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A selection of talks given at the annual symposia of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society
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The Perfect Human and the Greatest Name
Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 8m
Dispatch from the Red Planet: Prophet Aaron’s Paradoxical Persona
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 3m
Farghānī on Waḥdat al-Wujūd in the Four Journeys
Aug 18, 2024 • 53m
Wujūdī Metaphysics in Chinese
Aug 9, 2024 • 16m
The Heart as Cosmic Creator: Hindu Scriptures Translated through the Lens of Ibn al-ʿArabī
Jul 23, 2024 • 23m
Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Two Poems of Shaykh Dan Tafa
Jul 20, 2024 • 23m
Ibn al-ʿArabī in Japan: The Life and Legacy of Toshihiko Izutsu (1914-1993)
Jun 5, 2024 • 20m
The Sufi Path of Extraordinary Ordinariness in the Ottoman Novel "The Depths of Imagination"
Apr 16, 2024 • 17m
Ibn al-ʿArabī in Peripatetic guise? From ʿiyān to burhān and the epistemological problematic
Mar 28, 2024 • 16m
Keys to Decipher Ibn ʻArabī’s Manzil al-manāzil. Ibn ʻArabī's unique Quranic journey in Kitāb Manzil: A mystical correlation of 114 suras with the science of numbers and symbolic ascent
Feb 27, 2024 • 54m
Ibn al-ʿArabī on Translation
Feb 4, 2024 • 15m
The Covenant of Alast: When Love Shared its Promise
Jan 4, 2024 • 21m
Ta’wīl and Ishāra: The Meaning of these Terms in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Approach to the Qur’an
Dec 11, 2023 • 21m
Ibn Arabi's Pluralistic Vision in a World of Exclusivism
Oct 28, 2023 • 27m
Spiritual Education and the "Imaginary Master" in Ibn ʿArabī's Kitāb al-Ajwiba al-ʿarabiyya
Aug 23, 2023 • 56m
'Those who believe are more intense in love': Ibn al-'Arabi and the Paradoxes of Love - Part 2
Aug 15, 2023 • 46m
'Those who believe are more intense in love': Ibn al-'Arabi and the Paradoxes of Love
Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 3m
Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism
Jun 8, 2023 • 32m
Ahmad Avni Bey's Understanding of Ibn 'Arabi
May 8, 2023 • 1h 2m
'Ibn 'Arabi in Spiritual Fiqh and Gnostic Knowledge
May 1, 2023 • 41m
Dawud al-Qaysari's Muqaddima: The Essential Introduction to Ibn 'Arabi
Apr 1, 2023 • 45m
Receptivity, activity and gender in Ibn Arabi's work
Feb 28, 2023 • 46m
Divine 'writing' and the feminine in Ibn 'Arabi
Feb 22, 2023 • 42m
The half-door and Salma's house: the architecture of love
Feb 15, 2023 • 33m
Julian of Norwich: All manner of things shall be well
Jan 27, 2023 • 40m
Love in the teachings of Ibn 'Arabī
Jan 6, 2023 • 41m
Language Acts and Worldmaking
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 11m
Language Acts and Worldmaking
Dec 13, 2022 • 1h 0m
‘Upholding the Balance': Tilimsani's Commentary on the Divine Name al-Muqsit
Nov 25, 2022 • 42m
Embodying the In-Between: Comparative Reflections on the walī and the Bodhisattva
Nov 9, 2022 • 45m
Ibn ‘Arabi's alphabet of prophets: the spirit and form of the Fuṣūṣ
Oct 31, 2022 • 33m
"A Noble Letter with Multiple Aspects" - The letter wāw according to Ibn ‘Arabi, in poetry and prose
Oct 18, 2022 • 51m
The Three Great Books: Letters, Elements and Prime Matter in Ibn ‘Arabi's Cosmogony
Oct 5, 2022 • 40m
Thus Spoke Adam
Sep 26, 2022 • 35m
A Fresh Look at Ibn Sabʿīn: The Circular Scale of Transcendence and Mediation
Sep 19, 2022 • 35m
The Ambiguities of Union: Fana & Baqa
Aug 18, 2022 • 38m
The Structure of the Universe as a Network
Aug 9, 2022 • 42m
'Tasting, Drinking and Quenching Thirst'
Jul 20, 2022 • 37m
