Contributors, Authors and Speakers

Binyamin Abrahamov is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Theology and Mysticism, and Qur'anic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He was head of the Department of Arabic and then Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He has published several books and articles on early Islamic theology, Al-Ghazali and Ibn al-'Arabi, in particular Ibn al-'Arabi and the Sufis, Anqa Publishing, 2014.

Articles by Binyamin Abrahamov

Ibn ‘Arabī ‘s Theory of Knowledge (Part One), JMIAS Vol 41, 2007
Ibn ‘Arabī’s Theory of Knowledge (Part Two), JMIAS Vol 42, 2007
Abandoning the Station (tark al-maqām) as Reflecting Ibn al-’Arabī’s Principle of Relativity, JMIAS Vol 47, 2010

Claude Addas studied Oriental Languages and has a degree in Arabic and Persian. She is the author of Quest for the Red Sulphur: the Life of Ibn Arabi, which has been translated into several languages, and Ibn ʻArabī, the voyage of no return. Her most recent publication is La Maison muhammadienne. Aperçus de la devotion au Prophète en mystique musulmane (Paris: Galimard, 2015).

Articles by Claude Addas

The Experience and Doctrine of Love in Ibn Arabi

Expérience et doctrine de l’amour chez Ibn Arabi (French)

The Ship of Stone

Le vaisseau de pierre (French)

Abu Madyan and Ibn Arabi

The Paradox of the Duty of Perfection in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi

The Muhammadian House – Ibn Arabi’s Concept of ahl al-bayt

“At the distance of two bows’ length or even closer” – The Figure of the Prophet in the Work of Abd al-Karim Jili | Part 1

“At the distance of two bows’ length or even closer” – The Figure of the Prophet in the Work of Abd al-Karim Jili | Part 2

Six Printed Editions of al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya – A Brief Survey | with Julian Cook

On Two Books Attributed to Ibn Arabi – Kitab al-mabadi wa l-ghayat li ma‘ani l-huruf and Kitab mahiyyat al-qalb | with Michel Chodkiewicz

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.

Podcasts by Samer Akkach

Self-Knowledge and Self-Consciousness in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism

Hamid Algar is Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He began his studies of Arabic, Persian and Islamic Civilzation at Cambridge in 1959. After graduating, he spent a lengthy and fruitful period of travel in Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan before returning to Cambridge in 1963 and completing his doctorate there two years later. He has been teaching in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Berkeley, since 1965, providing a wide range of instruction in the fields of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish literature and offering lecture courses on various aspects of Islamic religion and culture. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Tehran.

His research interests center on Shi’ism in Iran and Sufism in the Persian and Persian-influenced world, with particular emphasis on the Naqshbandi order. His copious writings have been published in an array of languages additional to English, such as French, German, Russian, Italian, Bosnian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Malay/Indonesian.

 http://nes.berkeley.edu/Web_HamidAlgar/Algar.html [/]

Articles by Hamid Algar

Reflections of Ibn Arabi in Early Naqshbandi Tradition

Ian Almond is a literary scholar and writer. He is Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

His specializations consist of Post-colonial theory, South Asian literature, representations of Islam and world literature. He is particularly known for his works on Islam. He is the author of five books, which have been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Korean, Indonesian and Bosnian.

https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TX6WAAW/ian-almond [/]

Podcasts by Ian Almond

A Comparative Approach to Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart

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.

https://sufiway.org/about-us/pir-elias [/]

Podcasts by Elias Amidon

Crossing Borders: The Question of Human Belonging and Ibn Arabi’s Theory of Perpetual Transformation

Wahid Amin is an intellectual historian specializing in medieval Arabic and Islamic thought. Having previously obtained a BSc. (Hons) degree in Physics (with a minor in Philosophy) from Imperial College, London, he obtained a first-class BA (Hons) degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Birmingham. He completed his postgraduate studies (MSt, DPhil) at the University of Oxford, obtaining his doctorate in 2016. He is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Muslim Philosophical and Theological Thought at the Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham. His thesis Nasir al-Tusi and the Avicennan Tradition: Metaphysics and Mental Existence is currently being prepared for publication as a monograph. His other main areas of interest include Shia usul al-fiqh especially of the post- Ansarian period, and the influence of the monistic philosophy of Ibn Arabi and his school on Shia personalities from the thirteenth century on wards.

Podcasts by Wahid Amin

Philosophers and mystics on the semantics of Being: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s correspondence with Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Dr. Ralph Austin taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at Durham University and is well-known for his translations of Ibn Arabi, above all Sufis of Andalusia and The Bezels of Wisdom, which have been acknowledged as entry-points to the study of Ibn 'Arabi by many contemporary scholars.

Articles by Ralph Austin

Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Ibn Arabi’s Thought

Image and Presence in the Thought of Ibn Arabi

The Lady Nizam – an Image of Love and Knowledge

On Knowing the Station of Love: Poems from the 78th Chapter of the Futuhat al-Makkiyya

Two Poems from the Diwān of Ibn 'Arabi

Bakri Aladdin originates from Damascus; he studied under Henry Corbin in Paris and went on to write his doctoral thesis on the life, works and doctrine of al-Nabulusi, who has been the subject of his three main published works. He has since researched and taught on subjects related to tasawwuf ans Islamic Studies in France and Syria. As well as being the author of many journal articles and books, in 2004 he edited with Souad Hakim a commentary on a book by Ibn Arabi, the Sharh a-Mashahid al-Qudsiyya.

