5 volumes. This comprehensive introduction to Islamic religion, thought, life, and civilization includes chapters by 50 Muslim authors, including many of the premier scholars of Islamic Studies. Volume titles and editors: Volume 1 Voices of Tradition (Vincent J. Cornell); Volume 2 Voices of the Spirit (Vincent J. Cornell); Volume 3, Voices of Life: Family, Home, and Society (Virginia Gray Henry Blakemore); Volume 4 Voices of Art, Beauty, and Science (Vincent J. Cornell); Volume 5 Voices of Change (Omid Safi). Dr. Cornell's interests cover the entire spectrum of Islamic thought from Sufism to theology and Islamic law. He has lived and worked in Morocco for nearly six years, and has spent considerable time both teaching and doing research in Egypt, Tunisia, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He is currently working on projects on Islamic ethics and moral theology in conjunction with the Shalom Hartmann Institute in Jerusalem and the Elijah Interfaith Institute. For the past six years, he has been a key participant the Building Bridges Seminars hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1008 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT 65:42 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, philosophy nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Jane Clark: 2007 UK Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Jane Clark is a teacher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying Ibn 'Arabi's thought for nearly thirty years as a student of the Beshara School, and in 2000 took a degree at Oxford in order to read him in the original Arabic. She is particularly interested in the way that his ideas have spread throughout the world, and as Society Librarian has done research work on the early manuscripts. She has written and lectured on Ibn 'Arabi's thought and is most concerned with the universal appeal of his writings, especially as revealed in Fusus al-hikam. 1009 Sun, 27 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT 39:25 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Fusus al-hikam nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Elias Amidon Elias Amidon: 2007 UK Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Elias Amidon is the spiritual director of the Sufi Way International, a western Sufi Order in the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan. He has worked as an architect and urban planning consultant. For a number of years he worked with indigenous tribes in northern Thailand and Burma on land rights issues, and has led citizen-to-citizen delegations to Burma, Thailand, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine. He is currently a director of the Abraham Path Initiative. He is co-editor of the books Earth Prayers, Life Prayers, and Prayers for a Thousand Years 1010 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT 55:29 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Sufi Order, Abraham nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Salman Bashier Salman Bashier: 2007 UK Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Salman Bashier graduated from The University of Utah in August 2000. Since then he has been working as a visiting lecturer at Haifa University in the departments of Philosophy and Arabic Language and Literature. He is the author of "Ibn al-Arabi's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World". He is now completing a second book on the linkage between mystical and philosophical thought. His interests extend to Greek and Islamic philosophy and mysticism, Islamic theology, law, and Arabic literature and poetry. 1011 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT 31:51 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Philosophy, Barzakh, mysticism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ibrahim Kalin Ibrahim Kalin: 2005 USA Symposium "Time and Non-Time" Ibrahim Kalin is an assistant professor of Islamic studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. He received his B.A. in history from the University of Istanbul, Turkey, M.A. in Islamic thought from the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Malaysia, and Ph.D. from the George Washington University, Washington DC. He is the recipient of the CTNS Religion and Science Course Award, 2002 for his seminar "Religion and Science: Traditional and Modern Encounters". His book on Mulla Sadra's theory of knowledge entitled Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on the Unification of the Intellect and the Intelligible will appear among Oxford titles in 2006. 1012 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT 44:48 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Philosophy, mysticism, Mulla Sadra, Time nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Olga Louchakova Olga Louchakova: 2006 USA Symposium "Know Yourself" Olga Louchakova, M.D., Ph.D., is the core faculty professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the director of Transpersonal Education and Research Specialization. An acknowledged teacher of Advaita Vedanta, Kundalini Yoga and Prayer of the Heart, Olga received her teaching mandate in the Russian spiritual underground. She published many articles in neuroscience, spirituality and transpersonal psychology, and is currently working on the book-project dedicated to the Prayer of the Heart. She maintains private practice consulting on psychospiritual transformation in Bay Area, California. 1013 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT 64:46 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Philosophy, mysticism, psychotherapy, phenomenology, psychology, prayer of the heart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Samer Akkach Samer Akkach: 2006 USA Symposium "Know Yourself" Samer is an intellectual historian and architectural theoretician with expertise in Islamic philosophy and mysticism. He has studied extensively the works of Ibn 'Arabi and his later follower 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (d. 1731). His Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas (SUNY 2005) focuses on the influence of Ibn 'Arabi's teachings on architectural thinking, while his forthcoming book on Islam and the Enlightenment (Oneworld 2007) traces the development of Ibn 'Arabi's ideas through al-Nabulusi's life and works. 1014 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT 67:25 Ibn 'Arabi, Islam, religion, Sufism, Philosophy, mysticism, cosmology, architecture nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Niels Detert Niels Detert: 2007 UK Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Niels Detert has been a long-time student of Ibn 'Arabi under the umbrella of the Beshara School. He works as a Clinical Psychologist at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, specialising in Neuropsychology. His work is mainly clinical in the cognitive assessment and psychological therapy of people with neurological disorders. He lives in Oxford with his partner and young son. 1015 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT 36:16 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Philosophy, mysticism, Beshara, psychology nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Suleyman Derin Suleyman Derin: 2006 USA Symposium "Know Yourself" Suleyman Derin teaches at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Marmara in Istanbul. He obtained a Ph.D. from Leeds University, with a thesis titled Towards Some Paradigms on the Sufi Conception of Love: from Rabia to Ibn al-Farid, including a chapter on Ibn 'Arabi. His most recent work was on the subject of Ibn Arabi's approach to the verses of qisas "retaliation" titled "The Tradition of Sulh among the Sufis with Special Reference to Ibn 'Arabi and Yunus Emre" 1016 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT 36:03 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Philosophy, Love, Turkey, Rabia, Ibn al-Farid nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Carroll Jane Carroll: 2000 USA Symposium "The Spirit of the Millennium" Jane Carroll is a founding member of the Muyhiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and is Chairperson on the board of the Society in America. She works as an architect in Ojai, California. 1017 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:00:00 GMT 28:11 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Philosophy, Love, Time nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Angela Jaffray Angela Jaffray: 2007 USA Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Angela Jaffray received her PhD from Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2000. Her translations of Lorca's Sonnets of Dark Love were published in Collected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca. Since graduating, she has dedicated herself to translating and commenting on various texts of Ibn 'Arabi, including The Universal Tree and the Four Birds: Ibn 'Arabi's Treatise on Unification, recently published by Anqa Publishing, and Unveiling from the Effects of the Voyages. She lives in Chicago. 1018 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT 40:36 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Philosophy, Love, Water nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Peter Yiangou Peter Yiangou: 2007 USA Symposium "Unified Vision, Unified World?" Peter Yiangou is currently the senior partner of an architectural practice based in the Cotswolds in the UK. His interest in Ibn 'Arabi started in 1972 when he met Bulent Rauf, the founder member of the MIAS. His interest in Ibn 'Arabi has continued since then through the activities of the Beshara School, also founded by Bulent Rauf. He spent time as head of the first Beshara Centre at Swyre Farm in the UK in 1975, and a period as Chairman of the Beshara Trust in the early 90's. He has attended 6 month and short courses at the Beshara School where Ibn 'Arabi is part of the core curriculum. In recent years he has been involved in running 10 Beshara School courses in Australia and Indonesia. 1019 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT 42:08 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Beshara, Bulent Rauf, Education, globalisation nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Emil Homerin Emil Homerin: 2003 USA Symposium "The Unity of Existence: Ibn 'Arabi and his School" Th. Emil Homerin is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, where he teaches courses on Islam, classical Arabic literature, and mysticism. Homerin completed his Ph.D. with honors at the University of Chicago ('87), and has lived and worked in Egypt for a number of years. Among his many publications are From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint (2nd revised edition, Cairo: American University Press, 2001), his anthology of translations, Ibn al-Farid: Sufi Verse & Saintly Life (Paulist Press, 2001), The Wine of Love and Life (Chicago, 2005) and several chapters on Islam in the volume The Religious Foundations of Western Civilization (Abingdon Press, 2006). Homerin has been the recipient of grants from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also won a number of awards including the American Association of Teachers of Arabic Translation Prize, the Golden Key Honor Society's recognition for his contributions to undergraduate education, University of Rochester's Teacher of the Year in the Humanities (2002), and the University of Rochester's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education (2005). 1020 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT 51:31 Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Farid, Sufism, Unity of Existence nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Alexander Knysh Alexander Knysh: 2001 USA Symposium "Responsibility" Alexander Knysh is professor of Islamic Studies and former chair (1998-2004) of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Institute for Oriental Studies (Leningrad Branch) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1986. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in the United States of America and England. His research interests include Islamic mysticism and Islamic theological thought in historical perspective as well as Islam and Islamic movements in local contexts (especially Yemen and the Northern Caucasus). He has numerous publications on these subjects, including five books. 1021 Wed, 28 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT 42:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Responsibility nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ian Almond Ian Almond: 2008 UK Symposium "If not for you... Self and other in Ibn 'Arabi" Ian Almond is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He is the author of four books, mostly on Islam and its representation in the Western tradition. He lived for six years in Turkey, where he taught for the most part at Kayseri and Istanbul. 1022 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT 32:55 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Meister Eckhart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Eric Winkel: 2001 USA Symposium "Responsibility" After receiving his Ph.D. degree in International Studies, Eric Winkel taught at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Pakistan. From 2001-2008 he taught at a small school he co-founded in New Mexico based on constructivist learning strategies and learning teams. Currently, he is joining the National College of Arts, Lahore. He has written numerous articles and monographs on religion and sacred law. His latest work is a novel, Damascus Steel. Eric Winkel's other published works include Mysteries of Purity: Ibn al-'Arabi's asrar al-taharah (1995) and Islam and the Living Law: The Ibn al-'Arabi Approach (1997). Current research interest is "The Openings Project," a digital dars which is an effort to assist searchers to gain access to the Futuhat in their own ways. He and Ely have two children, Aman (6) and Amnah (5 months). 1023 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT 43:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Jane Clark: 2008 Chisholme House Jane Clark is a teacher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying Ibn 'Arabi's thought for nearly thirty years as a student of the Beshara School, and in 2000 took a degree at Oxford in order to read him in the original Arabic. She is particularly interested in the way that his ideas have spread throughout the world, and as Society Librarian has done research work on the early manuscripts. She has written and lectured on Ibn 'Arabi's thought and is most concerned with the universal appeal of his writings, especially as revealed in Fusus al-hikam. 1024 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT 58:50 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Chisholme House, Beshara, Konevi, Qunawi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sara Sviri Sara Sviri: 2008 UK Symposium "'If not for you...' Self and other in Ibn 'Arabi" Sara Sviri studied and has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies in Israel. In her studies, published in various compilations and journals, she has focused on the formation and characteristics of the early mystical schools of Islam, with special interest in the Malamati movement of Nishapur and in the mystical psychology of al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi. Her book, The Taste of Hidden Things: Images on the Sufi Path, portrays Sufism as a living tradition in which insights into the stations of the heart play an important role. 1025 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:00:00 GMT 50:54 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, chivalry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William Chittick William Chittick: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium William C. Chittick is professor of religious studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has spent forty years studying Ibn Arabi and his followers, not to mention the pre-modern Muslim intellectual tradition in general. Among his thirty books, five deal specifically with Ibn Arabi's thought: The Sufi Path of Knowledge (1989), Imaginal Worlds (1992), The Self-Disclosure of God (1998), Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (2005), and, as co-author, The Meccan Revelations (2002). 1026 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:00:00 GMT 30:17 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, animals, Wisdom nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Carl Ernst Carl Ernst: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of Islam and Sufism. His most recent book, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003), has received several international awards, including the 2004 Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement. His current projects include Muslim interpretations of Hinduism and the literary interpretation of the Qur'an. His publications include Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-authored with Bruce Lawrence, 2002); Teachings of Sufism (1999); a translation of The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master by Ruzbihan Baqli (1997);Guide to Sufism (1997); Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (1996); Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (1993); and Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985). 1027 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT 24:11 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, modernity, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Shahram Pazouki Shahram Pazouki: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Shahram Pazouki is professor of Philosophy and religious studies at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy and head of the department. He researches and teaches in the subjects of comparative philosophy and religions, Sufism,philosophy of art, and has published books and articles on these subjects. 1028 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT 25:10 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Iran nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Denis Gril Denis Gril: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Denis Gril was born in Paris in 1949. He studied Arabic language and civilisation at the Sorbonne. He spent several years in Arabic countries for teaching or reseach. He was for five years a member of the Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale in Cairo. Since 1981 he is a teacher of Arabic language and Islamic thought at the Universite de Provence. He is also a member of IREMAM (Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman). He studied, published and translated some works of Ibn al-'Arabi and different aspects of his doctrine. He is also interested by lifes of saints as a source for History of Sufism and also by the foundation of Islamic spirituality in Koran and Sunna. 1029 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT 24:24 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Adam, caliphate nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium James W. Morris is professor in Theology at Boston College. He has written and taught in many areas of spirituality and religious thought, including the Islamic humanities, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and cinema in spiritual teaching. His recent books include The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations' (2005); Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation (2004); Knowing the Spirit (2006); and Ibn 'Arabi: The Meccan Revelations (2002). 