The Dot and the Line: Akbarian views on time and the instant
Jul 13, 2022 • 43m
The Alif – the One, the Many and the Beautiful
Jul 6, 2022 • 43m
The Perplexing Geometry of Being
Jul 1, 2022 • 36m
The Geometry of Causality and the Unfolding of Destiny
Jun 22, 2022 • 45m
The Symbolism of the Two Arcs: some reflections
Jun 16, 2022 • 33m
The Encircling Alighting Places of the Qur'an
Jun 1, 2022 • 39m
The Structure of Two-Ness
May 25, 2022 • 35m
The Point of the Compass
May 18, 2022 • 43m
The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion
May 11, 2022 • 39m
The Circle and the Compass
May 4, 2022 • 38m
Qurrat al-'Ayn, the Maiden of the Ka'ba
Mar 10, 2020 • 50m
'One understands that a journey entails weariness and difficulty': circularity, duality and compassion in the Footstool
Feb 25, 2020 • 56m
Ibn 'Arabi Counsels His Own Soul: Guidance and deception in the Ruh al-Quds
Jan 13, 2020 • 42m
Beyond Belief: Ibn 'Arabi on the Perennial Challenges of Realization
Dec 1, 2019 • 48m
Better Living Through Alchemy – Some Secrets of Spiritual Medicine
Nov 4, 2019 • 36m
Love and Happiness, Suffering and Bewilderment: One of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s anti-systematic treatments of the human condition
Oct 4, 2019 • 38m
Ibn Arabi's 'Doves of the Arak Tree' and its Arabian, Qur'anic and Plotinian Antecedents
Sep 25, 2018 • 46m
Bewildered – a new translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Tarjuman poems
Aug 17, 2018 • 55m
The Healer of Wounds: interpreting human existence in the light of alchemy and ascension
Jul 14, 2018 • 44m
A Journey Through Wasl and Fasl: Women and Sexual Relations in Ibn Arabi's Thought
Jan 29, 2018 • 40m
Abu Madyan's child, per singular momenta and the skull suture: understanding Ibn 'Arabi's Futuhat
Nov 26, 2017 • 37m
Ibn 'Arabi's Metaphysics of Love
Nov 26, 2017 • 32m
Worshipping in Three Dimensions: Emigrating in God's Vast Earth
Nov 26, 2017 • 30m
Ibn al-'Arabi on The Grammar of Gratitude and the Shirk of Shukr
Nov 26, 2017 • 32m
Ibn al-'Arabi and the Postmodern Philosophers: The Return to God After the Death of God
Oct 8, 2017 • 37m
Some Aspects of 'Supra-reason' in Ibn 'Arabi's Epistemology
Aug 26, 2017 • 48m
Ibn 'Arabi on Free Will and Predestination. Between Philosophy and Mysticism
Jul 15, 2017 • 38m
Ibn al 'Arabi's Encounter with Ibn Rushd and the Merging of the Two Seas of Mysticism and Philosophy in Islam
May 25, 2017 • 37m
An Atlas of Love
Oct 6, 2016 • 2h 6m
The Structure of Divine Light and Human Knowledge
Sep 30, 2016 • 40m
Beyond the Opposites: Identities and How to Survive Them in Light of the Light of Oneness
Aug 3, 2016 • 45m
Water, Light, Knowledge: Towards an Ecology of Imagination
Jun 22, 2016 • 48m
Ibn 'Arabi and Reimagining Gender
Apr 14, 2016 • 35m
Animal world and Perfect Man: Ibn 'Arabi and the metaphysics of ecology
Mar 13, 2016 • 41m
The Mark of Friendship and the Structure of Sanctity in the Teachings of Ibn 'Arabi
Feb 6, 2016 • 41m
"And My Mercy Encompasses All": Peace in light of Akbarian metaphysics of Compassion
Jan 8, 2016 • 31m
Inspiration and Discernment: Ibn 'Arabi's Introduction to the Challenges of Spiritual Sensitivity and Judgment
Nov 29, 2015 • 42m
Selected readings from the poetry of Ibn 'Arabi
Nov 24, 2015 • 5m
Ibn 'Arabi: The Doorway into an Intellectual Tradition
Oct 27, 2015 • 41m
Refreshing repose and a reviving scent
Jul 24, 2015 • 42m
Waking to the Embrace: Applying Ibn 'Arabi’s Teachings on Embodiment
May 31, 2015 • 39m
Bird from the Garden of Meanings: Soul and Speech in Ibn ‘Arabi's Reading of Jesus
Apr 3, 2015 • 38m
Maryam: Pious Woman, Saint or Prophet?