Articles by Bakri Aladdin

The Mystery of Destiny (sirr al-qadar) in Ibn Arabi and al-Qunawi

Oneness of Being (wahdat al-wujud) – The Term and the Doctrine

Paul Ballanfat studied Philosophy and Islamic Studies as well as Arabic, Turkish and Persian. He currently teaches at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has concentrated on Sufism in Persian and Turkish culture, and is author of several books in French, including translations of Ruzbehan Baqli Shirazi’s The Spirits’ Procession, The Unveiling of Secrets and Najm al-din Kubra’s The Blossoming of Beauty and the Scents of Majesty. His most recent books are Messianisme et sainteté: les poèmes du mystique ottoman Niyazi Misri (Paris 2012) and Unité et spiritualité: le courant Hamzevi-Melami dans l’empire ottoman (Paris, 2013).

https://galatasaray.academia.edu/PaulBallanfat [/]

Articles by Paul Ballanfat

Reality and Image in the Tafsīr of Kubrā and Rāzī

Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. In 1976, Poet Robert Bly introduced Barks to the work of Jalaluddin Rumi. Barks has since translated more than a dozen volumes of Rumi’s poetry, including The Illuminated Rumi (1997) and The Essential Rumi (1995), often in collaboration with Persian scholar John Moyne. His work has resulted in an enormous recognition of Rumi in the United States. In 2006 the University of Tehran awarded Barks an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contributions to the field of Rumi translation.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/coleman-barks [/]

Podcasts by Coleman Barks

Rumi’s Community: Celebrating the Eternal Rumi with Poetry and Music

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.

http://www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu/fellows/salman-bashier [/]

Podcasts and Videos by Salman Bashier

Ibn al Arabi’s Encounter with Ibn Rushd and the Merging of the Two Seas of Mysticism and Philosophy in Islam

Radical Vision and Universal Religion in Ibn al-Arabi

Carlos Berbil is the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Videos by Carlos Berbil

A Fresh Look at Ibn Sabʿīn: The Circular Scale of Transcendence and Mediation

Prof. Ben Amor specializes in Arabic language and linguistics, language and identity, Arab music, and music in Sufism. His research combines his interests in music, language and identity in the Arab world through the study of lyrics. His most recent papers are entitled “Language through Literature” and “The Making of Tradition: Standardization of the Lyrics of the Tunisian Andalusian Malouf.” He published a textbook on Tunisian Arabic in 1988 and a composition manual in 1990. Other papers he wrote include “States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals,” “The Politics of Language and the Formalization of the Iraqi Maqam” and “Code Switching in Algerian Rai Music”. Professor Ben Amor is also an active musician (vocalist, percussionist and oud player) and music producer.

Podcasts by Taoufiq Ben-Amor

The Poetry of Ibn Arabi – Recitations from the Tarjuman al-ashwaq

Omar Benaissa est né en 1949 en Algérie et docteur en Etudes Iraniennes de l'Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998). Il a rédigé sa thèse de doctorat sur Les premiers transmetteurs de l'enseignement d’Ibn Arabi en terre de langue persane, en étudiant les deux siècles suivant la mort d’Ibn Arabi. Il a par ailleurs publié des articles sur l'histoire des idées dans le monde musulman et participe à plusieurs colloques d’islamologie, en particulier sur le soufisme.

Articles by Omar Benaïssa

The Degrees of the Station of No-Station

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.

Articles by Pablo Beneito

On the Divine Love of Beauty (PDF)

The Presence of Superlative Compassion

La Presencia De La Compasión Superlativa (Spanish)

The Servant of the Loving One – On the Adoption of the Character Traits of al-Wadud

The Time of Deeds and the Time of Spiritual Knowledge

The Prayer of Blessing [upon the Light of Muhammad] by Abd al-Aziz al-Mahdawi: Part 1, the Introduction; with Stephen Hirtenstein

The Prayer of Blessing [upon the Light of Muhammad] by Abd al-Aziz al-Mahdawi: Part 2, the Translation; with Stephen Hirtenstein

Podcasts and Videos by Pablo Beneito

Qurrat al-‘Ayn: the Maiden of the Ka‘ba

The Journey of the Heart

Ibn Arabi’s Vision of the Multiple Oneness of the Inner Human Kingdom

Past and Future of Knowledge: the Time of Gnosis in Ibn Arabi’s Writings

On the Spiritual Typologies in Ibn Arabi’s Kitab al-Abadilah

Naught but Love

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.

Podcasts by Sebastian Brock

The Spirituality of the Heart in the Syriac Tradition

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.

Articles by Jane Carroll

Timelessness and Time

Podcasts by Jane Carroll

Timelessness and Time

Aaron Cass has been an actor, musician, composer and co-founder of the Vastearth Orchestra, with whom he produced two albums issued by Beshara Publications. A Garden Amidst Flames is a recording of 31 extracts from four works by Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi and two followers. In Green Bird the musical content was extended, with some of the texts set as songs and some purely instrumental pieces.

Aaron studied Ibn Arabi and Rumi, amongst others, at the Beshara School in Scotland, where he was both a student and correlator.

Articles by Aaron Cass

The Ransom and the Ruin

Podcasts by Aaron Cass

Recitation of Ibn Arabi’s Poetry in Arabic and English

The Poetry of Ibn Arabi – Recitations from the Tarjuman al-ashwaq

Carlos Berbil Ceballos works as a translator and interpreter. He is Secretary of the cultural association Centro de Estudios Interculturales Al-Riquiti, based in Ricote, the birthplace of Ibn Sabin. His PhD at the University of Granada is focusing on the study and translation of several unpublished works attributed to Ibn Sabin.

Podcasts and Videos by Carlos Berbil Ceballos

Journeying from the Apparent to Absolute Being – Ibn Sabin and His Predecessors

William C. Chittick is a philosoper, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn Arabi, and he has written extensively on the school of Ibn Arabi, Islamic philosophy and Islamic cosmology.

Born in Milford, Connecticut, Chittick finished his BA at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and then went on to complete a PhD in Persian literature at University of Tehran under the supervision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in 1974. He taught comparative religion at Tehran’s Aryamehr Technical University and left Iran before the revolution. Chittick is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for his academic contributions in 2014.