1030 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT 24:49 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat, Sufism, Mercy nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Stephen Hirtenstein: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Stephen Hirtenstein is editor of the Ibn 'Arabi Society Journal. He studied at the Beshara School in Scotland, and is co-founder of Anqa Publishing. His publications include a biography of Ibn 'Arabi, "The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi" (1999), a translation with Pablo Beneito of Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad as "The Seven Days of the Heart" (2000) and with Martin Notcutt of Ibn 'Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar as "Divine Sayings" (2005). He is currently working on a translation of some of Ibn 'Arabi's shorter texts. 1031 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT 28:32 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Integration, wholeness nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ghasem Kakaie Ghasem Kakaie: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Dr. Ghasem Kakaie is an Associate Professor and the Head of Theology and Islamic Sciences Department of Shiraz University in Iran. He was born in Shiraz in 1957. His main fields of researches are: Ibn Arabi, Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, and Comparative Mysticism. He has had a great and long time programme on interreligious dialogue from 1998 on. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals and also more than 10 books. He has won several scientific rewards in Iran, such as the best book of the year for his book: Oneness of Being from Ibn Arabi's and Meister Elkhart's viewpoints (2002). 1032 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT 22:16 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Meister Eckhart, Islam, Christianity nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Pablo Beneito: 2008 TURKKAD International Ibn Arabi Symposium Dr. Pablo Beneito is Professor at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Seville. He has edited and translated several of Ibn 'Arabi's works: the Mashahid al-asrar (with Souad al-Hakim, Spanish and Arabic edn.; with Cecilia Twinch, English version); the Kashf al-ma'na (El secreto de los Nombres de Dios) on the Divine Names; and, with Stephen Hirtenstein, Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad, translated into English as The Seven Days of the Heart. Among other works, recently he has published the anthology La taberna de las luces on Sufi poetry and the book El lenguaje de las alusiones on Ibn Arabi's doctrines of love, beauty and compassion. He is the Director of the collection Alquitara (devoted to Oriental literature) in Ediciones Mandala (Madrid). 1033 Sun, 17 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT 19:33 Ibn 'Arabi, knowledge, Sufism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Katia Holmes Katia Holmes: 2009 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Wisdom of the Heart Katia Holmes MA, MSc, Post-grad. Anthropology, spent three years lecturing at Paris University in the early 70s. A sabbatical at Samye Ling (Scotland) with Akong Rinpoche, one of the first Tibetan lamas in the West, led to a lifetime of study and practice of Buddhism. She has translated core Tibetan texts, interpreted for major Kagyu lineage masters and researched Tibetan medicine, besides translating professionally for French publishers. She is particularly interested in the issue of transposing concepts between cultures. Years of turning inwards and patient chiselling has made her appreciate the fragile power of words to evoke the ineffable. 1034 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT 45:49 Ibn 'Arabi, Buddhism, Samye Ling nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sebastian Brock Sebastian Brock: 2009 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Wisdom of the Heart Sebastian Brock is an authority in the field of Syriac language. He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute and currently an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Sebastian Brock completed his BA degree at the University of Cambridge, and a D. Phil at Oxford. He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates and has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch. He is a widely published author on Syriac topics. His best known books are The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian and The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life. 1035 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT 50:07 Ibn 'Arabi, Syriac church, prayer, heart, spriritual life, Christianity nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mohamed Haj Yousef Mohamed Haj Yousef: 2009 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Wisdom of the Heart After graduating from Aleppo University (Syria) in 1990, he did a Masters degree in Physics at Cambridge University. After teaching Physics for several years in the UAE, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in 2005. The subject of his research was "The Concept of Time in Ibn 'Arabi's Cosmology". A book based on this research, called Ibn 'Arabi - Time and Cosmology was published by Routledge in 2007. He has written other books related to Ibn 'Arabi including Shams-al-Magreb (in Arabic) which contains a detailed biography of Ibn 'Arabi. In addition he founded and runs the website www.ibnalarabi.com. Currently he is teaching at the United Arab Emirates University. 1036 Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT 35:08 Ibn 'Arabi, time, cosmology, heart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: 2009 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Wisdom of the Heart James Morris is Professor of Islamic Studies at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne, and the IIS in Paris and London. Professor Morris has published and lectures widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including the Islamic humanities and poetry, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and the Qur'an. His most recent books include Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation (2004); The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabiis "Meccan Illuminations" (2005); Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit (2007) and Openings: From the Qur'an to the Islamic Humanities (forthcoming). 1037 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT 58:24 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat, Sufism, heart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William Chittick Interview 10/12/09 on the radio show "Science, Health and Healing" with host Majid Ali, MD (WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio) William C. Chittick is professor of religious studies in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has spent forty years studying Ibn Arabi and his followers, not to mention the pre-modern Muslim intellectual tradition in general. Among his thirty books, five deal specifically with Ibn Arabi's thought: The Sufi Path of Knowledge (1989), Imaginal Worlds (1992), The Self-Disclosure of God (1998), Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (2005), and, as co-author, The Meccan Revelations (2002). 1038 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT 50:46 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, Islam nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mohamed Haj Yousef Interview 10/13/09 on the radio show "Science, Health and Healing" with host Majid Ali, MD (WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio) After graduating from Aleppo University (Syria) in 1990, he did a Masters degree in Physics at Cambridge University. After teaching Physics for several years in the UAE, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in 2005. The subject of his research was "The Concept of Time in Ibn 'Arabi's Cosmology". A book based on this research, called Ibn 'Arabi - Time and Cosmology was published by Routledge in 2007. He has written other books related to Ibn 'Arabi including Shams-al-Magreb (in Arabic) which contains a detailed biography of Ibn 'Arabi. In addition he founded and runs the website www.ibnalarabi.com. Currently he is teaching at the United Arab Emirates University. 1039 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT 44:28 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells, Aaron Cass, Taoufiq Ben Amor Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion - an Ibn Arabi Conference, presented by the Ibn Arabi Society and the Open Center, New York City, November 2009 Prof. Michael Sells (University of Chicago), one of the foremost translators of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, gives an introduction to the poetry of Ibn Arabi, and recites some of his unpublished poems. Aaron Cass and Taoufiq Ben Amor also recite poetry, alternating between English translation and original Arabic. 1040 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT 40:36 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence, poetry, Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, Heart of Compassion nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William C. Chittick Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion - an Ibn Arabi Conference, presented by the Ibn Arabi Society and the Open Center, New York City, November 2009 William C. Chittick, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies in the Asian and Asian American Studies Dept. at Stony Brook, has spent forty years studying Ibn 'Arabi and the pre-modern Muslim intellectual tradition. Among his thirty books, five deal with Ibn Arabi's thought: The Sufi Path of Knowledge, Imaginal Worlds, The Self-Disclosure of God, Ibn Arabi: Heir to the Prophets, and (as co-author) The Meccan Revelations. 1041 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT 45:58 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence, Heart of Compassion, Futuhat nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion - an Ibn Arabi Conference, presented by the Ibn Arabi Society and the Open Center, New York City, November 2009 Stephen Hirtenstein is editor of the Ibn 'Arabi Society Journal. He studied at the Beshara School in Scotland, and is co-founder of Anqa Publishing. His publications include a biography of Ibn 'Arabi, "The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn 'Arabi" (1999), a translation with Pablo Beneito of Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad as "The Seven Days of the Heart" (2000) and with Martin Notcutt of Ibn 'Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar as "Divine Sayings" (2005). He is currently working on a translation of some of Ibn 'Arabi's shorter texts. 1042 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT 42:07 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence, Heart of Compassion, Ka'ba, heart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mohamed Haj Yousef Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion - an Ibn Arabi Conference, presented by the Ibn Arabi Society and the Open Center, New York City, November 2009 After graduating from Aleppo University (Syria) in 1990, he did a Masters degree in Physics at Cambridge University. After teaching Physics for several years in the UAE, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in 2005. The subject of his research was "The Concept of Time in Ibn 'Arabi's Cosmology". A book based on this research, called Ibn 'Arabi - Time and Cosmology was published by Routledge in 2007. He has written other books related to Ibn 'Arabi including Shams-al-Magreb (in Arabic) which contains a detailed biography of Ibn 'Arabi. In addition he founded and runs the website www.ibnalarabi.com. Currently he is teaching at the United Arab Emirates University. 1043 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT 34:08 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence, cosmology nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sachiko Murata Islam, Sufism and the Heart of Compassion - an Ibn Arabi Conference, presented by the Ibn Arabi Society and the Open Center, New York City, November 2009 When Chinese Muslims began in the 17th century to write about their ancestral religion in their native language - that is, Chinese - they produced a body of literature that is a synthesis of the Neo-Confucian and Islamic worldviews. On the Islamic side, they drew largely from Sufi teachers in the lineage of Ibn 'Arabi. Sachiko Murata, one of the great specialists of this insufficiently known but fascinating syncretic tradition at the crossroads of two great civilizations, shares her insights about this unique religious culture and how two such seemingly different approaches to life as passionate Sufi mysticism and Confucian discipline can coexist. 1044 Sat, 8 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT 27:29 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Unity of Existence, Confucious, Chinese nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no George Pattison George Pattison: 2010 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Spiritual and the Material Prof. George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University and has published a number of books on modern philosophy of religion. His two forthcoming books are God and Being: An Enquiry (OUP, September 2010) and a translation of Kierkegaard's Devotional Writings: Gift, Creation, Love (Harper, Fall 2010). 1045 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT 45:05 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Islam, Kierkegaard nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ringu Tulku Rinpoche Ringu Tulku Rinpoche: 2010 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Spiritual and the Material Venerable Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was born in 1952 in Kham, East Tibet. From 1957 to 1959 he fled from Tibet with his family before the Chinese Communist occupation. Since then he has lived in Sikkim, India. Rinpoche has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. He is deeply involved with the exchange of knowledge between religious scholars and scientists, and has a particular concern to participate in dialogues that contribute to mutual understanding, tolerance and peace in the world. 1046 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT 40:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Buddhism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Jane Clark: 2010 UK Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: The Spiritual and the Material Jane Clark is a teacher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying Ibn 'Arabi's thought for nearly thirty years as a student of the Beshara School, and in 2000 took a degree at Oxford in order to read him in the original Arabic. She is particularly interested in the way that his ideas have spread throughout the world, and as Society Librarian has done research work on the early manuscripts. She has written and lectured on Ibn 'Arabi's thought and is most concerned with the universal appeal of his writings, especially as revealed in Fusus al-hikam. 1047 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT 40:39 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Unity of Existence, causation nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson Todd Lawson: 2010 USA Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: Response and Responsibility Todd Lawson, PhD, teaches Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. His interests include the Qur'an and its interpretation over time, Islamic Gnosis, Shi'ism and its later developments such as the Babi and Bahai religions. He has published numerous articles on these and other topics as well as two books, Reason and Inspiration in Islam (London 2005) and The Crucifixion and the Qur'an (Oxford 2009). His book Gnostic Apocalypse in Islam is scheduled to appear later this year. 1048 Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT 39:17 Ibn 'Arabi, Sufism, Joseph, Fusus al-Hikam nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: 2010 USA Ibn Arabi Society Symposium: Response and Responsibility James Morris is Professor of Islamic Studies at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne, and the IIS in Paris and London. Professor Morris has published and lectures widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including the Islamic humanities and poetry, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and the Qur'an. His most recent books include Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation (2004); The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabiis "Meccan Illuminations" (2005); Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit (2007) and Openings: From the Qur'an to the Islamic Humanities (forthcoming). 1049 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT 55:19 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat, Sufism, response, calling nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jaakko Hameen-Anttila Jaakko Hameen-Anttila: 2005 USA Symposium "Time and Non-Time" Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (b. 1963) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Helsinki University (Finland). He has published on Classical Arabic literature and cultural history. His latest book is "The Last Pagans of Iraq. A Study on the Religious, Philosophical, and Literary Aspects of Ibn Wahshiyya's Nabatean Agriculture" 1050 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:00:00 GMT 28:04 Ibn 'Arabi, time, ayan i-thabita nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Angela Jaffray Angela Jaffray: 2011 UK Symposium "Boundless Human Potential" Angela Jaffray holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Her translation of Ibn 'Arabi's al-Ittihad al-kawni (The Universal Tree and the Four Birds) was published by Anqa Publications in 2007. She has recently completed a translation of and commentary on Ibn 'Arabi's Isfar 'an nata'ij al-asfar (Unveiling from the Results of the Voyages), which will be published by Anqa Publications. For the past three years she has lived in Jerusalem. Narrated by Cecilia Twinch. 1051 Fri, 13 May 2011 19:00:00 GMT 55:28 Ibn 'Arabi, himmah, human potential nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Nikos Yiangou Nikos Yiangou: 2011 UK Symposium "Boundless Human Potential" Nick Yiangou holds a Master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology and currently works as an IT manager in the software industry in California. He is a director of the United States branch of the Ibn 'Arabi Society, which promotes the teachings and translations of this great spiritual teacher. He is an ongoing student of the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Scotland, which is based on the principles and teachings of the way of oneness and unification, and previously served on the board of the Beshara Foundation in the US. 1052 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:00:00 GMT 43:58 Ibn 'Arabi, human potential, consciousness, Ken Wilber, spiritual emergence nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Pablo Beneito: 2011 UK Symposium "Boundless Human Potential" Pablo Beneito is currently Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Facultad de Letras, University of Murcia. He has collaborated in the editing and translation of several of Ibn 'Arabi's works: the Mashahid al-asrar; the Kashf al-ma'na, and Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad. He is now working on the critical edition and Spanish translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Kitab al-Mim wa-l-waw wa-l-nun on the Science of Letters, and with Souad Hakim is preparing an edition of his Kitab al-'Abadila, on the spiritual typologies. He has many other publications in this area. 1053 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:00:00 GMT 54:31 Ibn 'Arabi, human potential, spiritual typology nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson Todd Lawson: 2011 UK Symposium "Boundless Human Potential" Todd Lawson, PhD, teaches Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. His interests include the Qur'an and its interpretation over time, Islamic Gnosis, Shi'ism and its later developments such as the Babi and Bahai religions. He has published numerous articles on these and other topics as well as two books, Reason and Inspiration in Islam (London 2005) and The Crucifixion and the Qur'an (Oxford 2009). His book Gnostic Apocalypse in Islam is scheduled to appear later this year. 1054 Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:00:00 GMT 54:56 Ibn 'Arabi, human potential, consciousness, imagination, culture nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells, Nargis Virani WBAI Radio pre-conference interviews with Aracely Brown of the Open Center In 2009, The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and the New York Open Center began the first of a series of conferences together on the great mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. We now present the second conference in this series, this one focusing on the relationship of Ibn 'Arabi's teachings to those of Jalaluddin Rumi, the other giant of Sufi mysticism. Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) are unquestionably the two great pillars of Islamic mysticism. They appeared in the same century, one from the Muslim West, the other from the East, bringing a glorious new vision of human potential and realization that has been a source of inspiration ever since. Their words continue to touch us directly, inviting us to explore the heart as the place of wisdom and love. This first conference dedicated to both these spiritual masters will be a unique opportunity to explore and discuss their teachings with leading scholars in the field. There will be lectures and workshops as well as traditional and original musical/artistic performances. 1055 Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT 49:28 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no David Darling, Nikos Yiangou, Salman Ahmad WBAI Radio pre-conference interviews with Aracely Brown of the Open Center In 2009, The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and the New York Open Center began the first of a series of conferences together on the great mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. We now present the second conference in this series, this one focusing on the relationship of Ibn 'Arabi's teachings to those of Jalaluddin Rumi, the other giant of Sufi mysticism. Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) are unquestionably the two great pillars of Islamic mysticism. They appeared in the same century, one from the Muslim West, the other from the East, bringing a glorious new vision of human potential and realization that has been a source of inspiration ever since. Their words continue to touch us directly, inviting us to explore the heart as the place of wisdom and love. This first conference dedicated to both these spiritual masters will be a unique opportunity to explore and discuss their teachings with leading scholars in the field. There will be lectures and workshops as well as traditional and original musical/artistic performances. 1056 Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT 53:22 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Fatemeh Keshavarz WBAI Radio pre-conference interviews with Majid Ali In 2009, The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and the New York Open Center began the first of a series of conferences together on the great mystic Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. We now present the second conference in this series, this one focusing on the relationship of Ibn 'Arabi's teachings to those of Jalaluddin Rumi, the other giant of Sufi mysticism. Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) are unquestionably the two great pillars of Islamic mysticism. They appeared in the same century, one from the Muslim West, the other from the East, bringing a glorious new vision of human potential and realization that has been a source of inspiration ever since. Their words continue to touch us directly, inviting us to explore the heart as the place of wisdom and love. This first conference dedicated to both these spiritual masters will be a unique opportunity to explore and discuss their teachings with leading scholars in the field. There will be lectures and workshops as well as traditional and original musical/artistic performances. 1057 Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT 26:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World James W. Morris, PhD, Professor at Boston College and former Chair of Islamic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter has also taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at many universities, including Princeton, Oberlin, and the Sorbonne. His many books include: Knowing the Spirit ; The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations'; Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation ; and Ibn 'Arabi: The Meccan Revelations. 1058 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT 21:38 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, realization nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ahmed Eissawi and Aaron Cass Ahmed Eissawi and Aaron Cass: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Ahmed Eissawi, a noted, widely published Sufi poet and former Arabic language instructor at Ain Shams University in Cairo, is: on the faculty of the Foreign Languages Program at the U.N. (since 1991); an adjunct instructor in the Foreign Languages and Translation Department at NYU; founder and director of the Arabic Language Institute in NY; and a major figure in Arab-American culture and print and televised media. Aaron Cass is an actor, musician, composer and co-founder of the Vastearth Orchestra with whom he has produced two albums of classical Middle Eastern poetry set to music, "Green Bird" and "A Garden Amidst the Flames." The music composed is based on and inspired by the readings from Ibn 'Arabi. The group performs nationally in the UK. 1059 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMT 24:07 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Fatemeh Keshavarz Fatemeh Keshavarz: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Fatemeh Keshavarz, an Iranian academic, writer and literary figure, is professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her publications include Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran and Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran, and Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Her interview in 2007 on American Public Radio, Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, won the Peabody Award. 1060 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:00:00 GMT 27:01 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mahmud Erol Kilic Mahmud Erol Kilic: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Mahmud Erol Kilic, PhD, a graduate of the University of Istanbul, did postgraduate studies and taught at the Department of Islamic Philosophy at Marmara University where he published his MA thesis, Hermes and Hermetic Sciences According to Muslim Thinkers and completed his PhD thesis, Ibn 'Arabi's Ontology (2010). Professor Kilic has contributed many articles to journals and encyclopedias and attended many international conferences on Sufism and inter-religious dialogues. His recent book, Sufi and Poetry: Poetics of Ottoman Sufi Poetry, was chosen as the book of the year by the Association of Turkish Writers. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society in Oxford. 1061 Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT 47:19 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Ottoman nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Fatemeh Keshavarz Fatemeh Keshavarz: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Fatemeh Keshavarz, an Iranian academic, writer and literary figure, is professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her publications include Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran and Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran, and Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Her interview in 2007 on American Public Radio, Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, won the Peabody Award. 1062 Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:00:00 GMT 35:13 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Divan, Mathnawi, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells Michael Sells: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Ibn 'Arabi's erotic love poetry emerges from within the Arabic lyrical tradition. The named beloved in the poems is Nizam, a girl from Isfahan, who has been called Ibn 'Arabi's Beatrice. Michael Sells, who writes about and translates Ibn 'Arabi's love poetry, will discuss how the Nizam poems intimate a cultural romance between the Arabic and Persian literary, mystical and cultural worlds in the Middle Ages. 1063 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:00:00 GMT 20:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Nizam, love poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Pablo Beneito: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Ibn 'Arabi often refers to God as the "One Multiple" (al-Wahid al-kathir). Human beings, created in God's image, may thus also be viewed as each containing a "multiple oneness," an "inner spiritual community" of various divine attributes. In this lecture Professor Beneito will explore this spiritual diversity in each of us by drawing from Ibn 'Arabi's "Book of the Servants of God" (K. al-'Abadila) and its 117 chapters that describe 117 different aspects of this inner community and how, taken all together, these describe the perfect human being who has integrated this multiplicity of attributes into an essential unity. 1064 Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT 31:51 Ibn 'Arabi, Kitab al Abadila, One Multiple nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Michael Sells, James Morris, Mahmud Kilic, Stephen Hirtenstein, Cecilia Twinch, Nargis Virani. Moderated by Nikos Yiangou Panel Discussion: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Panel discussion with all speakers, with questions submitted by the audience. 1065 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT 50:53 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, New York nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Coleman Barks and David Darling Musical Concert: Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Conference 2011: Teachings for the Modern World Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the best-selling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. His most recent books are Rumi: The Big Red Book and a collection of his own personal poetry, Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems. David Darling is a classically trained cellist who has taught and served as orchestra conductor and faculty cellist at Western Kentucky University. In 1969, he joined the Paul Winter Consort, whose sound blended jazz with Brazilian, African, Indian and other world music. Since he left the Consort in 1978, he has dedicated himself to a solo performing and recording career, and to teaching music and improvisation. In 2010, David won the Grammy Award for his album Prayer for Compassion. 1066 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:00:00 GMT 46:42 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, New York, Coleman Barks, David Darling, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ann Coxon Annual UK AGM: Guest Speaker Dr. Ann Coxon has been associated with the Society for many years and was the Fellows' Representative in 2005. She had an international childhood exposed to many religious faiths, and was educated in convent schools. She is a respected Consultant Physician and Neurologist, in full time Medical Practice in London at the age of 70. She says "she is still looking for the relationship between Medicine and Healing". As a child she realised that religion does not necessarily result in goodness, but that did not deter her from the search for a spiritual path. She is due to go on Hajj for the second time; the first time she was one of the pilgrims from the UK being followed by television. Ann describes herself as being an "unconventional Muslim" and believes "each person seeks and finds their own spiritual path". 1067 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:00 GMT 22:20 Ibn 'Arabi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice James W. Morris, PhD, Professor at Boston College and former Chair of Islamic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter has also taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at many universities, including Princeton, Oberlin, and the Sorbonne. His many books include: Knowing the Spirit ; The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations'; Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation ; and Ibn 'Arabi: The Meccan Revelations. 1070 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:00:00 GMT 50:57 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual practice nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Alison Yiangou Alison Yiangou: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Alison Yiangou read physics and psychology at Bristol and Oxford and then trained in business management and human relations before joining her husband to found Yiangou Architects in 1981. A long-time student of the Beshara School and member of the Ibn 'Arabi Society, she has lectured internationally and has published in the Society's Journal. She recently helped establish the "Self-Knowledge and Global Responsibility" Journal 1071 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:00:00 GMT 50:16 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual practice, Mindfulness nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cemalnur Sargut Cemalnur Sargut: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Cemalnur Sargut received her BSc in Chemical Engineering from the State Academy of Architecture and Engineering in 1974 and taught Chemistry to high school students in Istanbul for 20 years. For the last 25 years, she has been carrying out research and studies on Ahmad alRifai,Kenan Rifai and Rumi as well as Ibn 'Arabi, Niyazi Misri, Shibli, Qunawi and Jilli. She is President of the Turkish Women's Cultural Association (TURKKAD), Istanbul 1072 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:00:00 GMT 48:32 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual practice, tasavvuf, tasawwuf, Rumi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Geoffroy Eric Geoffroy: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Eric Geoffroy is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Strasbourg. He also teaches at the Open University of Catalonia and at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He is a specialist in the study of Sufism and sanctity in Islam 1073 Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:00:00 GMT 46:17 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual practice, tahqiq nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Samir Mahmoud Samir Mahmoud: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Samir Mahmoud is currently the Agha Khan Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He recently submitted his doctoral dissertation on Ibn 'Arabi at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge 1074 Fri, 5 Oct 2012 19:00:00 GMT 47:30 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual practice, prayer, salat nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dot Clark Dot Clark: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practic Dot Clark is an experienced PersonCentred psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. Her study relates the Metaphysics of Unity of Ibn 'Arabi to psychotherapy. 1075 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:00:00 GMT 28:59 Psychotherapy, Ibn 'Arabi, person-centered approach, Beshara, Education, Spiritual Education nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mohammed Rustom Mohammed Rustom: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Mohammed Rustom is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra, and the main editor of an anthology of William Chittick's writings entitiled In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought. 1076 Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:00:00 GMT 50:08 Ibn 'Arabi, Mulla Sadra nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Wahid Amin Wahid Amin: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2012: Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice Wahid Amin is a D Phil candidate at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the development of post-Avicennan philosohy in the 13th Century with a special focus on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the school of Maragha philosophers 1077 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:00:00 GMT 27:17 Ibn 'Arabi, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William Chittick William Chittick: US Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference 2013: Being Fully Human William Chitick is Professor of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University and has published extensively on both Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi. His most recent books are In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought and Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God 1078 Sun, 5 May 2013 19:00:00 GMT 52:59 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Carl Ernst Carl Ernst: US Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference 2013: Being Fully Human Carl Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. He is the William P. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent publications are How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations and Islamophobia in America. 1079 Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:00:00 GMT 41:26 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Hindu nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson Todd Lawson: US Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference 2013: Being Fully Human Todd Lawson is Associate Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses on the Qur'an, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and related topics. His most recent book is Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam. He is now writing a book on the Qur'an as sacred epic. 1080 Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:00:00 GMT 30:30 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Qur'an nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Nargis Virani Nargis Virani: US Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference 2013: Being Fully Human Nargis Virani is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The New School in New York City. She has a PhD from Harvard University. Her research explores intersections between The Qur'an and Literatures originating in Muslim milieu. She has just completed two books on Rumi's multilingual poetry: I am the Nightingale of the Merciful: Translation of Rumi's Multilingual Poems with an Introductory Essay, and Keeping God's Secrets: Multilinguality and Mystical Discourse 1081 Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:00:00 GMT 40:46 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Mathnawi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Olga Louchakova-Schwartz Olga Louchakova-Schwartz: US Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference 2013: Being Fully Human Olga Louchakova-Schwartz is Professor of Psychology and Comparative Religion at Sofia University and spiritual teacher in the traditions of Advaita Vedanta, Kindalini, Yoga and Prayer of the Heart. Her numerous publications cover a broad range of topics including autoimmune diseases of the nervous system, psychosomatic mysticism and non-dual consciousness 1082 Sun, 1 Sep 2013 19:00:00 GMT 40:08 Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Jane Clark: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Jane Clark is a teacher and independent scholar who has been studying Ibn 'Arabi for more than thirty years. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, working particularly on the Society's archiving project. Her recent publications include "Establishing Ibn 'Arabi's Heritage" (JMIAS 2013) and "Towards a Biography of Sadr al-diin al-Qunawi" (JMIAS 2011) 1083 Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:00:00 GMT 48:45 Ibn 'Arabi, Beauty, Tarjuman al-ashwaq nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Georg Bossong Georg Bossong: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Prof. Georg Bossong has been full professor of Romance philology (especially Ibero-Romance linguistics) at the University of Zurich since 1994, and visiting professor at many other universities. Some of his published articles can be downloaded from his web page at the University of Zurich. He is currently preparing a translation of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq into German 1084 Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:00:00 GMT 51:53 Ibn 'Arabi, Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, Beauty, Poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cyrus Ali Zargar Cyrus Ali Zargar: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Dr Cyrus Ali Zargar is Assistant Professor in Religion at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, in the USA. He is interested in using the study of literature in Persian and Arabic, especially lyric poetry, to explore Sufism and Shi'i mysticism. He recently published Sufi Aesthetics, which explores the spiritual writings and poetry of Ibn al-'Arabi and Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi (d. 1289) 1085 Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:00:00 GMT 40:44 Ibn 'Arabi, Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi, Beauty, Poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Omer Colakoglu Omer Colakoglu: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Omer Colakoglu teaches English at a school in Istanbul, and continues to work as a translator between Turkish and English. He has translated 14 books (two of them into English, the others into Turkish), and hundreds of articles. He is part-way through an MA program in Fatih University's School of Divinity 1086 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:00:00 GMT 31:49 Ibn 'Arabi, Gabriel, Muhammad nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Kazuyo Murata Kazuyo Murata: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Dr. Kazuyo Murata is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at King's College London. Her ongoing work includes a study of the so-called jamal-parasti ("adoration of beauty") in the history of Sufism, also an investigation of the Quran commentary by Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi, with a particular attention to his understanding of prophets. 1087 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:00:00 GMT 18:57 Ibn 'Arabi, Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi, beauty nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Yafiah Katherine Randall Yafiah Katherine Randall: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2013: Mystical Perception & Beauty Yafiah Katherine Randall is a doctoral student in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. Her thesis investigates Sufism among Israeli Jews and Muslims in Israel and explores its potential contribution to reconciliation and conflict transformation 1088 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:00:00 GMT 23:03 Ibn 'Arabi, Jews, Muslims, Jerusalem, beauty nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Stephen Hirtenstein: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Jesus & Mary - A Mystical Perpective Stephen Hirtenstein has been editor of the Society's Journal for 30 years. He is co-founder and director of Anqa Publishing and author of The Unlimited Mercifier, a spiritual biography of Ibn 'Arabi. He has translated the Mishkat al-Anwar, Ibn 'Arabi's collection of hadith qudsi, and three of Ibn 'Arabi's shorter treatises including The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation (2008). He has lectured around the world and leads courses at the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. He was awarded the first Tarjuman Prize by MIAS-Latina in 2012 (along with Maurice Gloton) 1089 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:00:00 GMT 51:45 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jaume Flaquer Jaume Flaquer: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Jesus & Mary - A Mystical Perpective Jaume Flaquer is a Jesuit priest and Professor of Interreligious Dialogue in the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the Sorbonne; his thesis was on Jesus according to the Sufi mystic Ibn 'Arabi. Publications include Christianity and Fundamentalism (1997) and Travelling Lives (2007). He gave a paper at the Second International Symposium of the MIAS-Latina in 2013 on The Spiritual Qualities of Jesus according to Ibn 'Arabi. 1090 Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:00:00 GMT 51:56 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells Michael Sells: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi Michael Sells is Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago. He teaches courses on the Qur'an, Islamic love poetry, comparative mystical literature, Arabic Sufi poetry, Arabic religious texts, and Ibn 'Arabi. His publications include: Approaching the Quran: the Early Revelations (2007) and Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994). He is also well-known for his translations of Arabic poetry including Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (1989) and Stations of Desire - Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi And New Poems (2000) 1091 Tue, 17 Nov 2014 19:00:00 GMT 30:51 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells and John Mercer Michael Sells and John Mercer: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi Michael Sells is Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago. He teaches courses on the Qur'an, Islamic love poetry, comparative mystical literature, Arabic Sufi poetry, Arabic religious texts, and Ibn 'Arabi. His publications include: Approaching the Quran: the Early Revelations (2007) and Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994). He is also well-known for his translations of Arabic poetry including Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (1989) and Stations of Desire - Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi And New Poems (2000). John Mercer is an actor and writer, and formerly the Secretary of the Ibn 'Arabi Society and a founding member 1092 Thu, 4 Dec 2014 19:00:00 GMT 13:09 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus, Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Zachary Markwith Zachary Markwith: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi Zachary Markwith is a doctoral student and instructor at the Graduate Theological Union where he specializes in early Islamic spirituality and comparative religious studies. He is the author of One God, Many Prophets: the Universal Wisdom of Islam, and is writing his dissertation on sanctity in the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. 1093 Thu, 27 Dec 2014 19:00:00 GMT 36:24 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Muhammed Rustom Muhammed Rustom: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi MOHAMMED RUSTOM is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra and Assistant Editor of The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary (Editor-in-Chief, Seyyed Hossein Nasr). 1094 Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:00:00 GMT 28:02 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Maria Dakake Maria Dakake: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi MARIA DAKAKE, researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi'ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She has just completed work on a major colloaborative project to produce the first HarperCollins Study Quran, a verse-by-verse commentary on the Quranic text 1095 Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:00:00 GMT 38:39 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus, Mary nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cyrus Ali Zargar Cyrus Ali Zargar: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2014: Symbols of Transformation - Jesus & Mary in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi CYRUS ALI ZARGAR is an associate professor of religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. His book, Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi, was published in 2011 by the University of South Carolina Press. 1096 Fri, 3 Apr 2015 19:00:00 GMT 38:38 Ibn 'Arabi, Jesus, Mary nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Robert Darr Robert Darr: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Robert Abdul Hayy Darr has been a student of the spiritual culture of Islam for 45 years. In the late 1960s, he studied North Indian classical music at the Ali Akbar Khan School of Music in California. By the early 1980s, Darr began studying Persian literature where he first encountered the teachings of Ibn 'Arabi in the works of Abdurrahman Jami of Herat. This began a life-long interest in the Shaykh's profound teachings. In 1987, Darr met Afghanistan's poet laureate in exile, Ustad Khalilullah Khalili and this friendship led to his English translation of the poet's quatrains in 1989. From 1988-2007, Darr was tutored in Persian miniature painting by Ustad Homayon Etemadi, Afghanistan's last court painter and royal librarian. Darr was the disciple of the Afghan Sufi poet Raz Mohammed Zaray from 1992 until the poet's death in 2010. 1097 Sun, 31 May 2015 19:00:00 GMT 39:19 Ibn 'Arabi, embodiment nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cecilia Twinch Cecilia Twinch: UK Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Cecilia Twinch is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Oxford. Besides working as a teacher, translator and editor, she has written numerous articles and has lectured on Ibn 'Arabi and mysticism worldwide. She has studied at Cambridge University and the Beshara School. Her publications include an English translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries and a new translation of Know yourself: An explanation of the oneness of being (Ibn 'Arabi/Balyani). 1098 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:00:00 GMT 42:36 Ibn 'Arabi, repose nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William C. Chittick William C. Chittick: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World William C. Chittick is professor of religious studies at Stony Brook University. He is author and translator of many books and articles on Sufism and Islamic philosophy, the most recent of which are Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God and Unveiling the Mysteries 1099 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:00:00 GMT 41:38 Ibn 'Arabi, intellectual tradition, mind, heart nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Zahra' Langhi and Todd Lawson USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Zahra' Langhi is a researcher in Islamic history, Sufism, metaphysics, and female spirituality in comparative religions. She is also the co-founder of of the Libyan Women's Platform for Peace, and is a member of the Libyan National Dialogue. Todd Lawson has published widely on Qur'an commentary, the Qur'an as literature, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and the Babi and Bahai traditions. His book on Jesus in Islamic thought, The Crucifixion and the Qur'an was published in 2009, his Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam in 2011 1100 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:00:00 GMT 5:46 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, poetry nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James W. Morris James W. Morris: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World James W. Morris, Ph.D., currently teaches Islamic studies at Boston College; he lectures widely on Sufism, the Islamic humanities, Islamic philosophy, the Qur'an, Shiite thought, and cinema and spiritual teaching. His many books include: The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Meccan Illuminations'; and the forthcoming Approaching Ibn 'Arabi: Foundations, Contexts, Interpretations 1101 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:00:00 GMT 42:24 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, inspiration, discernment, James Morris nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Zahra' Langhi Zahra' Langhi: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Zahra' Langhi is a researcher in Islamic history, Sufism, metaphysics, and female spirituality in comparative religions. She has an MA from the American University in Cairo on Sitt 'Ajam's Commentary of Ibn Arabi's Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries and the Rising of the Divine Lights. She is also the co-founder of of the Libyan Women's Platform for Peace, a socio-political movement which aims at peace building, inclusivity and gender equality. She is a member of the Libyan National Dialogue and has taken part in the peace talks. Her MA thesis on Sitt 'Ajam, A Muslim Woman Gnostic of the Middle Ages, is to be published by Fons Vitae. 1102 Fri, 8 Jan 2016 19:00:00 GMT 31:34 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, compassion, peace nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson Todd Lawson: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Todd Lawson is emeritus professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto where he taught for 25 years. He has published widely on Qur'an commentary (tafsir) the Qur'an as literature, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and the Babi and Bahai traditions. His book on Jesus in Islamic thought, The Crucifixion and the Qur'an was published in 2009 (Oneworld), his Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam in 2011 (Routledge). The article, "Qur'an and Epic" appeared recently in The Journal of Qur'anic Studies (2014: 16.1). This and other of his publications are available at www.toddlawson.ca. He is now writing a book on the Qur'an as sacred epic. He lives in Montreal 1103 Sat, 6 Feb 2016 19:00:00 GMT 41:42 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, friendship, waliya nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pierre Lory Pierre Lory: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Pierre Lory pursued his studies in political science and in Arabic literature in Paris. He moved to the Middle East, where he lived in Lebanon and Syria while completing advanced coursework in Arabic. He decided to focus his research on the history of Islamic spirituality and Sufism. He earned a Masters on mystical exegesis in the Koran, and a PhD on Arabic alchemical texts (1981). He then pursued further post-graduate work in Islamic Studies, receiving a "Doctorat d'état". He became Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) in 1991. His participation in international conferences, panels, and research groups frequently takes him to the Middle East, North Africa, Iran. He was also director of the department of Arabic studies at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient, in Damascus, from 2007 to 2011. He has published several books and many articles on Sufism, Arabic alchemy, Islamic esotericism. 1104 Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:00:00 GMT 41:42 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, animals, ecology, perfect man nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sa'diyya Shaikh Sa'diyya Shaikh: USA Ibn 'Arabi Conference 2015: A Living Legacy - Ibn 'Arabi in Today's World Sa'diyya Shaikh teaches at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has an interest in Sufism and its implications for Islamic feminism and feminist theory. She teaches courses in religion, gender, Islamic mysticism and the psychology of religion. Her book "Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender and Sexuality" is published by the UNC. 1105 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:00:00 GMT 35:09 Ibn 'Arabi, living legacy, gender, feminism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson Todd Lawson: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2016: Ibn 'Arabi: Light and Knowledge Todd Lawson is emeritus professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto where he taught for 25 years. He has published widely on Qur'an commentary (tafsir) the Qur'an as literature, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and the Babi and Bahai traditions. His book on Jesus in Islamic thought, The Crucifixion and the Qur'an was published in 2009 (Oneworld), his Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam in 2011 (Routledge). He is now writing a book on the Qur'an as sacred epic. He lives in Montreal. 1107 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:00:00 GMT 48:03 Ibn 'Arabi, water, light, knowledge nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sara Sviri Sara Sviri: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2016: Ibn 'Arabi: Light and Knowledge Sara Sviri has since 2002 been a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Arabic and the Department of Comparative Religions at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously she taught at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London and at the University of Oxford. She retired from academic teaching in 2012 and has since been engaged in lecturing and teaching on Sufism outside of academia, in Israel and elsewhere. Her fields of study are Islamic mysticism, mystical philosophy and psychology, comparative and phenomenological aspects of Islam, the formative period of Islamic mysticism, and related topics. Papers on these topics have been published in many academic publications and can be viewed on www.academia.edu. Her book The Taste of Hidden Things: Images on the Sufi Path was published in 1997 in the USA. In 2008, Tel-Aviv University Press published her extensive Sufi Anthology in Hebrew. 1108 Wed, 3 Aug 2016 19:00:00 GMT 45:39 Ibn 'Arabi, identity light, knowledge nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Ahmad Sukkar Ahmad Sukkar: UK Ibn 'Arabi Society Conference 2016: Ibn 'Arabi: Light and Knowledge Ahmad Sukkar has recently completed the Imam Bukhari Visiting Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies with a project about the intellectual history of Islam, focusing on the relationship between Islamic philosophy and mysticism. He holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is currently preparing his doctoral thesis for publication as a monograph on architectural humanities, along with another monograph on human reality. In collaboration with Professor Samer Akkach (University of Adelaide), he is working towards publishing a critical edition of early modern Arabic text on human reality upon which his doctorate was based. His publications in English include 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi of Damascus (d. 1143/1731) and the Mawlawi Sufi Tradition which appears in the Mawlana Rumi Review (2014) and can be downloaded from www.academia.edu/6413580. 