Mar 1, 2015 • 38m
Sanctity and the Song of Life
Feb 3, 2015 • 28m
Jesus and Christic Sanctity in Ibn 'Arabi and Early Islamic Spirituality
Dec 27, 2014 • 36m
Selected Readings from the poetry of Ibn 'Arabi
Dec 4, 2014 • 13m
Life in Ibn 'Arabi's 'Ringsetting of Prophecy in the Word of Jesus'
Nov 17, 2014 • 30m
The akbarian Jesus: the paradigm of a pilgrim in God
Sep 7, 2014 • 51m
Reviving the dead: Ibn 'Arabi as the Heir to Jesus
Jul 17, 2014 • 51m
"Your bewilderment will allow you to arrive at me." Finding Beauty in the Midst of Conflict: Ibn 'Arabi in Jerusalem Today
Apr 22, 2014 • 23m
Perception of Beauty and Ugliness According to Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi
Feb 22, 2014 • 18m
Gabriel's descension to Prophets, particularly the Prophet Muhammad, in radiantly beautiful human forms rather than in its own Angelic grandeur
Jan 12, 2014 • 31m
The Poetics of Shuhud: Experiencing and Expressing Human-Divine Beauty
Dec 8, 2013 • 40m
Poetry and Prose: Two modes of expressing mystical experience in the Tarjuman al-ashwaq
Nov 4, 2013 • 51m
Narrative and Mystical Perception: the two prefaces to Ibn 'Arabi's Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
Oct 4, 2013 • 48m
Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi and Muhyi al-Din Ibn 'Arabi: A Hitherto Neglected Comparison
Sep 1, 2013 • 40m
"A Donkey's Tail With Angel’s Wings": Being Fully Human According to Rumi
Aug 5, 2013 • 40m
Being Human According to the Qur'an
Jul 2, 2013 • 30m
A Hindu Commentator on Ibn 'Arabi
Jun 4, 2013 • 41m
The Religion of Love Revisited
May 5, 2013 • 52m
Philosophers and mystics on the semantics of Being: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi's correspondence with Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Jan 13, 2013 • 27m
On Aspiration and Poverty
Dec 8, 2012 • 50m
Self Knowledge in the Practice of the Person-Centred Approach
Nov 10, 2012 • 28m
Poesis and Prayer in Ibn 'Arabi
Oct 5, 2012 • 47m
Spiritual Realization (al-tahqiq) through Daily Awakening
Sep 9, 2012 • 46m
Living through the Spectacles of Tasavvuf
Aug 13, 2012 • 48m
Ibn 'Arabi and the modern Mindfulness movement
Jul 15, 2012 • 50m
"As for your Lord’s blessings, recount them!": Ibn ‘Arabi’s Storytelling and Spiritual Communication
Jun 13, 2012 • 50m
Trying to find the path of Ibn 'Arabi in 21st Century London
May 16, 2012 • 22m
Rumi’s Community: Celebrating the Eternal Rumi with Poetry and Music
Apr 10, 2012 • 46m
Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference Wrap-up and Panel Discussion
Mar 20, 2012 • 50m
Ibn 'Arabi's Vision of the Multiple Oneness of the Inner Human Kingdom
Mar 1, 2012 • 31m
Ibn 'Arabi's Lyric Mysticism and the Persian-Arabic Love Affair
Feb 7, 2012 • 20m
How Sweetly with a Kiss Is the Speech Interrupted: The Dynamism of Silence in Rumi's Lyric Poetry
Jan 2, 2012 • 35m
"We Sucked Milk From Two Mothers"; Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi as Co-founders of Ottoman Sufi Thought
Dec 4, 2011 • 47m
Recitation of Rumi's Poetry in Persian and English
Nov 10, 2011 • 27m
Recitation of Ibn 'Arabi's Poetry in Arabic and English
Oct 20, 2011 • 24m
Becoming Real: Realization and Revelation in Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi
Oct 11, 2011 • 21m
Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World 1
Oct 5, 2011 • 49m
Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World 3
Oct 5, 2011 • 26m
Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World 2
Oct 5, 2011 • 53m
Consciousness, Imagination and Gratitude: The Inexhaustible Sources of the Self
Sep 3, 2011 • 54m
On the Spiritual typologies in Ibn 'Arabi's Kitab al-Abadila
Jul 23, 2011 • 54m
Ibn 'Arabi, Human Potential and the Postmodern Self
Jun 13, 2011 • 43m
Ibn 'Arabi on Himmah: the spiritual power of the strong-souled individual
May 13, 2011 • 55m
A'yan thabita and Time
Mar 19, 2011 • 28m
Whose calling, whose response? Ibn 'Arabi on Divine and Human Responsiveness
Jan 21, 2011 • 55m
Ibn 'Arabi's Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion
Nov 7, 2010 • 39m
"He governs the world through itself" – Ibn 'Arabi on Spiritual Causation
Aug 27, 2010 • 40m
Appearance is the Unsurpassed Protection.