To pick out a few books from the 22 listed on his website, the following have been hugely important contributions to modern studies of Ibn 'Arabi: Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-‛Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity (1994, translated into German, Indonesian, Persian, Spanish, Turkish); The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Metaphysics of Imagination (1989, translated into Persian, Turkish, and partially into Indonesian); The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Cosmology (1998); Ibn ‛Arabi: Heir to the Prophets (2005, translated into Albanian, Arabic, German, Persian, Turkish). The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (2009, with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming);

https://www.williamcchittick.com/ [/]

Articles by William C. Chittick

Ibn Arabi’s own Summary of the Fusus (PDF)

The Chapter Headings of the Fusus (PDF)

Two Chapters from the Futuhat (PDF)

The Last Will and Testament of Sadr al-Din Qunawi – Translation

The Central Point – Qunawi’s Role in the School of Ibn Arabi

Jami on Divine Love and the Image of Wine

The Divine Roots of Human Love

Presence with God

The Wisdom of Animals

Death and the Afterlife (PDF, Arabic)

The Anthropology of Compassion

The Religion of Love Revisited

Ibn Arabi: The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition

Qunawi on the One wujud

Commentary on a Hadith by Sadr al-Din Qunawi

Podcasts by William C. Chittick

Ibn Arabi: The Doorway into an Intellectual Tradition

The Religion of Love Revisited

The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat

Interview of 2009 on the Radio Show “Science, Health and Healing”

The Wisdom of Animals

Michel Chodkiewicz (1929–2020) was a French author and a scholar of Sufism, especially of Akbarian teaching. He was Director General then President and CEO of Editions du Seuil from 1977 to 1989 and director of studies at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, where he conducted seminars on Ibn 'Arabi.

Among his major books in translation are The Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi (1986), Ibn Arabi: The Meccan Revelations (translation of selected chapters, 1988) and An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn Arabi, the Book, and the Law (1992).

Articles by Michel Chodkiewicz

The Vision of God

The Endless Voyage

The Banner of Praise

The Diffusion of Ibn Arabi’s Doctrine

The Futuhat al-Makkiyya: Some Unresolved Enigmas

“We Will Show Them Our Signs…”

Miraj al-kalima – From the Risala Qushayriyya to the Futuhat al-Makkiyya

On Two Books Attributed to Ibn Arai – Kitab al-mabadi wa l-ghayat li maani l-huruf and Kitab mahiyyat al-qalb | with Claude Addas

The Paradox of the Ka‘ba

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.

Podcasts by Dot Clark

Self-Knowledge in the Practice of the Person-Centred Approach

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. A list of the freely available resources created or selected by her as a tutor can be found here:

https://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/people/jane-clark [/]

Articles by Jane Clark

Establishing Ibn Arabis Heritage: First Findings from the MIAS Archiving Project | with Stephen Hirtenstein (PDF)

Early Best-sellers in the Akbarian Tradition (PDF)

Towards a Biography of Sadruddin al-Qunawi

Fulfilling our Potential: Ibn Arabi’s Understanding of Man in a Contemporary Context

Universal Meanings in Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-hikam: Some Comments on the Chapter of Moses

Some Notes on the Manuscript Veliyuddin 51 | with Denis McAuley

The Preface to the Tarjuman al-ashwaq (PDF)

Symbol and Creative Imagination | Event Report

Spiritual Realisation: Knowledge and Practice | Event Report

Podcasts and Videos by Jane Clark

Ibn ‘Arabi Counsels His Own Soul: Guidance and Deception in the Ruh al-Quds

Narrative and Mystical Perception: the two prefaces to Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman al-ashwaq

“He Governs the World through Itself” – Ibn Arabi on Spiritual Causation

Sadr al-din al-Qunawi and His Relationship with Jalal al-din Rumi

“As If You Saw Him”; Vision and Best Action (ihsan) in Ibn Arabi’s Thought

Introduction to the 2018 UK Symposium “The Alchemy of Love”

Peter Coates was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, where he taught courses in the philosophy of psychology. Since retiring he has, in the context of courses offered by the Beshara School, been involved, both in the UK and Australia, in residential courses for students of Ibn Arabi.

His book Ibn ʿArabi and Modern Thought - The history of taking metaphysics seriously was issued by Anqa Publishing.

Articles by Peter Coates

Ibn Arabi and Modern Thought

Podcasts by Peter Coates

By Way of Essential Meaning

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.

Podcasts by Omer Colakoglu

Gabriel’s Descension to Prophets, Particularly the Prophet Muhammad, in Radiantly Beautiful Human Forms rather than in its Own Angelic Grandeur

Julian Cook holds a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has made a major contribution to the delivery and development of the online catalogue of Society's Archive Project, and developed unique methods for the comparison of manuscripts which have been the foundation for resolving longstanding editorial problems in the Diwan and other works of Ibn 'Arabi.

Articles by Julian Cook

Six Printed Editions of al-Futūḥāt al Makkīyah – A Brief Survey | with Claude Addas

The Great Dīwān and its offspring: The collection and dispersion of Ibn 'Arabī's poetry| with Stephen Hirtenstein

The library list of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī | with Stephen Hirtenstein

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).

Voices of Islam (Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2007, 5 volumes) is a comprehensive introduction to Islamic religion, thought, life and civilization includes chapters by 50 Muslim authors, including many of the premier scholars of Islamic Studies.

Dr. Cornell’s interests cover the entire spectrum of Islamic thought from Sufism to theology and Islamic law. He 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 several years, he has been a key participant the Building Bridges Seminars hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

http://mesas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/cornell_vincent.html [/]

Articles by Vincent Cornell

Practical Sufism – An Akbarian Foundation for a Liberal Theology of Difference

Podcasts by Vincent Cornell

Building an Akbarian Tradition for the New Millenium: Toward a New Theology of Difference

Dr. Ann Coxon has been associated with the Society for many years and was the Fellows’ Representative of the Ibn 'Arabi Society  in 2005. She had an international childhood exposed to many religious faiths, and was educated in convent schools. She is a Consultant Physician and Neurologist in full time Medical Practice in London. 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. Ann describes herself as being an “unconventional Muslim” and believes “each person seeks and finds their own spiritual path.” The first time she went on Hajj she was one of the pilgrims from the UK being followed by television.