1109 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:00:00 GMT 40:34 Ibn 'Arabi, identity light, knowledge nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Eric Winkel: US Ibn 'Arabi Society Lecture Series 2016 Dr Eric Winkel (Shu'ayb) has studied Ibn 'Arabi for three decades and has spent the last four years dedicated to producing the first translation of the 10,000 page Futuhat al-Makkiyah of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. The first two of the six sections have been published as pre-prints for feedback and correction, covering the sixteen journeys (books) in 4,448 pages. The work is based on the critical edition of Abd al-Aziz Sultan Mansoub, in Sana'a, who has generously guided this translator. 1110 Fri, 6 Oct 2016 19:00:00 GMT 02:06:40 Ibn 'Arabi, Futuhat al-Makkiyah love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Salman Bashier Salman Bashier: Uk Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Dr. Salman Bashier is an independent researcher who obtained his doctorate from the University of Utah. His PhD was published in 2004 under the title 'Ibn al-'Arabi's Barzakh: the Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World'. He was formerly a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a Polonsky Fellow. He is the author of several articles on Islamic mystical and philosophical thought in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. His book, 'The Story of Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Others on the Limit between Naturalism and Traditionalism' was published in 2012, and his book (in Arabic) 'A Window On the Unseen: Between Ibn al-'Arabi and Averroes, On Imagination, Conjunction, and Knowledge of the Self' was published in December 2016. 1111 Thu, 25 May 2017 19:00:00 GMT 37:43 Ibn 'Arabi, Philosophy, Ibn Rushd, Averroes nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Maria De Cillis Maria De Cillis: Uk Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Dr. Maria De Cillis is a Research Associate and the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She received an MA degree in Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2004. She continued her PhD studies at the same University, completing it in October 2010. She is the author of 'Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought. Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi' (London/New York, 2014). She is among the editors of 'L'esoterisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements / Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments' (Turnhout, 2016), and her ongoing projects include the monograph 'Decree and Salvation: al-Kirmani's Ismaili Perspective' (forthcoming, 2017). 1112 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:00:00 GMT 38:51 Ibn 'Arabi, Philosophy, Free Will, Predestination nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Geoffroy Eric Geoffroy: Uk Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Professor Eric Geoffroy is an expert in Islamic thought and spirituality, he teaches Islamic studies at the University of Strasbourg, and other centres. He is specialist of Sufism and also works on issues of spirituality in the modern world (globalization, ecology). He is president of the International Foundation 'Sufi Consciousness'. He is a member of several international research groups, such as Kalam Research and Media (KRM), and acts as scientific advisor and editorial on Islam (Fondapol, The notebooks of Islam, Religions / Adyan ...). He is a columnist in the magazine Ultreia, and writes regularly for 'Le Monde des Religions'. He wrote twenty articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2 and 3, and is the author of over a dozen books 1113 Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:00:00 GMT 48:39 Ibn 'Arabi, Philosophy, reason, supra-reason nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Husam al-Mallak Husam al-Mallak: Uk Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Dr Husam al-Mallak is a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS where he lectures on 'Modern Trends in Islam'. He completed his PhD thesis in January 2016, under Dr Cosimo Zene, Dr J.P. Hartung and Dr Nasr Abu Zayd (d. 2010), on how the mystical thought of Ibn al-'Arabi can be considered as an Islamic overcoming of Nietzschean nihilism. His MA dissertation at Birkbeck was 'Beyond Postmodernism and the Crisis of Truth: Re-Reading Ibn Al-'Arabi's Qur'anic Hermeneutics' and he has given public lectures on this subject at The Islamic College, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He has published book reviews in the Journal for Shi'a Islamic Studies and has forthcoming articles in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 1114 Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:00:00 GMT 37:54 Ibn 'Arabi, Philosophy, post-modernism, postmodern nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Hany Ibrahim Hany Ibrahim: USA Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Hany Ibrahim is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Calgary. His teaching and research interests include Quranic exegesis, hadith, Sufism, Islamic art and architecture. His academic research is on Ibn 'Arabi and the metaphysics of love in The Meccan Openings. He is currently authoring a book entitled, Hallaj: In the Ocean of Oneness (forthcoming, Fall 2018) 1115 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:00:00 GMT 32:30 Ibn 'Arabi, Vast Earth, consciousness, ecology, love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Angela Jaffray Angela Jaffray: USA Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Angela Jaffray is an independent scholar, specializing in the translation of and commentary on the short works of Ibn 'Arabi. Her translation of Ibn 'Arabi's al-Ittiad al-kawni (The Universal Tree and the Four Birds) was published by Anqa Publications in 2007. Her most recent translation and commentary of Ibn 'Arabī's Isfar 'an nata'ij al-asfār (The Secrets of Voyaging), was published by Anqa Publications in 2015 1116 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:00:00 GMT 30:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Vast Earth, consciousness, ecology nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Eric Winkel: USA Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Eric Winkel has studied Ibn 'Arabi's Futuhat al-Makkiyah for twenty-five years and is now in the midst of an eleven-year project to produce the first complete translation of this work. While Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies in Malaysia, Dr. Winkel explored how the concepts of the "new sciences" opened obscure and difficult passages of the Futuhat al-Makkiyah 1117 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:00:00 GMT 37:55 Ibn 'Arabi, Vast Earth, consciousness, ecology, new science, Futuhat al-Makkiyah nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Atif Khalil Atif Khalil: USA Ibn 'Arabi Society Symposium 2017 Atif Khalil is an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge's Department of Religious Studies where he teaches courses on Islamic theology, mysticism, art and world religions. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Repentance and the Return to God in Early Sufism (SUNY, 2018). Last year, he was the Ken'an Rifai Distinguished Professorship of Islamic Studies at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University in China 1118 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:00:00 GMT 32:29 Ibn 'Arabi, Vast Earth, consciousness, ecology, gratitude nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Heba Youssry Heba Youssry: MIAS Latina Symposium 2017 Heba Youssry is currently the Director of Manor House International School in Egypt. She holds a double BA in the fields of Business Administration and Philosophy and a double MA in Arabic Literature and Philosophy all of which were attained from the American University in Cairo. She formerly held the position of Country Director for an NGO called Seeds of Peace, where she worked on establishing communication links between teenagers in countries impacted by the Middle Eastern conflict. Also, she worked as a freelance literary critic for Egypt Independent, an English language newspaper. 1119 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:00:00 GMT 40:35 Ibn 'Arabi, women, sex, sexual relations nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Stephen Hirtenstein: UK Oxford Symposium 2018 Stephen Hirtenstein has been editor of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society since its inception in 1982, and is a co-founder of Anqa Publishing. He read History at King's College, Cambridge, and then studied at the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Gloucestershire and Scotland. After a teaching career, he began writing and giving talks on Ibn 'Arabi's thought at conferences across the world. In addition to lecturing and writing, he organises and leads tours in the footsteps of Ibn 'Arabi. He currently works as a Senior Editor for the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and is a Short courses tutor in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. His publications include The Unlimited Mercifier – The spiritual life and thought of Ibn 'Arabi (1999), The Seven Days of the Heart Prayers for the nights and days of the week – Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad al-usbu (2000), Divine Sayings – 101 Hadith Qudsi – The Mishkat al-Anwar of Ibn 'Arabi (2004), and most recently The Alchemy of Human Happiness – Chapter 167 of Ibn 'Arabi's Meccan Illuminations – Fi ma'rifat kimiya' al-sa'ada (2017) 1120 Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:00:00 GMT 44:26 Ibn 'Arabi, alchemy, human existence, ascension nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michael Sells Michael Sells: UK Oxford Symposium 2018 Michael Sells is the professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His publications on Arabic poetry, Sufism, and mystical language include Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (1989); Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994); Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn ʿArabī and New Poems (2000); Early Islamic Mysticism (1996); and the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, al-Andalus (2000, which he coedited with Maria Rosa Menocal and Raymond Scheindlin). His essay "Love", which compares differing configurations of the "religion of love" in Arabic love poetry and his translation of the Nuniyya, a poem by the Andalusian poet of courtly love Ibn Zaydun, appear in the same al-Andalus volume. Qur'anic Studies Today, which he coedited with Angelika Neuwirth and to which he contributed an essay on the Moses story in Sura 20, appeared in 2015. He is currently working on a complete bi-lingual edition and translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Tarjuman al-Ashwaq. 1121 Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:00:00 GMT 55:54 Ibn 'Arabi, love, poetry, Tarjuman nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stefan Sperl Stefan Sperl: UK Oxford Symposium 2018 Stefan Sperl is Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, at SOAS University of London. He was born in Stuttgart and brought up in Luxembourg. He studied Arabic at Oxford and the American University in Cairo and did his postgraduate research at SOAS, London. In 1978 he joined UNHCR and held several assignments in the Middle East and Geneva. He returned to SOAS 1988. His publications include Mannerism in Arabic Poetry (1989), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (1996, with Christopher Shackle), as well as numerous articles on Arabic, Islamic and Refugee Studies. In 2005 he embarked on a research project with Ahmed Moustafa which resulted in their joint publication The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship (2014). It won the Iran World Award for the Book of the Year in 2016. He was co-organiser of the 2017 MIAS symposium 'Ibn Arabi and the Philosophers' at SOAS and in November 2017 organiser of the conference 'Faces of the Infinite, Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe' at the British Academy and SOAS. 1122 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:00:00 GMT 46:24 Ibn 'Arabi, love, poetry, Tarjuman, Arabian, Qur'anic, Plotinian nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Oludamini Ogunnaike Oludamini Ogunnaike: USA Open Center Symposium 2019 Oludamini Ogunnaike is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on African and African Diasporic Religions as well as Islam, Islamic Philosophy, Spirituality, and Art. He holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. Professor Ogunnaike's research examines the philosophical dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa. He is currently working on a book entitled, Sufism and Ifa: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions and maintains a digital archive of West African Sufi poetry. 1123 Fri, 4 Oct 2019 19:00:00 GMT 38:54 Ibn 'Arabi, love, suffering, bewilderment nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Angela Jaffray Angela Jaffray: USA Open Center Symposium 2019 Angela Jaffray (PhD Harvard University) is an independent scholar, specializing in the translation of and commentary on the short works of Ibn 'Arabi. Her translation of Ibn 'Arabi's al-Ittihad al-kawni (The Universal Tree and the Four Birds) was published by Anqa Publications in 2007 and her article "Watered with One Water: Ibn 'Arabi on the One and the Many” appeared in the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society in 2008. Her most recent translation and commentary of Ibn 'Arabi's Isfar 'an nata'ij al-asfar (The Secrets of Voyaging), was published by Anqa Publications in 2015, reprinted in 2016. She divides her time between Jerusalem and Chicago. 1124 Mon, 4 Nov 2019 19:00:00 GMT 36:46 Ibn 'Arabi, love, suffering, alchemy nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no James Morris James Morris: USA Open Center Symposium 2019 James Morris (Boston College) has taught and published widely on Islamic and religious studies over the past 40 years at the Universities of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London, serving recently as visiting professor in Istanbul, Paris, and Jogjakarta. He has lived and studied in regions from Morocco to Indonesia, and he lectures and leads workshops in many countries on Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, the Islamic humanities (poetry, music, and visual arts), the Qur'an and hadith, and esoteric Shiism. Recently he has led interfaith study-abroad programs centering on sacred sites, pilgrimage, sainthood, and related arts and architecture in Turkey and France. His forthcoming books include Openings: From the Qur'an to the Islamic Humanities; Approaching Ibn 'Arabi: Foundations, Contexts, Interpretations; Ostad Elahi's "Demonstration of the Truth"; and "Servants of the All-Merciful": Ibn 'Arabi on Spiritual Practice and Realization. 1125 Sun, 1 Dec 2019 19:00:00 GMT 48:00 Ibn 'Arabi, love, suffering, realization, tahqiq nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Jane Clark: UK Oxford University Symposium 2019 Jane Clark is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, and has workedparticularly on the Society's Archiving Project as well looking after the library. She has been studying Ibn 'Arabi for more than forty years, and is engaged in teaching courses and lecturing on his thought both in the UK (including Oxford University, Temenos Academy) and abroad (including Egypt, Australia, USA), and in research and translation of the akbarian heritage. She has a particular interest in the correlation of Ibn 'Arabī's thought with contemporary issues; she was a co-founder of The Journal of Consciousness Studies, and is currently editor of Beshara Magazine. She organises the MIAS Young Writers Award. 1126 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:00:00 GMT 42:59 Ibn 'Arabi, guidance, counseling, soul, Ruh al-Quds nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Eric Winkel: UK Oxford University Symposium 2019 Eric Winkel is working full-time on a translation of the entire al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah (The Openings Revealed in Makkah) based on the 2011 critical edition of Dr. Abd al-Aziz al-Mansoub, published in the Yemen. While at the Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, in Malaysia, he combined his interest in mathematics and classical Islamic thought to explore the 'new sciences', finding 'unlocking keys' for some of the most obscure concepts in Ibn 'Arabi's work. In 2019 the Pir Press published Volume 1 of the translation (Books 1 and 2). Chapter One of the Futuhat translation can be downloaded in PDF form from the Futuhat Project website http://thefutuhat.com/ 1127 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:00:00 GMT 56:12 Ibn 'Arabi, guidance, counseling, Futuhat, Futuhat al-Makkiyah nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Pablo Beneito: UK Oxford University Symposium 2019 Pablo Beneito is currently Professor of the Translation and Interpretation Department in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Murcia. He has published editions and translations of several works of Ibn 'Arabi including Mashahid al-Asrar - Las contemplaciones de los misterios (with S. Hakim), which was translated into English as Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries together with Cecilia Twinch. He edited and translated into Spanish the Kashf al-ma'na - El secreto de los nombres de Dios, which has also appeared in French. In collaboration with Stephen Hirtenstein he edited and translated Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad al-usbu (Wird) - The Seven Days of the Heart. He is the editor of El Azufre Rojo (Red Sulfur: Journal of Studies on Ibn 'Arabi, which first appeared in 2014). He is a founder member and President of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society-Latina (MIAS- Latina), established in 2011 1128 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:00:00 GMT 50:55 Ibn 'Arabi, guidance, Ka'ba, counseling nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 1. Online talks — Summer 2020 Stephen Hirtenstein has been editor of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society since its inception in 1982, and is a co-founder of Anqa Publishing. He read History at King's College, Cambridge, and then studied at the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Gloucestershire and Scotland. After a teaching career, he began writing and giving talks on Ibn 'Arabi's thought at conferences across the world. In addition to lecturing and writing, he organises and leads tours in the footsteps of Ibn 'Arabi. He currently works as a Senior Editor for the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and is a Short courses tutor in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. His publications include The Unlimited Mercifier – The spiritual life and thought of Ibn 'Arabi (1999), The Seven Days of the Heart Prayers for the nights and days of the week – Ibn 'Arabi's Awrad al-usbu (2000), Divine Sayings – 101 Hadith Qudsi – The Mishkat al-Anwar of Ibn 'Arabi (2004), and most recently The Alchemy of Human Happiness – Chapter 167 of Ibn 'Arabi's Meccan Illuminations – Fi ma'rifat kimiya' al-sa'ada (2017) 1129 Wed, 4 May 2022 19:00:00 GMT 38:52 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 1. Online talks — Summer 2020 Pablo Beneito is currently Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting in the Faculty of Letters, University of Murcia, Spain. He has been studying the works of Ibn Arabi since he chose to do his doctorate in Arabic philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, after which he spent nine years teaching at the University of Seville in the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies. He has also been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris (Ecole Pratique des Hauts Etudes), in Kyoto University (ASAFAS) and in Toledo (Escuela de Traductores). As a specialist in Sufi thought, he has given courses throughout the world, and helped organise more than 14 international conferences. He heads MIAS Latina, an independent organisation affiliated to the Ibn Arabi Society, for speakers of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He has edited and translated (into Spanish) Ibn Arabi's Mashahid al-asrar and Kashf al-ma'na. He is currently working on several of Ibn Arabi's shorter treatises, including Kitab al-Abadilah. Together with Stephen Hirtenstein he translated The Seven Days of the Heart - Ibn ʿArabi's Awrad al-usbu (Wird), and togther with Cecilia Twinch, Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries - Mashahid al-asrar al-qudsiyya. 