Jul 19, 2010 • 40m
Kierkegaard's teaching on Absolute Dependence
Jun 22, 2010 • 45m
Ibn 'Arabi in Dialogue with the Confucian Tradition
May 8, 2010 • 27m
Ibn 'Arabi's View of the Cosmos
Mar 28, 2010 • 34m
The Mystic's Ka'ba; The Wisdom of the Heart According to Ibn 'Arabi
Feb 21, 2010 • 42m
The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn 'Arabi's Futuhat
Jan 21, 2010 • 45m
The Poetry of Ibn Arabi - Recitations from the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
Dec 13, 2009 • 40m
WBAI Interview with William Chittick
Oct 28, 2009 • 50m
WBAI Interview with Mohamed Haj Yousef
Oct 28, 2009 • 44m
Opening the heart in the Futuhat
Sep 24, 2009 • 58m
The Cosmic Heart: the heart of the Perfect Human
Aug 5, 2009 • 35m
The spirituality of the heart in the Syriac tradition
Jul 19, 2009 • 50m
The Wisdom of the heart unveils the Heart of wisdom
Jun 20, 2009 • 45m
Past and Future of Knowledge: the Time of Gnosis in Ibn 'Arabi's Writings
May 17, 2009 • 19m
Interreligous Dialogue: Islam and Christianity, Ibn 'Arabi and Meister Eckhart
Apr 19, 2009 • 22m
"O Marvel!": a Paradigm Shift towards Integration
Mar 21, 2009 • 28m
The "Instruments of Divine Mercy": from the Path to the Real in Ibn 'Arabi's Meccan Illuminations
Feb 20, 2009 • 24m
"And He taught Adam all the Names": The Foundation of the Spiritual Caliphate
Jan 25, 2009 • 24m
Ibn 'Arabi and His School in Iran: Past and Present
Dec 19, 2008 • 25m
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on Ibn 'Arabi and Modernity
Nov 20, 2008 • 24m
The Wisdom of Animals
Oct 26, 2008 • 30m
From the One to the One-another. Mystical ethics in Ibn 'Arabi and in the Sufi Tradition.
Sep 26, 2008 • 50m
Sadr al-din Qunawi and his relationship with Jalal al-din Rumi
Aug 25, 2008 • 58m
"And among them, may Allah be pleased, are Watermen"
Jul 25, 2008 • 43m
A Comparative Approach to Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart
Jun 22, 2008 • 32m
The realms of responsibility in Ibn Arabi's Futuhat
May 28, 2008 • 42m
Joined at the Crossroads: Ibn al-Farid and Ibn al-'Arabi in the Islamic Mystical Tradition
Apr 24, 2008 • 51m
The Globalisation of Consciousness
Mar 23, 2008 • 42m
"Watered with One Water": Ibn 'Arabi on the One and the Many
Feb 22, 2008 • 40m
Timelessness and Time
Jan 29, 2008 • 28m
Whoever loses himself finds Me and whoever finds Me, never loses Me again
Dec 19, 2007 • 36m
Unified Vision, Unified World?
Nov 25, 2007 • 36m
Self-Knowledge and Self-Consciousness in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
Oct 22, 2007 • 1h 7m
Mediating Intimacy: Essential Ibn 'Arabi for Education and Psychotherapy
Sep 21, 2007 • 1h 4m
Temporal and Eternal Time in Ibn al-Arabi and Mulla Sadra
Aug 30, 2007 • 44m
Radical Vision and Universal Religion in Ibn al-'Arabi
Jul 20, 2007 • 31m
Crossing Borders: The Question of Human Belonging and Ibn 'Arabi's Theory of Perpetual Transformation
Jun 30, 2007 • 55m
"As if you saw Him"; vision and best action (ihsan) in Ibn 'Arabi's thought
May 27, 2007 • 39m
Building an Akbarian Tradition for the New Millenium: Toward a New Theology of Difference
Apr 22, 2007 • 1h 5m
By Way of Essential Meaning
Mar 24, 2007 • 42m
Naught but Love
Feb 24, 2007 • 51m
"Whoever knows himself..." in the Futuhat
Jan 22, 2007 • 1h 2m
Spiritual Life, Living Spirit - Ibn 'Arabi's Meeting with Jesus and John
Dec 24, 2006 • 1h 11m
You Are My Mirror
Nov 21, 2006 • 53m
The Levels of the Soul and the Levels of Time
Oct 21, 2006 • 42m
The Young Woman at the Ka'ba - Love and Infinity
Sep 24, 2006 • 45m
The Young Woman at the Ka'ba - Love and Infinity
Sep 24, 2006 • 45m
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