Podcasts by Ann Coxon

Trying to Find the Path of Ibn Arabi in 21st Century London

Caner Dagli is currently an associate professor in the Religious Studies department at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA. He specializes in Qur'anic studies, interfaith dialogue, and philosophy.

Born in the United States, Dagli is of Ciracassian descent and has done fieldwork in Turkey. He also spent a year working as special advisor for interfaith affairs to the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan from 2006 to 2007. Among his works are the HarperCollins Study Quran (2015, edited with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E.B. Lumbard, and Mohammed Rustom) and The Ringstones of Wisdom (2004), a translation of Ibn 'Arabi's Fusus al-hikam .

Articles by Caner Dagli

The Time of Science and the Sufi Science of Time

Podcasts by Caner Dagli

The Levels of the Soul and the Levels of Time

Maria Dakake researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She contributed to  a major collaborative project to produce the first HarperCollins Study Quran, which comprises a verse-by-verse commentary on the Quranic text (2015). She is also currently working with Daniel Madigan on a co-edited volume, The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an, due to be published in 2021, and is working independently on a monograph on the concept of religion as a universal phenomenon in the Quran and Islamic intellectual tradition.

https://religious.gmu.edu/people/mdakakem

Podcasts and Videos by Maria Dakake

Maryam: Pious Woman, Saint or Prophet?

David Darling is an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He has performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin and Spyro Gyra and has released several solo albums.

In 1986, Darling joined Young Audiences, an organisation that seeks to educate children about music and the arts through school programs. In the same year, he founded Music for People, which seeks to encourage self-expression through musical improvisation.

In May 2008, he became part of a collaboration of music teacher and performers offering a training program in holistic and intercultural approaches to healing with sound and music at the New York Open Center Sound and Music School.

Podcasts by David Darling

Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World

Rumi’s Community: Celebrating the Eternal Rumi with Poetry and Music

Interview on WBAI Radio

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.

https://www.barakainstitute.org/tag/robert-darr/

Podcasts and Videos by Robert Darr

Waking to the Embrace: Applying Ibn Arabi’s Teachings on Embodiment

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shiʿi Heritage Series.

Podcasts and Videos by Maria De Cillis

Ibn Arabi on Free Will and Predestination: Between Philosophy and Mysticism

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. He is currently teaching professions on Sufism history, orientalism, Sufi tafsir as a professor in Sufism.

https://ilahiyat.marmara.edu.tr/bolumler/temel-islam-bilimleri/tasavvuf/profdr-suleyman-derin/ [/]

Podcasts by Suleyman Derin

Whoever Loses Himself Finds Me, and Whoever Finds Me Never Loses Me Again

Niels Detert has been a long-time student of Ibn Arabi under the umbrella of the Beshara School. He works as a Consultant Neuropsychologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Since 2007 he has been involved in developing the application of mindfulness techniques to helping his patients and other people with long-term medical problems.

https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/mindfulness-meditation-for-neurological-conditions/ [/]

Podcasts by Niels Detert

Unified Vision, Unified 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.

Podcasts by Ahmed Eissawi

Recitation of Ibn Arabi’s Poetry in Arabic and English

Articles by Jereer El-Moore

The Occult Tradition of the Tarot in Tangency with Ibn Arabi’s Life and Teachings | Part I (PDF)

The Occult Tradition of the Tarot in Tangency with Ibn Arabi’s Life and Teachings | Part II (PDF)

Gerald T. Elmore, received his Ph.D. in Arabic-Islamic Studies at Yale University. Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-'Arabi's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon, his meticulous translation of the 'Anqā' mughrib, was published by Brill in 1998.

Articles by Gerald Elmore

Ibn Arabi’s “Book of the Fabulous Gryphon” (Anqa Mughrib)

Ibn Arabi’s Testament on the Mantle of Initiation (al-Khirqah) (PDF)

Four Texts of Ibn Arabi on the Creative Self-Manifestation of the Divine Names (PDF)

The Alchemical Marriage of Intellect and Soul

A Selection of Texts on the Theme of Praise from some Gnomic Works by Ibn Arabi

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 book Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003) has received several international awards, including the Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement (Cairo, 2004), and another of his books has been awarded the Farabi International Award in the Humanities and Islamic Studies by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (2008).

He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-editor of Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). 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). He is a co-editor of the “Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks” series at the University of North Carolina Press.

https://religion.unc.edu/_people/full-time-faculty/ernst/ [/]

Articles by Carl Ernst

The Man Without Attributes: Ibn Arabi’s Interpretation of Abu Yazid al-Bistami

Podcasts by Carl Ernst

A Hindu Commentator on Ibn Arabi

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on Ibn Arabi and Modernity

Jaume Flaquer, a Jesuit, is coordinator of the Theological Area of Cristianismei Justícia and professor in the Theology Faculty of Catalunya. He has a degree in Philosophy from the Universitat de Barcelona, a degree in Theology from the Centre Sèvres of Paris, and a PhD in Islamic Studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études of Sorbonne with a thesis on the Sufi master Ibn Arabi.

https://www.iscreb.org/es/iscreb/profesorado-no-estable/dr-jaume-flaquer-i-garcia/122/55 [/]

Articles by Jaume Flaquer

The Akbarian Jesus: The Paradigm of a Pilgrim in God

Der akbarische Jesus : Das Vorbild eines Reisenden in Gott (PDF, German)