1130 Wed, 11 May 2022 19:00:00 GMT 39:15 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Carroll Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 1. Online talks — Summer 2020 Jane Carroll is a Senior Research Fellow of the Ibn Arabi Society and is Secretary of the Society in the US. She first studied the works of Ibn Arabi at the Beshara School in Scotland in the 1970s while concurrently studying at the Architectural Association in London with a specific interest in traditional geometry and Islamic architecture. She currently has a design practice in Ojai, California. 1131 Wed, 18 May 2022 19:00:00 GMT 43:28 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 2. Online talks — Summer 2020 Jane Clark is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and has worked particularly on the Society's Archiving Project as well as looking after the library. She has been studying Ibn Arabi for more than forty years, and is engaged in teaching courses and lecturing on his thought both in the UK (including Oxford University and Temenos Academy) and abroad (including Egypt, Australia and the USA), and in research and translation of the Akbarian heritage. She has a particular interest in the correlation of Ibn Arabi's thought with contemporary issues. She organises the MIAS Young Writers Award. Jane Clark was a co-founder of The Journal of Consciousness Studies and is currently editor of the Beshara Magazine. She has presented many courses as part of the program of the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. 1132 Wed, 25 May 2022 19:00:00 GMT 35:43 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 2. Online talks — Summer 2020 At Haverford College (BA), then the University of Pennsylvania (MA), then the University of South Carolina (PhD), Eric Winkel undertook eclectic studies, mostly religion at first, focusing on spiritual matters, then later including political science, and numerous languages to enable study of religious and spiritual texts (Sanskrit, Greek, Coptic, Tamil, Arabic, others, besides French and German). His book "Mysteries of Purity, Ibn al-'Arabî's asrar al-taharah" (Notre Dame, 1995) was Chapter 68 of the Futuhat al-Makkiyya. While Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies in Malaysia, he explored how the concepts of the "new sciences" opened obscure and difficult passages of the Futuhat. Having studied Ibn Arabi's Futuhat al-Makkiyya for over twenty-five years, Eric Winkel is now in the midst of an eleven-year project to produce the first complete translation of this work. 1133 Wed, 1 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT 39:16 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz, Futuhat nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Paolo Urizzi Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 2. Online talks — Summer 2020 Paolo Urizzi is the director of Perennia Verba, Italy. The interest in Perennial Wisdom has led him to deepen the metaphysical doctrines of Vedanta and Sufism, and his research has focused in particular on the notion of the "Seal of Saints". 1134 Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT 33:15 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Samer Akkach Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 3. Online talks — Summer 2020 Dr Samer Akkach is Associate Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He was born and educated in Damascus before moving to Australia to complete his PhD at Sydney University. As an intellectual historian, Samer has devoted over twenty years to the study of Ibn 'Arabi's mystical thought and intellectual legacy, and especially to their later revival by Abd al-Ghana al-Nabulusi. His book Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: an Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas (SUNY 2005), traces the influence of Ibn 'Arabi's thought on the spatial sensibility of premodern Muslim architects. His further titles Abd al-Ghan al-Nabulusi: Islam and the Enlightenment (Oneworld 2007) and Letters of a Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence of Abd al-Ghana al-Nabulusi (Brill 2010) examine the intellectual contributions of this influential and prolific Sufi master who considered Ibn 'Arabi to be his spiritual master and source of inspiration. 1135 Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT 45:34 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Gregory Vandamme Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 3. Online talks — Summer 2020 Gregory Vandamme is a PhD candidate (FNRS-FRESH) working on classical Sufism, with a particular interest in the works of Ibn 'Arabi and his school. His research pays attention on transmission and transformation of doctrines from Early Sufism to Akbarian thought. He is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Louvain, Belgium 1136 Fri, 1 Jul 2022 19:00:00 GMT 36:43 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Rim Feriani Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 3. Online talks — Summer 2020 Rim Feriani is Educational Director at The Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, UK. She had previously lectured in Arabic language at King's College, London and taught Arabic language and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Westminster, London. Prior to her lecturing position, Rim worked as Director of Languages securing a governmental funding for improving the profile of languages at De Le Salle School and Language College. Additionally, from 2014 to 2016, Rim headed the Arabic department at the British School Al Khubairat, in Abu Dhabi. 1137 Wed, 6 Jul 2022 19:00:00 GMT 43:28 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Michele Petrone Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 4. Online talks — Summer 2020 Michele Petrone is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Universite catholique de Louvain 1138 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:00:00 GMT 43:59 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Alexander Knysh Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 4. Online talks — Summer 2020 Alexander Knysh is professor of Islamic Studies and former chair (1998–2004) of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Institute for Oriental Studies (Leningrad Branch) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1986. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in the United States of America and England. His research interests include Islamic mysticism and Islamic theological thought in historical perspective as well as Islam and Islamic movements in local contexts (especially Yemen and the Northern Caucasus). He has numerous publications on these subjects, including Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam (1998). 1139 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:00:00 GMT 37:47 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Gracia Lopez Anguita Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 4. Online talks — Summer 2020 Gracia Lopez Anguita obtained her degree in Arabic Philosophy at the University of Cordoba. In 2005 she joined the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Seville, where she is currently Assistant Professor. Among other publications, her book Ibn 'Arabi y su epoca was published in 2018. 1140 Tue, 9 Aug 2022 19:00:00 GMT 42:34 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cyrus Ali Zargar Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 5. Online talks — Summer 2020 Cyrus Ali Zargar is Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Central Florida. His first book, Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in Ibn ʿArabi and ʿIraqi, was published in 2011 by the University of South Carolina Press. His most recent book, The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, was published in 2017 by Oneworld Press. Zargar's research interests focus on the literature of medieval Sufism in Arabic and Persian. This includes metaphysical, aesthetic, and ethical intersections between Sufism and Islamic philosophy, as well as Sufi ethical treatises, the writings of Ibn Arabi and early adherents to his worldview, Sufism in contemporary cinema, and satire in medieval and modern literature. He is the author of articles in The Muslim World, The Journal of Arabic Literature, and Encyclopædia Iranica. Currently, he is completing a manuscript on the corpus of the 13th-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar, and the manner in which Attar's vision for humanity might comment on contemporary questions in religion. It is titled Religion of Love: Farid al-Din Attar and the Sufi Tradition, to be published by the Islamic Texts Society (Cambridge, UK). 1141 Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:00:00 GMT 38:28 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Carlos Berbil Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 5. Online talks — Summer 2020 Carlos Berbil is the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. 1142 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:00:00 GMT 35:04 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Luca Patrizi Ibn 'Arabi and The Geometry of Reality - Series 5. Online talks — Summer 2020 Luca Patrizi is part of the University of Turin, Italy, and research fellow at Exeter University, UK. 1143 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:00:00 GMT 35:03 Ibn 'Arabi, geometry, Keith Critchlow, Michel Chodkiewicz nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dunja Rašić "Word and Letter, Book and Speech". Online Talks, May 2021 Dunja Rašić (PhD Free University Berlin) is a lecturer at the University of Belgrade. Her academic interests include philosophy of language, Akbarian cosmology and the philosophical and theological thought of the early Islamic Middle Ages. She is currently working on several book projects, including The Devil Within: Jinn Doppelgangers, Mages and the Sages and a critical edition and translation of al-Bosnevī's commentary on pseudo-Ibn ʿArabī's al-Qaṣīda al- tāʾiyya. 1144 Wed, 5 Oct 2022 19:00:00 GMT 40:06 Ibn 'Arabi, word, letter, book, speech nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein "Word and Letter, Book and Speech". Online Talks, May 2021 Stephen Hirtenstein has been editor of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society since its inception in 1982, and is a co-founder of Anqa Publishing. He read History at King's College, Cambridge, and then studied at the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education in Gloucestershire and Scotland. After a teaching career, he began writing and giving talks on Ibn Arabi's thought at conferences across the world. In addition to lecturing and writing, he organises and leads tours "in the footsteps of Ibn Arabi". He currently works as a Senior Editor for the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and lives near Oxford. 1145 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:00:00 GMT 51:59 Ibn 'Arabi, word, letter, book, speech nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Todd Lawson "Word and Letter, Book and Speech". Online Talks, May 2021 Todd Lawson is Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Dept. of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. He has published widely on Quran commentary (tafsir), the Quran as literature, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and the Babi and Bahai traditions. His book Jesus in Islamic thought, The Crucifixion and the Quran was published in 2009 (Oneworld), his Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam in 2011 (Routledge). This and other of his publications are listed at www.toddlawson.ca 1146 Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:00:00 GMT 33:43 Ibn 'Arabi, word, letter, book, speech nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Hina Khalid Al-Mīzān: Justice and Harmony in the Works of Ibn al-'Arabī and the Akbarī Tradition, Summer Series 2021 Hina Khalid has completed an MPhil in Theology at the University of Cambridge. Her work has previously examined the theological discourse of the Muslim mystic and philosopher 'Ibn Arabi, in dialogue with selected aspects of the Buddhist philosophical tradition. Her current research centres on Sufism in the subcontinent, and the distinctive and multi-faceted patterns of Islamic practices as they have been shaped by indigenous cultural and religious forces therein. 1147 Wed, 9 Nov 2022 19:00:00 GMT 45:06 Ibn 'Arabi, justice, harmony, Bodhisattva, wali, saint nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Yousef Casewit Al-Mīzān: Justice and Harmony in the Works of Ibn al-'Arabī and the Akbarī Tradition, Summer Series 2021 Yousef is Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Yale University in 2014. He was formerly a Humanities Research Fellow at New York University, Abu Dhabi, where he completed his award-winning book, The Mystics of al-Andalus. He is currently completing an Arabic edition and full English translation of  'Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani's (d. 1291) commentary on the divine names for the Library of Arabic Literature, NYU Press. Born in Egypt and raised in Morocco, Yousef has traveled throughout the Islamic world, and has studied with Muslim scholars in Morocco, Syria, and Mauritania. 1148 Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:00:00 GMT 42:41 Ibn 'Arabi, justice, Tilimsani nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dr David Torollo, Catherine Boyle, Cecilia Twinch Ibn 'Arabi's Creative Imagination, Part 1 Ibn Arabi's Creative Imagination: Crossing Borders to Discover the Meaning of Being Human. Collaborative presentation between Language Acts and Worldmaking and the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. This event, originally an online seminar via Zoom, explores how Ibn Arabi's creative imagination crosses philosophical, poetic, linguistic and artistic borders, and how his ideas continue to inspire contemporary poetry, film, and artistic expression to this day. Chair Dr David Torollo : Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern Spanish Studies, King's College London. Catherine Boyle: Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking. Cecilia Twinch: Senior Research Fellow of the Ibn Arabi Society, Oxford. 1149 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:00:00 GMT 1:00:15 Ibn 'Arabi, Imagination, Creative Imagination nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dr David Torollo, Rim Feriani, Bharatwaj Iyer, Antonella Leoni, Nükhet Kardam, Ibn 'Arabi's Creative Imagination, Part 2 Ibn Arabi's Creative Imagination: Crossing Borders to Discover the Meaning of Being Human. Collaborative presentation between Language Acts and Worldmaking and the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. This event, originally an online seminar via Zoom, explores how Ibn Arabi's creative imagination crosses philosophical, poetic, linguistic and artistic borders, and how his ideas continue to inspire contemporary poetry, film, and artistic expression to this day. Introduction: David Torollo The Meeting of the Two Seas – Ibn Arabi & Contemporary Literature: Rim Feriani Round Table Introduction: Bharatwaj Iyer (Chair) Artwork: Antonella Leoni Poetry: Nükhet Kardam Poetry Reading: David Torollo 1150 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 19:00:00 GMT 1:11:06 Ibn 'Arabi, Imagination, Creative Imagination nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Hany Ibrahim Hany Ibrahim discusses the importance of Divine love in Ibn 'Arabī's thought Hany Talaat Ibrahim completed his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. He is currently teaching at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University, Canada. He specializes in pre-modern Islamic thought, Arabic Sufi literature, and Islamic art & architecture. 1151 Fri, 6 Jan 2023 19:00:00 GMT 41:05 Ibn 'Arabi, Love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Cecilia Twinch Ibn 'Arabi, receptivity and the idea of the feminine Cecilia Twinch is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Oxford. Besides working as a teacher, translator and editor, she has written numerous articles and has lectured on Ibn 'Arabi and mysticism worldwide. She has studied at Cambridge University and the Beshara School. Her publications include an English translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries and a new translation of Know yourself: An explanation of the oneness of being by Ibn 'Arabi/Balyani 1152 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:00:00 GMT 40:30 Ibn 'Arabi, Divine Feminine, Julian of Norwich nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Eric Winkel Ibn 'Arabi, receptivity and the idea of the feminine At Haverford College (BA), then the University of Pennsylvania (MA), then the University of South Carolina (PhD), Eric Winkel undertook eclectic studies, mostly religion at first, focusing on spiritual matters, then later including political science, and numerous languages to enable study of religious and spiritual texts (Sanskrit, Greek, Coptic, Tamil, Arabic, others, besides French and German). His book "Mysteries of Purity, Ibn al-'Arabî's asrar al-taharah" (Notre Dame, 1995) was Chapter 68 of the Futuhat al-Makkiyya. While Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies in Malaysia, he explored how the concepts of the "new sciences" opened obscure and difficult passages of the Futuhat. Shu'ayb Eric Winkel explains: 'with Ibn Arabi, if one hasn't visualised or seen a picture, imaged in the imagination, of what he is talking about, one hasn't yet understood him. In my work translating and elucidating The Openings Revealed in Makkah, I depend entirely on Divine grace. In this talk we will look at a double door of a temple, or home, and follow Ibn Arabi's insights into and behind the half-door. We will then consider Salma's house and the walls of Salma's house, in a poem, and Ibn Arabi's own poetry around the imagery. We then connect these images to the all-important hadith qudsi: 'The heavens and the Earth are not vastly spacious enough for Me, but the heart of My slave who is someone faithful is.' We contemplate the vista of the heart to prepare ourselves for our own view of the architecture of love, insha'Allah.' Since 2012, Shu'ayb has been translating The Opening Revealed in Makkah, the first continuous translation of and commentary on the Futuhat, envisioned as 19 volumes, published by Pir Press. Parallel to this work, Shu'ayb is collaborating with communities to expand into new directions, including translations of An Illustrated Guide to Ibn Arabi, children's books, poetry, grammars and glossaries for Ibn Arabi, and visual and creative artworks conveying the message of the Futuhat. 1153 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:00:00 GMT 33:24 Ibn 'Arabi, Divine Feminine, divine architecture nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Gracia López Anguita Ibn 'Arabi, receptivity and the idea of the feminine Gracia Lopez Anguita obtained her degree in Arabic Philosophy at the University of Cordoba. In 2005 she joined the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Seville, where she is currently Assistant Professor. Among other publications, her book Ibn 'Arabi y su epoca was published in 2018. 1154 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:00:00 GMT 42:29 Ibn 'Arabi, Divine Feminine, divine writing nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Jane Clark Ibn 'Arabi, receptivity and the idea of the feminine Jane Clark is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and has worked particularly on the Society's Archiving Project as well as looking after the library. She has been studying Ibn Arabi for more than forty years, and is engaged in teaching courses and lecturing on his thought both in the UK (including Oxford University and Temenos Academy) and abroad (including Egypt, Australia and the USA), and in research and translation of the Akbarian heritage. She has a particular interest in the correlation of Ibn Arabi's thought with contemporary issues. She organises the MIAS Young Writers Award. Jane Clark was a co-founder of The Journal of Consciousness Studies and is currently editor of the Beshara Magazine. She has presented many courses as part of the program of the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. 1155 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:00:00 GMT 46:47 Ibn 'Arabi, Divine Feminine, gender nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mukhtar Ali Seminar Series 'Understanding Ibn 'Arabi' Mukhtar Ali (Ph.D) (2007) University of California, Berkeley, is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and ethics, but his areas of interest also include Arabic and Persian literature, Qur'anic studies and comparative religion. He is the author of Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-'Arabi (Routledge, 2021) and The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn al 'Arabi in the Muqaddimat al-Qaysari (Brill, 2020). He has translated some contemporary metaphysical texts, The New Creation (Sage Press, 2018) and The Law of Correspondence (Sage Press, 2021). 1156 Sat, 1 Apr 2023 19:00:00 GMT 45:40 Ibn 'Arabi, Dawud al-Qaysari nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Laila Khalifa Seminar Series 'Understanding Ibn 'Arabi' Laila Khalifa (Ph.D) began her studies in social sciences and history at the University of Jordan in Amman. Later she pursued postgraduate research in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham, UK in 1985. She was awarded her MA in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought at the Sorbonne in 1988. She has subsequently dedicated her research to the study of Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine and received her Ph.D. in 2000, in History and Civilisation at the L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Here, under the supervision of Prof. Michel Chodkiewicz, she completed her dissertation: "Conqurtes, Illuminations, Tassawuf et Prophetie: La Futuwwa chez le Sheikh al- Akbar Muhammad Muhyi a-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240)". (Conquest, Illumination, Sufism and Prophecy: The Futuwwa in Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240.) She continues her research into Ibn 'Arabi's metaphysical doctrine and participates in international symposiums. Laila Khalifa has published books and articles. 1157 Mon, 1 May 2023 19:00:00 GMT 41:00 Ibn 'Arabi, fiqh nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mahmud Erol Kılıç Seminar Series 'Understanding Ibn 'Arabi' Mahmud Erol Kılıç is a Professor of Sufi Studies. His numerous books, articles and translations have focused on Ibn 'Arabi and the Ibn 'Arabi school of thought as well as Sufism in Anatolia. He has been the ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the Republic of Indonesia, and was the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) based in Tehran. Prof. Kılıç currently serves as the Director General of the Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society. 1158 Mon, 8 May 2023 19:00:00 GMT 01:02:09 Ibn 'Arabi, Ahmad Avni Bey nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dunja Rašić Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Online Presentation "Ghouls, ifrits and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies. These also include demonic doubles (qarīn, pl. quranā'): the little-studied and much-feared denizens of the hearts and blood of humans. Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn 'Arabī (d. 1240) wrote on jinn in substantial detail, uncovering the physiognomy, culture and behaviour of this unseen species. Akbarians believed that the good God assigned each human with an evil double. Ibn 'Arabī’s reasoning as to why this was the case mirrors his attempts to expound the problem of evil in Islamic religious philosophy. No other Sufi, Ibn 'Arabī claimed, has ever managed to get to the heart of this matter before him. As well as offering the reader knowledge and safety from evil, Ibn 'Arabī’s writings on jinnealogy tackle the even larger issues of spiritual ascension, predestination and the human relationship to the Divine." Dunja Rašić earned her Ph.D in Islamic Studies at the Free University Berlin. Her primary research field is medieval intellectual history, with a focus on Akbarian cosmology, philosophical Sufism and the Islamic philosophy of language. 1159 Thu, 8 Jun 2023 19:00:00 GMT 32:41 Ibn 'Arabi, jinn nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Oludamini Ogunnaike Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Online Presentation: Hosted by the Abbasi Program, Stanford University Love is mysterious and many splendored—the source of our greatest joys and deepest sorrows; easy to talk and sing about, but impossible to define. "One who defines love has not known it, and one who has not tasted it by drinking it down, has not known it," writes Ibn al-'Arabi. While Rumi is more associated with love in the contemporary imagination, love is equally central to the writings and tradition of the great Andalusian writer, thinker, and spiritual teacher, Ibn Al-'Arabi (d. 1240), known as al-Shaykh al-Akbar (The Greatest Master). Through an examination of his commentaries on two verses of the Qur'an (2:165 and 45:23), and exploration of the paradoxes and seeming contradictions therein, this workshop will explore how love is key to understanding Ibn Al-'Arabi’s vast and kaleidoscopic oeuvre, and how these writings and perspectives can, in turn, help us better understand the undefinable nature of love and longing. For Ibn Al-'Arabi, love is more than a feeling, it is the fundamental nature of consciousness, God, and reality itself. 1160 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 19:00:00 GMT 01:03:53 Ibn 'Arabi, love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Oludamini Ogunnaike Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Online Presentation: Hosted by the Abbasi Program, Stanford University Love is mysterious and many splendored—the source of our greatest joys and deepest sorrows; easy to talk and sing about, but impossible to define. "One who defines love has not known it, and one who has not tasted it by drinking it down, has not known it," writes Ibn al-'Arabi. While Rumi is more associated with love in the contemporary imagination, love is equally central to the writings and tradition of the great Andalusian writer, thinker, and spiritual teacher, Ibn Al-'Arabi (d. 1240), known as al-Shaykh al-Akbar (The Greatest Master). Through an examination of his commentaries on two verses of the Qur'an (2:165 and 45:23), and exploration of the paradoxes and seeming contradictions therein, this workshop will explore how love is key to understanding Ibn Al-'Arabi’s vast and kaleidoscopic oeuvre, and how these writings and perspectives can, in turn, help us better understand the undefinable nature of love and longing. For Ibn Al-'Arabi, love is more than a feeling, it is the fundamental nature of consciousness, God, and reality itself. 1161 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:00:00 GMT 46:00 Ibn 'Arabi, love nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Gregory Vandamme Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Online Presentation, 2023 series Although Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) is known as "the greatest master” (al-shaykh al-akbar), little is known about his practical teachings and his approach to the master-disciple relationship. Apart from scattered accounts of his own companionship with various masters, Ibn ʿArabī dedicates very few books or chapters to the rules of spiritual education. Therefore, the Shaykh al-akbar’s views on the matter remain largely to be determined. An understudied work could contribute to fill this gap: the K. al-Ajwiba al-ʿarabiyya fī sharḥ al-naṣāʾiḥ al-yusūfiyya. It contains a detailed expression of Ibn ʿArabī’s conception of spiritual education, illustrated by numerous details and anecdotes that bring into light the practical and pedagogical implications of his doctrines. This talk will propose a brief overview of the treatise, its originality, and the principles of spiritual education that are defined in it. A particular focus will be given to the notion of "imaginary master”, central to both the pedagogical doctrine of Ibn ʿArabī and the nature of the K. al-Ajwiba al-ʿarabiyya. The talk will delve into how the imaginary master is presented as the necessary interface between the disciple and the master, and how it shapes the whole process of spiritual education. 1162 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:00:00 GMT 56:31 Ibn 'Arabi, spiritual education, imaginary master nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Bharatwaj Iyer Lecture at the Annual Members Meeting of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, 2023 The philosophical concepts at the heart of this presentation include Wujud, the Plural, and Ambiguity. I begin by examining Ibn Arabi's notion of belief as 'tying knots in the heart,' parallel to his understanding of the nature of Wujud and Barzakh. The aim is a fresh thinking about pluralism, grounded in Sufi metaphysics — a metaphysics focused on what Shahab Ahmed elsewhere describes as 'the multivalent experiential condition of hayra [paradoxical perplexity].' Without hastily asserting Ibn Arabi's pluralistic views of other traditions or religions, I dwell on what we today can learn from Ibn Arabi’s nuanced understanding of Being. This insight could offer us new perspectives for addressing the global rise of exclusivism and rigid, unambiguous identifications. The approach involves the philosophical application of Ibn Arabi's teachings on the essential delimitation of all doctrinal positions to current issues. Situated in the cultural and social realities of the subcontinent, I also highlight the historical application of these core Akbarian concepts in the diverse religious and spiritual expressions of subcontinental Sufis. Bharatwaj Iyer is a PhD student and a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay focusing on Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition. He is on the education team at MIAS, where he has served for over two years. He recently published "The Transimmanence of the Real: Ontological Pluralism in the School of Ibn ʻArabī" edited by Pablo Benito in Religions. A forthcoming article, "You are a Puzzle-lock: A Phenomenological Analysis of Perplexity," in Philosophy East and West examines the Urdu poem Tum ek Gorakh Dhanda ho from a Heideggerian perspective. His academic and activist interests are political pluralism and rising extremism. 1163 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:00:00 GMT 27:30 Ibn 'Arabi, pluralism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Maria Dakake Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Dr. Dakake researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She is one of the general editors and contributing authors of the The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015), which comprises a translation and verse-by-verse commentary on the Qur'anic text that draws upon the rich and varied tradition of Muslim commentary on their own scripture. Her most recent publication, The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an (September 2021), is a co-edited volume with 40 articles on the Qur'an's history, content, style, and interpretation written by leading contemporary scholars working from different methodological perspectives. She is currently completing a monograph, Toward an Islamic Theory of Religion, and has begun work on a partial translation of a Persian Qur'an commentary written by the 20th century Iranian female scholar, Nusrat Amin. 1164 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:00:00 GMT 21:50 Ibn 'Arabi, ta'wil, ishara nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Marlene Dubois Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Marlene DuBois is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Suffolk County Community College. Her research interests are in comparative religion, Sufism, and mythic narratives. 1165 Thu, 4 Jan 2024 19:00:00 GMT 21:50 Ibn 'Arabi nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Mohammed Rustom Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra and Assistant Editor of The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary (Editor-in-Chief, Seyyed Hossein Nasr) 1166 Sun, 4 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT 15:18 Ibn 'Arabi, translation nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Pablo Beneito Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society Online Presentation, 2024 series Pablo writes: This presentation analyses the content of Ibn ʻArabī’s lesser-known work, Kitāb Manzil al-manāzil al-fahwāniyya ("The Mansion that Gathers [the Keys to All] the Mansions in Which Direct Speech Descends”), which is devoted to Quranic hermeneutics and structured on symbolic principles derived from the science of numbers and the abjad alphanumeric system. It explores the author's unique correlation between the 114 'mansions’ or 'stations’ and the 114 suras of the Quran, classifying them into 19 major mansions based on the introductory text of each sura. Conceived as a journey of ascension (miʻrāj) through the Quran's 'citadels', this book is intimately related to chapter 22 of Ibn ʻArabī’s major work, al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya. In this presentation, I intend to address some of the implicit, yet unexplored, questions raised in this book. I propose that Ibn ʻArabī employed strategic ambiguity in his writing, using misleading elements and deliberate omissions to avoid undue attention. Pablo Beneito is a Professor of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Murcia. He has served as an Invited Professor at institutions such as the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) and the University of Kyoto (ASAFAS), among others. In his study of Ibn Arabi’s thought, Pablo has extensively researched, edited, and translated several of his works and other texts related to him. His English-language publications include Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries (co-authored with Cecilia Twinch); Kashf al-ma'nâ, The Secret of God’s Most Beautiful Names (forthcoming with Anqa Publishing), and both The Seven Days of the Heart and Patterns of Contemplation (co-authored with Stephen Hirtenstein). Since 2011, he has been coordinating the activities of MIAS-Latina. Starting in 2014, he took on the role of Editor for El Azufre Rojo: Revista de Estudios sobre Ibn Arabi published by EDITUM at the University of Murcia, and he curated the "Jayal: Creative Imagination" exhibition at Casa Árabe in Madrid and Córdoba from 2016 to 2017. 1167 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT 54:45 Ibn 'Arabi, Manzil al-manāzil nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Rosabel Ansari Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Rosabel Ansari's areas of Specialization include Classical and post-classical Islamic philosophy; Graeco-Arabic Studies.Her research involves the transmission of Ancient Greek philosophy into Arabic, Arabic and Islamic metaphysics in both the classical and post-classical periods, the philosophy of language, and the relationship between rational and supra-rational forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophy. Her forthcoming monograph is on metaphysics and the philosophy of language in the philosophy of al-Fārābī. 1168 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:00:00 GMT 16:34 Ibn 'Arabi, Graeco-Roman, Peripatetic nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Amer Latif Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Dr. Amer Latif is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in comparative religion and Islamic studies. Broadly speaking, his research revolves around issues involved in the translation of cultures. Having grown up in Pakistan and with an undergraduate degree in Physics, Dr. Latif thrives on studying and creating containers that are capacious enough to hold seeming contradictions such as science and religion, East and West. Dr. Latif joins Emerson after having taught for many years at Marlboro College. 1169 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT 17:47 Ibn 'Arabi, Ottoman novel nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Atif Khalil Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Atif Khalil is on the faculty of Religious Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Khalil's primary area of research lies in Sufism, with secondary interests in Islamic philosophy and theology, comparative mysticism, interfaith relations, Jewish-Muslim relations, medieval philosophy, non-duality, and more recently, mysticism and the Near Death Experience. At present, he is writing a monograph on dhikr, tentatively entitled The Wine of Divine Remembrance: Meditation in Classical Sufism. 1170 Wed, 5 Jun 2024 19:00:00 GMT 20:56 Ibn 'Arabi, Japan, Toshihiko Izutsu nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Oludamini Ogunnaike Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Oludamini Ogunnaike is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on African and African Diasporic Religions as well as Islam, Islamic Philosophy, Spirituality, and Art. He holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. Professor Ogunnaike's research examines the philosophical dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa. He is currently working on a book entitled, Sufism and Ifa: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions and maintains a digital archive of West African Sufi poetry. 1171 Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:00:00 GMT 23:20 Ibn 'Arabi, Dan Tafa nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Shankar Nair Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Shankar Nair specializes in Muslim-Hindu interactions in South Asia, Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur'anic exegesis, Hindu philosophy and theology, and South Asian religious literatures, primarily in the context of the early modern period, but also including the medieval period 1172 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:00:00 GMT 23:16 Ibn 'Arabi, Hinduism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Sachiko Murata Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 Dr Sachiko Murata’s research has included the interrelationships between Islamic and Far Eastern thought, especially in the writings of the Huiru, "the Muslim Confucianists,” who wrote numerous tracts in Chinese from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. She has published many scholarly articles and a number of books. These include Isuramu Horiron Josetsu (Iwanami, 1985), the translation of a major text on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence from Arabic into Japanese; The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought (SUNY Press, 1992); Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu’s Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih’s Displayig the Concealment of the Real Realm (SUNY Press, 2000); and with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (Harvard University Press, 2009). 