Podcasts by Jaume Flaquer

The Akbarian Jesus: the Paradigm of a Pilgrim in God

Éric Geoffroy is a French philosopher, islamologist, writer and scholar in the Sufi studies teaching at the University of Strasbourg, and in other centers (including the Catholic University of Louvain}. He is a member of the Arab Academy in Cairo. A specialist in Sufism, he also works on the challenges of spirituality in the contemporary world (globalization, ecology). He is president of the international foundation "Conscience  soufie"  – conscientiencesoufie.com. He is a member of several international research groups, such as Kalam, Research & Media  (KRM), and acts as scientific and editorial advisor on Islam (Fondapol , Les cahiers de l'Islam , Religions-Adyan …). His numerous publications in French and in translation are listed on his website:

https://www.eric-geoffroy.net/ [/]

Articles by Éric Geoffroy

Spiritual Realization (al-tahqiq) through Daily Awakening

Podcasts and Videos by Éric Geoffroy

Some Aspects of ‘Supra-reason’ in Ibn Arabi’s Epistemology

Spiritual Realization (al-tahqiq) through Daily Awakening

Dr. Maurice Gloton (1926–2017) was a well known translator of Islamic spiritual works, including the Quran. His innovative translation of the latter focuses on the grammar and syntax of Arabic to bring out the deeper meaning of the book. For several decades, he devoted himself to spreading awareness of Islamic spirituality, notably through translations of works by great figures of Sufism and theologians, and through lectures and television broadcasts.

Articles by Maurice Gloton

The Quranic Inspiration of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Vocabulary of Love

Alan Godlas is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and currently Associate Professor at the University of Georgia. He teaches courses on Islam, Quranic & Hadith Studies, Arabic, Persian and Sufism.

https://islam.uga.edu/profbio.html [/]

Articles by Alan Godlas

Molla Fanari and the Misbah al-Uns: The Commentator and the Perfect Man (PDF)

Denis Gril is a scholar, translator, and writer who teaches Arabic and Islamic studies at the Université de Provence in France, where he has been since 1981. He has devoted himself to the study of the work of Ibn Arabi, but also to the study of sainthood within Islam. His other research interests include Islamic spirituality and its scriptural foundations. His published works include translations (along with commentaries) of works by Ibn Arabi: Le Livre de l’Arbre et des quatre oiseaux and Le dévoilement des effets du voyage. Gril has also translated and published La Risala de Safi al-Din Ibn Abi l-Mansur Ibn Zafir: Biographies des maîtres spirituels connus par un cheikh égyptien du viie/xiiie siècle.

​https://www.saphirnews.com/Denis-Gril-Oser-le-savoir-et-la-foi_a25902.html [/]

Articles by Denis Gril

Love Letters to the Kaaba – A Presentation of Ibn Arabi’s Taj al-Rasa’il

The Kitab al-inbah of Abdallāh Badr al-Habashi | Introduction

The Kitab al-inbah of Abdallah Badr al-Habashi | Translation

“There Is No Word in the World that Does Not Indicate His Praise”

«Il n’est de mot dans l’univers qui n’indique Sa louange» (French)

The Journey through the Circles of Inner Being According to Ibn Arabi’s Mawaqi al–nujum

Adab and Revelation – One of the Foundations of the Hermeneutics of Ibn Arabi

Adab och uppenbarelse – eller en av grundvalarna för hermeneutiken hos Ibn Arabi (Swedish)

Commentaries on the Fatiha and Experience of the Being According to Ibn Arabi

The Enigma of the Shajara al-numaniyya fī al-dawla al-Uthmaniyya, Attributed to Ibn Arabi

Hadith in the Work of Ibn Arabi: The Uninterrupted Chain of Prophecy

Ibn Arabi in Egypt – The Speech of Things

Jesus, Mary and the Book According to Ibn Arabi

The Quranic Figure of Pharaoh According to the Interpretation of Ibn Arabi

Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020) - A Legacy

Podcasts by Denis Gril

“And He taught Adam all the Names”: the Foundation of the Spiritual Caliphate

Souad Hakim has taught Philosophy at the Lebanese University of Beirut, and Islamic thought and Sufism at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. She is internationally recognised for her many studies and translations of the work of Ibn 'Arabi and she lectures worldwide.

Among her published works is al-Mu'jam al-sufi : al-hikmat fi hudud al-kalimat (Beirut, 1981), a unique concordance of Sufi terminology, illustrated with many passages from Ibn 'Arabi's works.

Articles by Souad Hakim

Ibn Arabi’s Twofold Perception of Woman – Woman as Human Being and Cosmic Principle

The Way of Walaya

Unity of Being in Ibn Arabi – A Humanist Perspective

The Spirit and the Son of the Spirit: A Reading of Jesus (Isa) According to Ibn Arabi

The Paths to God: A Journey through the Spiritual Experience of Ibn Arabi and His Writings

Invocation and Illumination according to Ibn ‘Arabī (pdf)

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila is a Finnish academic researcher, serving as a professor of the Arabic language and Islamic studies at the University of Edinburgh. Before that he was a professor at the University of Helsinki.

He has written many popular books on Islamic culture, history and poetry. Hämeen-Anttila also translated the Quran into Finnish in the year 1995 and the Epic of Gilgamesh in the year 2000. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/jaakko-hameen-anttila [/]

Articles by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

The Immutable Entities and Time

Podcasts by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

A‘yan thabita and Time

Rabia Terri Harris is an essayist, editor, peace activist, public intellectual, practicing chaplain, freelance theologian and translator. In 1994 she founded the Muslim Peace Fellowship, the first organisation specifically devoted to the theory and practice of authentically Islamic active nonviolence. Today she serves as Director of MPF and Resident Elder at Dar Anwar as-Salam, the Muslim component of the Community of Living Traditions, a tripartite Abrahamic residential peace community located in Stony Point, New York. She is also among the organizers of a new venture in Islamic pastoral care; the Muslim Chaplains Association. Rabia Terri Harris holds a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in the field of Religion, a Master’s from Columbia University in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and a Graduate Certificate in Islamic Chaplaincy from Hartford Seminary. She has spent fifteen years as a columnist and contributing editor at Fellowship, the magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/muslim-woman/rabia-terri-harris-2/ [/]

Articles by Rabia Terri Harris

On Majesty and Beauty – The Kitab al-Jalal wa-l Jamal of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (PDF)

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.

Articles by Stephen Hirtenstein

The Image of Guidance – Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi as Hadith Commentator

Establishing Ibn Arabi’s Heritage: First Findings from the MIAS Archiving Project | with Jane Clark (PDF)

“I entrust to you a bequest” – Ibn Sawdakin | Translation

Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi: The Treasure of Compassion

Selected Major Works of Ibn Arabi

Seleção das maiores obras de Ibn Arabi (Portuguese)

De Volta a Deus (Ibn Arabī 1182–1184) – Capítulo 5 de O Compassivo Ilimitado (Portuguese)

Some Preliminary Notes on al-Diwan al-kabir

The Brotherhood of Milk – Perspectives of Knowledge in the Adamic Clay

“O Marvel!” – A Paradigm Shift towards Integration

The Mystic’s Kaaba – The Cubic Wisdom of the Heart According to Ibn Arabi

Physical Sustenance in Sufi Literature: A Case-study of a Treatise by Abd Allah al-Busnawi | with Hülya Küçük

Malatyan Soil, Akbarian Fruit: From Ibn Arabi to Nyazi Misri

The Prayer of Blessing [upon the Light of Muhammad] by Abd al-Aziz al-Mahdawi | with Pablo Beneito| Part 1, the Introduction

The Prayer of Blessing [upon the Light of Muhammad] by Abd al-Aziz al-Mahdawi | with Pablo Beneito| Part 2, the Translation

Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s al-Nusus | with Hülya Küçük

Names and Titles of Ibn [al-]‘Arabi

Kitâb al-fâna' fi-l mushâhadah, by Ibn 'Arabi | with Layla Shamash

The Great Dīwān and its offspring: The collection and dispersion of Ibn 'Arabī's poetry | with Julian Cook

The library list of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī | with Julian Cook

Malik MS 4263: A Manuscript Case-study

Translations by Stephen Hirtenstein

Kitâb al-fâna’ fi-l mushâhadah by Ibn ‘Arabi

Podcasts and Videos by Stephen Hirtenstein

The Healer of Wounds: Interpreting Human Existence in the Light of Alchemy and Ascension

Reviving the Dead: Ibn Arabi as the Heir to Jesus

Introduction to the “Light & Knowledge” Conference

The Mystic’s Kaaba – The Wisdom of the Heart According to Ibn Arabi

“O Marvel!” – A Paradigm Shift towards Integration

Spiritual Life, Living Spirit – Ibn Arabi’s Meeting with Jesus and John

The Secrets of Voyaging

Victoria Rowe Holbrook is an American scholar and translator of Turkish literature and language. She studied at Harvard and Princeton, obtaining a PhD from the latter in 1985. Her subject was Near Eastern Studies. She won numerous fellowships and research grants in her academic career. She was attached to Ohio State University from 1987 to 2005, also teaching at Bilkent University, Koç University, and Bosphorus University in Turkey.

She is best known today for her translation of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The White Castle, which won the inaugural Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Other translations include: Beauty And Love by Seyh Galip (2 vols.); East West Mimesis: Auerbach in Turkey by Kader Konuk; The Other by Ece Vahapoglu; The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Shop Window by Nurdan Gurbilek; Listen: Commentary on the Spiritual Couplets of Mevlana Rumi by Kenan Rifai. Her own book The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance won the Turkish Studies Association M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize.

(Source: Wikipedia 2020)

https://bilgi.academia.edu/VictoriaRoweHolbrook [/]

Articles by Victoria Rowe Holbrook

Ibn Arabi and Ottoman Dervish Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order | Part one

Ibn Arabi and Ottoman Dervish Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order | Part two

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.

Podcasts by Katia Holmes

The Wisdom of the Heart Unveils the Heart of Wisdom

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. at the University of Chicago (1987), 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). His second book on Aisha al-Ba’uniyya, A Life in Praise of Love, was published in 2019.

http://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/faculty/homerin_t/index.html [/]

Podcasts by Emil Homerin

Joined at the Crossroads: Ibn al-Farid and Ibn al-Arabi in the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–1992) was an extraordinary British monk, scholar, translator and concrete poet. He was deeply committed to what has become known as “the wider ecumenism”, that is, finding common ground between the different spiritual traditions. As well as his grounding within his own Christian tradition, he had a profound understanding of both Islamic mysticism and Buddhism.

Articles by Dom Sylvester Houédard

Notes on the More Than Human saying: “Unless you know yourself you cannot know God”

Hany Ibrahim is a PhD candidate and a 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 obtained an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Lethbridge, and an M.Phil. in Islamic architecture from the London South Bank University. This Fall he is teaching a course on Islam at Mount Royal University, and is author of the book Hallaj: In the Ocean of Oneness.

Podcasts by Hany Ibrahim

Ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics of Love

Angela Jaffray completed her BA at UC Berkeley in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (1989) and her PhD at Harvard University in Medieval Islamic Philosophy (2000). Her dissertation focused on the introductory logical works of al-Farabi. Since finishing her PhD at Harvard, she has focused on the writings of Ibn Arabi, whose work she was introduced to many years ago at Beshara Swyre Farm. She has published a translation and commentary on Ibn Arabi’s The Universal Tree and the Four Birds (published by Anqa Publishing in 2007) and translated Ibn Arabi’s Kitab al-isfar an nataij al-asfar (The Secrets of Voyaging, Anqa Publishing, 2015). Her translations of Garcia Lorca’s “Sonetos del Amor Oscuro” were published in Collected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002).

https://anqa.co.uk/publications/author/angela-jaffray [/]