1173 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT 16:18 Ibn 'Arabi, Chinese, Taoism nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no William Chittick Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn al-'Arabi, and the Multilingual Islamic Past. Columbia University, New York, October 20-21, 2023 William C. Chittick is an internationally renowned scholar on Islamic civilization as well as Comparative Philosophy and Religious Studies. He is author, editor and translator of 30 books and monographs, and nearly 200 articles on Islamic thought, Shi’ism and Sufism. His works have been translated into a dozen languages used in the Middle East, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe. His writings have influenced all students of Islamic thought and have played an important role in changing the content and contour of philosophy education by breaking the hegemony of Western philosophy. Dr. Chittick is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and most recently, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He won the World Prize for the Book of the Year twice, conferred by the Islamic Republic of Iran. His fierce dedication to the pursuit of knowledge has been an inspiration for all his colleagues in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, where he has mentored students and scholars of Islamic studies from all over the world. 1174 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT 53:17 Ibn 'Arabi, Farghani nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Angela Jaffray MIAS Events online presentation, July 2024 Angela writes: Overshadowed by his younger brother Moses, known primarily for his negative role in the Golden Calf saga, the Prophet Aaron’s importance may seem to some negligible, his status auxiliary, his effect doubtful. A close reading of the Shaykh al-Akbar’s various treatments of this seemingly minor prophet, however, allows us to take a second look at this paradoxical prophet and the complex nature of his leadership and cosmic significance, as themes as perplexing as transcendental and immanental worship, mercy and severity, beauty and majesty come to the fore. This presentation will examine a number of texts where Aaron’s role is singled out in a significant way. In addition to the more familiar Futūḥāt chapters (primarily: "Alchemy of Human Happiness," and "Breath") and the Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam’s "Chapter on the Religious Leadership in the Word of Aaron,"" we will also take a look at various other sources, including the Prayers of the Week, the Mosul Revelations, the Night Journey, and the Voyages of the Prophets. Angela Jaffray is an independent scholar specialising in the translation of and commentary on the short works of Ibn 'Arabī. Her translation of Ibn 'Arabī’s al-Ittiḥād al-kawnī (The Universal Tree and the Four Birds) was published by Anqa Publications in 2007, and her translation and commentary on Ibn 'Arabī’s Isfār 'an natā’ij al-asfār (The Secrets of Voyaging) was published by Anqa Publications in 2015, reprinted in 2016. She is currently working on a revised translation and commentary on al-Niffarī’s Mawāqif and Mukhaṭabāt. 1175 Tue, 3 Sep 2024 19:00:00 GMT 01:03:27 Ibn 'Arabi, Aaron nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Stephen Hirtenstein MIAS Events online presentation, June 2024 The title for this talk is drawn from the final mysterious book-title mentioned by Ibn 'Arabi in his listing of his own writings in the Fihrist ('Catalogue'). It would be impossible to appreciate Ibn 'Arabi's writings without encountering the notion of al-insān al-kāmil explicitly or implicitly, but how and where does Ibn 'Arabi actually use the term in his writing? What are the key features of this perfect human? In what way could it apply to each and every human being? Stephen Hirtenstein is a MIAS Senior Research Fellow and Director of Anqa Publishing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society from 1982 to 2023. Since 2001, he has been working on the MIAS archiving project for the historic manuscripts of Ibn 'Arabi. He works as an Editor for the Encyclopaedia Islamica (Brill in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) and runs courses on Sufism and Sufi poetry at the University of Oxford. His most recent publications include a three-part article on Ibn 'Arabi’s Fihrist ('Catalogue') in the Journal, and books such as Patterns of Contemplation (2021) and Ibn 'Arabi’s Prayers for the Week (2021). He is currently revising his first book, The Unlimited Mercifier (1999). He has just been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Ibn 'Arabi Society. 1176 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:00:00 GMT 01:08:18 Ibn 'Arabi, Perfect Human nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Dunja Rasic MIAS Events online presentation, October 2024 Dunja writes: In Islam, Azrael is best known as the angel of death. The divine unveilings he received led Ibn Arabi to the conclusion that he is also a friend, healer and protector of pious Muslims. My lecture dwells deeper into the archangel's relationship with humans - with special emphasis on the spiritual seekers endowed with the heart of Azrael. Dunja Rasic is a researcher at the University of Religions and Denominations and the author of The Written World of God (Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2021), Bedeviled (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024) and The Nightfolk (Oakland: University of California Press, 2025). Her research interests revolve around philosophical Sufism, philosophy of language, Sufi cosmology and the school of Ibn 'Arabi. 1177 Thu, 27 Dec 2024 19:00:00 GMT 01:00:14 Ibn 'Arabi, Azrael, angels nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no Rory Dickson MIAS Events online presentation, November 2024 To help bring Ibn 'Arabi's timeless teachings to life for people today, Dickson, in his new book, explores key themes from the Fusus al-Hikam (The Gemstones of Wisdom), a work that conveys the essential wisdom of the prophets on being, reality and human capacity. Dickson addresses many of the challenging aspects of Ibn 'Arabi's thought, showing how multiple interpretations allow it to engage modern audiences and contribute to philosophical and ecumenical discussions. This conversation will focus on how complex metaphysical ideas and theological debates can be accessible and relevant for both spiritual seekers and intellectuals. Join us for a gathering featuring an insightful contemporary engagement with Ibn 'Arabi’s ideas. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, William Rory Dickson was drawn to Islam and Sufism in his late teens. He pursued the study of Sufism in graduate degrees in Waterloo, Ontario, while maintaining a broad interest in various contemplative traditions. His first book, Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation (SUNY 2015), was the first academic monograph on North American Sufi groups. He has co-authored an introduction to Sufism with Meena Sharify-Funk, Unveiling Sufism: From Manhattan to Mecca (Equinox 2017), as well as an overview of Sufism in the modern period, Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture (Routledge 2018), with Sharify-Funk and Merin Shobhana Xavier. His latest work, Dissolving into Being: The Wisdom of Sufi Philosophy (Anqa 2024) offers an introduction to Sufi philosophy, providing a modern commentary on chapters of Ibn 'Arabi’s Gemstones of Wisdom. Dickson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Religion and Culture Department at the University of Winnipeg. 1178 Thu, 7 Mar 2025 19:00:00 GMT 01:02:25 Ibn 'Arabi, sufi philosophy, Fusus al-Hikam, metaphysics nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Pablo Beneito MIAS Events online presentation, December 2024 This is an online book launch in December 2024 in conjunction with Anqa Books (Stephen Hirtenstein) and the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society (Kris Ramlan). Professor Michael Sells gives an appraisal, followed by a Q&A. This book is the first English translation of two key works by Ibn 'Arabi on the 99 Divine Names: Kashf al-ma'nā and an excerpt from Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya. With an introduction and insightful notes, it presents Ibn 'Arabi's comprehensive understanding of the Divine Names, which underpin the very fabric of existence, and how he focuses on three aspects of the Names: our dependence on each Name, the reality of the Name in relation to God, and the servant's being characterised by the Name. It is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the real mystical significance of the Divine Names and Ibn 'Arabi's vision of the divine-human relationship. Pablo Beneito, Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia, Spain, is a renowned translator and commentator on Ibn 'Arabi's works. He also serves as the editor of El Azufre Rojo: Revista de Estudios sobre Ibn Arabi and coordinates activities for the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society–Latina. 1179 Sat, 5 Apr 2025 19:00:00 GMT 01:29:01 Ibn 'Arabi, Names of God, Anqa books nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Muhammad U Faruque Online Talk presented by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society (MIAS) Events 12th April 2025 Muhammad writes: This lecture explores the concept of the anthropocosmic self in Ibn 'Arabi's thought, presenting his vision of life as a dynamic interplay between the human being, the cosmos, and the divine. Ibn ʿArabi, a seminal figure in Sufism, offers a profound framework for understanding selfhood - not as an isolated entity but as a microcosm deeply interwoven with the macrocosm and the divine. This anthropocosmic perspective reorients the purpose of human existence from self-centred individuality to a participatory role in the unfolding of divine realities within creation. It argues that the ultimate vision of life, according to Ibn 'Arabi, is a journey of spiritual realization, wherein the human being transcends dualities and becomes a living bridge between the physical and the transcendent realms. The talk concludes by reflecting on the contemporary relevance of Ibn 'Arabi’s anthropocosmic vision, particularly in addressing modern existential and ecological crises, offering a model of selfhood that harmonizes personal flourishing with cosmic and spiritual interconnectedness. Muhammad U. Faruque is Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Cincinnati. A scholar of Islamic Studies and global philosopher, he has lectured widely across North America, Europe, and Asia. His work, translated into multiple languages, has been recognized by major U.S. funding bodies, including the Templeton Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education. His first book, Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021), won the World Prize for Book of the Year from the President of Iran. His forthcoming book, The Interconnected Universe: Sufism, Climate Change, and Ecological Living, explores how Sufi contemplative practices foster an ecologically sustainable way of life through an "anthropocosmic" vision of the self. 1180 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMT 44:04 Anthropocosmic self nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Gracia López Anguita Mirrors of the Transcendent in the Cosmos of Ibn 'Arabi: Symposium held by the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and the Warburg Institute, University of London , 25/26 July 2025 Ibn 'Arabi states in Futuhat that 'the breath of the creatures comes from the divine breath' or that 'the human breath has the same form as that of the Merciful.' Parting from this idea, a whole set of implications related with the articulation of language, the act of praising, the continuous creation, the esoteric-exoteric dialectic or even with love, unfolds itself. From the reading of some of Ibn Arabi's cosmological texts, it can be deduced that there is a correlation between the cycle of breath exhalation/inhalation and the rhythm of creation/annihilation in the Universe. Gracia López Anguita is a lecturer in the Dept. of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Seville. She obtained her European PhD with a thesis on Ibn Arabi's treatise 'Uqlat al-mustawfiz awarded with the Doctorate Prize. She focuses her research on the thought of this Master and his school. She has been a visiting researcher at Allameh Tabatabai University and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and is currently part of the team of the research project funded by the Spanish Government and European funds: "Cultural and Religious Identity in Sufism in Morocco and Senegal: Hagiographies, Gender and Symbology." Recorded by Warburg Institute 1181 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMT 46:00 Divine breath, creation and annilhilation nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Mukhtar Ali Mirrors of the Transcendent in the Cosmos of Ibn 'Arabi: Symposium held by the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and the Warburg Institute, University of London , 25/26 July 2025 This paper explores the pivotal role of the Adamic fass in unlocking the profound metaphysical framework of Ibn al-'Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam. Centering on the concept of the comprehensive Being (al-kawn al-jami'), a term mentioned in the opening paragraph of the Fusus, the Adamic fass emerges as the key to understanding the divine necessity of human existence as a mirror of God's names and attributes. By elucidating the unique ontological position of Adam as the khalifa (vicegerent) and the synthesis of all divine manifestations, this study demonstrates how the Adamic 'fass' provides the interpretive lens through which the overarching unity and wisdom of each fass of the Fusus al-Hikam can be accessed. Ultimately, the paper argues that Adam represents not only the archetype of perfected humanity but also the means through which the divine self-disclosure (tajalli) achieves its fullest realization, making the Adamic fass the cornerstone for comprehending Ibn al-Arabi's vision of existence. Mukhtar Ali is Professor of Islamic Studies, specializing in Sufsm, Islamic philosophy and ethics. His areas of interest include Arabic and Persian literature, Qur'anic studies, theology, traditional medicine and comparative religion. He is the author of Philosophical Sufsm: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-'Arabi (Routledge, 2021) and The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn al-'Arabi in the Muqaddimat al-Qaysari (Brill, 2020) and his forthcoming work, Inscriptions of Wisdom: The Sufism of Ibn al-'Arabi in the Mirror of Jami, is a study on Ibn al-'Arabi's masterpiece, Fusus al-hikam through the lens of Jami's Naqd al-nusus fi sharh Naqsh al-Fusus. " Recorded by Warburg Institute 1182 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMT 56:02 Fusus al-hikam, Jami nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Gregory Vandamme Mirrors of the Transcendent in the Cosmos of Ibn 'Arabi: Symposium held by the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and the Warburg Institute, University of London , 25/26 July 2025 The Body of the Caliph: Corporeal Governance of the Human Kingdom in Ibn 'Arabi's al-Tadbirat al-ilahiyya and its Commentaries In his Book of the Divine Governances for the Restoration of the Human Kingdom (K. al-Tadbirat al-ilahiyya fi islah al-mamlaka al-insaniyya), Ibn 'Arabi describes how the flourishing of the individual depends on a spiritual policy ensuring harmony in the human microcosm. This governance of the individual is centred on the caliphal authority of the spirit and its vizier, the intellect. But where does that leave the body? Is it merely reduced to passive obedience to this authority, or does it too play an active role in this internal politics? In this presentation, we shall revisit the Tadbirat from the vantage point of the body, while also examining two later commentaries by Husayn b. Tu'ma al-Baytimani (d. 1175/1761) and Muhammad al-Damuni (d. ca. 1208/1794). GREGORY VANDAMME is a scholar specialising in classical Sufi thought, particularly the works of Ibn 'Arabi and his commentators. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from UCLouvain, where his dissertation focused on the concept of hayra (perplexity) in Ibn 'Arabi’s thought, exploring its implications in epistemology, metaphysics, and Qur'anic hermeneutics. Currently, Gregory is a post doctoral research associate at the University of Chester, following his roles as a research fellow at F.R.S.–FNRS and UCLouvain in Belgium, and as guest lecturer at SciencesPo Paris. His research primarily delves into the doctrines of speculative mysticism, Qur'anic hermeneutics, and spiritual education in Sufism. Recorded by Warburg Institute 1183 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMT 56:42 al-Tadbirat al-ilahiyya, the body nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no https://ibnarabisociety.org/podcasts-and-videos/ Stefan Sperl Mirrors of the Transcendent in the Cosmos of Ibn 'Arabi: Symposium held by the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and the Warburg Institute, University of London , 25/26 July 2025 "Different Aesthetics" – A New Approach to Sufi Texts? The topic of the MIAS-Warburg Symposium was inspired by an interdisciplinary research project on Premodern Aesthetics spearheaded by the University of Tuebingen. It approaches aesthetic acts and artifacts not as objects sufficient unto themselves and hence to be viewed with 'disinterested pleasure' (Kant), but as agents endowed with an aesthetic energy in which their true purpose resides, and which explains the dynamic impact they can have on socio-cultural and psychological processes. The aesthetic acts and artifacts studied by the project also include Christian mystical texts whose aesthetic energy aims to engender in the recipient a state of consciousness akin to the beatific vision. A collection of papers produced by contributors to the Tuebingen project has just appeared in English translation (Different Aesthetics: Principles, Questions, Perspectives, edited by A. Gerock-Reiter et al., De Gruyter, 2025). The presentation will introduce the scope of the project, discuss recent examples of its application to Christian and Muslim texts, and conclude with remarks on its relevance for the study of the Akbarian tradition. Stefan Sperl graduated from Oxford (Arabic) and SOAS (PhD 1977), and spent ten years working for UNHCR in Egypt, Sudan and Geneva. He joined SOAS in 1988 and retired in 2018 as Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. His publications include articles on Arabic, Islamic and Refugee Studies, as well as Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (1989), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Africa and Asia (with C. Shackle, 1996) and The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship (with A. Moustafa, 2014) which won the Iran Book of the Year Award (2016). His recent publications are 'The Qur’an and Arabic Poetry' (The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, 2020), the volume Faces of the Infinite, Neoplatonism and Poetry at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe with the accompanying website lyrics-of-ascent.net (with Y. Dedes, 2022), and 'Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts' (The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality, 2023). He continues to be actively engaged in research and since 2023 has been teaching Arabic literature courses at the University of Cambridge. Recorded by Warburg Institute 1184 Sun, 21 Feb 2026 19:00:00 GMT 51:33 aesthetics nick.yiangou@ibnarabisociety.org (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)no