Articles by Angela Jaffray

“Watered with One Water” – Ibn Arabi on the One and the Many

Unveiling from the Effects of the Voyages : An Introduction to the Kitâb al-isfâr 'an natâ'ij al-asfâr

Podcasts and Videos by Angela Jaffray

Better Living Through Alchemy – Some Secrets of Spiritual Medicine

Worshipping in Three Dimensions: Emigrating in God's Vast Earth

Ibn Arabi on Himmah: The Spiritual Power of the Strong-souled Individual

“Watered with One Water”: Ibn Arabi on the One and the Many

Bahram Jassemi was born in Iran. He obtained his doctorate in Pharmacy at the University of
Tehran. He emigrated to Germany in 1980, where he published many poems and articles on
Persian literature, and later on mysticism. His play in German called “Werden” (Becoming) was published in 2002, and 2003 saw the publication of the first volume in a series on Sufism, Der Weg Der Liebe - Sufismus, Die Mystik Des Islam. In 2008 he was co-author of New Humanism: On the Path to a Humane Social System with Dr Mohammed Djassemi. The book was also published in German. 

Articles by Bahram Jassemi

The Dimensions of the Mystical Journey

Ghasem Kakaie teaches at Shiraz University in Iran. His research interests include Islamic mysticism, comparative mysticism, Islamic philosophy and theology, and comparative theology. His book The Unity of Being According to Ibn al-Arabi and Meister Eckhart won a significant literary prize when it appeared in Iran in 2002, where it has been republished twice. Among his other publications is a translation into Persian of Imaginal Worlds by William Chittick.

Articles by Ghasem Kakaie

Interreligous Dialogue: Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart

Podcasts by Ghasem Kakaie

Interreligous Dialogue: Islam and Christianity, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart

Ibrahim Kalin received his Ph.D. from the George Washington University, Washington DC.

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, appeared in 2010.

Podcasts by Ibrahim Kalin

Temporal and Eternal Time in Ibn al-Arabi and Mulla Sadra

Podcasts by Fatemeh Keshavarz

How Sweetly with a Kiss Is the Speech Interrupted: The Dynamism of Silence in Rumi’s Lyric Poetry

Recitation of Rumi’s Poetry in Persian and English

Interview: Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World

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. His main area of research lies in Sufi thought, particularly in moral psychology and virtue ethics, with secondary interests in comparative mysticism, inter-religious relations and medieval philosophy. His articles have appeared in Studies in Religion, the Journal of Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations, Sacred Web, the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Philosophy East and West, and The Muslim World. He is the author of Repentance and the Return to God in Early Sufism (SUNY, 2018 and  In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought by W. Chittick (co-editor). In 2016, he was the Ken‘an Rifai Distinguished Professorship of Islamic Studies at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University in China.

Podcasts by Atif Khalil

Ibn al-Arabi on The Grammar of Gratitude and the Shirk of Shukr

Pasha Khan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He works on South Asian literatures, including literature in Urdu-Hindi, Persian, Punjabi and Arabic. He received his PhD at Columbia University, where he held fellowships from the SSHRC and the ACLS. His dissertation, completed in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Frances Pritchett, was entitled “The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India” and dealt with romances (dastans/qissahs) and storytelling (dastangoi), mainly in Urdu and Persian. As holder of the Chair in Urdu Language and Culture at McGill University, he is responsible for teaching Urdu language courses, and performing research in the history and literature of the Urdu-speaking peoples of South Asia, and other areas, including Canada.

https://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/people-0/faculty-members/pasha-m-khan [/]

Articles by Pasha M. Khan

Nothing But Animals – The Hierarchy of Creatures in the Ringstones of Wisdom

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). A large number of papers and valuable book reviews can be found on: https://umich.academia.edu/AlexanderKnysh [/]

https://lsa.umich.edu/middleeast/people/faculty/alknysh.html [/]

Articles by Alexander Knysh

The Realms of Responsibility in Ibn Arabi’s al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

Podcasts by Alexander Knysh

The Realms of Responsibility in Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat

Podcasts and Videos by Mahmud Erol Kiliç

“We Sucked Milk From Two Mothers” – Ibn Arabi and Rumi as Co-founders of Ottoman Sufi Thought

If You See Ibn Arabi in Damascus...

Prof. Dr. Hülya Küçük graduated from Atatürk University Faculty of Theology (Erzurum) in 1983. In 2001, she completed her doctorate at Leiden University, Department of Turcology. Today, she is a professor at the Faculty of Theology (Konya). She has researched the history of Sufism, and Turkish history between 1918–1930.

Her publications include The Roles of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle, (Leiden, 2002: Brill); Bektashis in the War of Independence, (Istanbul, 2003: Book); Sultan Veled and Maarif, (Istanbul, 2005: Konya Metropolitan Municipality); Introduction to the History of Sufism Outlined, Revised and Expanded 4th edition (Istanbul, 2015: Ensar); Introduction to Sufism, 2nd Edition (Istanbul, 2015: Ensar / DEM); The Extended Path from Ibn al-Arabi to Women Parents (Istanbul: Nefes, 2016) and Sufism and Medicine. She is the author of many books and articles in Turkey and abroad.

Articles by Hülya Küçük

Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s al-Nusus | with Stephen Hirtenstein

Physical Sustenance in Sufi Literature: A Case-study of a Treatise by  ‘Abd Allah al-Busnawi | with Stephen Hirtenstein

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. Her MA thesis Sitt Ajam, A Muslim Woman Gnostic of the Middle Ages, is to be published by Fons Vitae.

Articles by Zahra’ Langhi

Ajami Mysteries of Sitt Ajam bint al-Nafis: A Feminine Hermeneutic of an Heiress of Ibn Arabi

Podcasts by Zahra’ Langhi

“And My Mercy Encompasses All”: Peace in light of Akbarian metaphysics of Compassion

Selected Readings from the Poetry of Ibn Arabi

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 [/].

Podcasts and Videos by Todd Lawson

Water, Light, Knowledge: Towards an Ecology of Imagination

The Mark of Friendship and the Structure of Sanctity in the Teachings of Ibn Arabi

Selected Readings from the Poetry of Ibn Arabi

Being Human According to the Quran

Consciousness, Imagination and Gratitude: The Inexhaustible Sources of the Self

Ibn Arabi’s Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion

Gracia López 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 época was published in 2018.

Articles by Gracia López Anguita

On the Inner Knowledge of Spirits Made of an Igneous Mixture: Chapter 9 of the Futuhat al-Makkiyya

Videos by Gracia López Anguita

Circular Journey

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.

Articles by Pierre Lory

The Symbolism of Letters and Language in the Work of Ibn Arabi

Podcasts by Pierre Lory

Animal world and Perfect Man: Ibn Arabi and the metaphysics of ecology

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz gained her Ph.D. at the Pavlov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg. She taught for 25 years (1975-2013) at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Sofia University, Palo Alto, California. She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Spirituality and Phenomenology of Religion at the Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, California. Her numerous publications cover a broad range of topics including autoimmune diseases of the nervous system, psychosomatic mysticism and non-dual consciousness.

https://www.scu.edu/jst/about/people-of-jst/faculty/olga-louchakova-schwartz/ [/]

Podcasts by Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi and Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi: A Hitherto Neglected Comparison

Mediating Intimacy: Essential Ibn Arabi for Education and Psychotherapy

Denis McCauley gained his DPhil in Oriental Studies from Oxford University in 2008. His doctoral thesis was published by Oxford University Press as Ibn `Arabī's Mystical Poetics (2012).

Articles by Denis E. McAuley

Some Notes on the Manuscript Veliyuddin 51 | with Jane Clark

“See Him in a tree, and see Him in a stone” – Ibn ‘Arabi’s ultra-monorhyme in comparative perspective

Samir Mahmoud received his doctorate at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is currently Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Lebanese Amrican University.

http://www.mizan.com.au/team-members/dr-samir-mahmoud/ [/]

Podcasts by Samir Mahmoud

Poesis and Prayer in Ibn Arabi

Dr Husam al-Malik is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in Islamic Studies at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), London.

Podcasts by Husam al-Mallak

Ibn al-Arabi and the Postmodern Philosophers: The Return to God After the Death of God

Zachary Markwith has been a doctoral student and instructor at the Graduate Theological Union specializing in early Islamic spirituality and comparative religious studies. He earned an M.A. (cum laude) in Hinduism and Islam at the George Washington University and a B.A. in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also worked as a research assistant for the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the International Peace Project on subjects that include Islamophobia, non-violence, and interfaith dialogue. He is the author of One God, Many Prophets: the Universal Wisdom of Islam (Sophia Perennis, 2013).

Podcasts and Videos by Zachary Markwith

Jesus and Christic Sanctity in Ibn Arabi and Early Islamic Spirituality

John Mercer is an actor and writer, and formerly the Secretary of the Ibn Arabi Society in the USA, and a founding member.

Podcasts by John Mercer

Selected Readings from the poetry of Ibn Arabi

James W. 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 Quran 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 publications include: Openings:From the Qur’an to the Islamic Humanities (forthcoming); Approaching Ibn ‘Arabi : Foundations, Contexts, Interpretations (forthcoming); Ma‘rifat ar-Rūh in Nur Ali Elahi's Knowing the Spirit (2007), and The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Arabī’s "Meccan Illuminations"(2005).

Articles by James W. Morris

Introduction to The Meccan Revelations

Ibn ‘Arabi’s “Short Course” on Love

How to Study the Futuhat: Ibn Arabi’s Own Advice

Hur Man Studerar Futuhat: Ibn Arabis Egna Råd (Swedish)

Ibn Arabi: Spiritual Practice and Other Translations – Overview of the ten following articles:

Some Dreams of Ibn Arabi (PDF)

Body of Light (PDF)

Introducing Ibn Arabi’s “Book of Spiritual Advice” (PDF)

“Book of the Quintessence of What is Indispensable for the Spiritual Seeker” (PDF)

Ibn Arabi on the Barzakh – Chapter 63 of the Futuhat (PDF)

The Spiritual Ascension: Ibn Arabi and the miraj – Chapter 367 of the Futuhat (PDF)

The Mahdi and His Helpers – Chapter 366 of the Futuhat (PDF)

Ibn Arabi’s ‘Esotericism’: The Problem of Spiritual Authority (PDF)

Communication and Spiritual Pedagogy: Methods of Investigation (tahqiq) (PDF)

Rhetoric & Realisation in Ibn Arabi: How Can We Communicate Meanings Today? (PDF)

Listening for God: Prayer and the Heart in the Futuhat | Part 1

Listening for God: Prayer and the Heart in the Futuhat | Part 2

Listening for God: Prayer and the Heart in the Futuhat | Part 3

Listening for God: Prayer and the Heart in the Futuhat | Part 4

Divine Calling, Human Response – Scripture and Realization in the Meccan Illuminations | Part 1

Divine Calling, Human Response – Scripture and Realization in the Meccan Illuminations | Part 2

Opening the Heart: Ibn Arabi on Suffering, Compassion and Atonement

Ibn Arabi and his Interpreters – Overview of 28 articles and reviews in this section

Ibn ‘Arabi and his Interpreters I – Four overviews, description of the following:

Ibn Arabi; in the “Far West” (PDF)

Except His Face: The Political and Aesthetic Dimensions of Ibn Arabi’s Legacy (PDF)

Situating Islamic ‘Mysticism’ (PDF)

Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters — Introduction:
Historical Contexts and Contemporary Perspectives (overview of 28 articles and reviews in this collection)

Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters — Grouping I:
Overviews

Ibn Arabi; in the “Far West” (PDF)

Except His Face: The Political and Aesthetic Dimensions of Ibn Arabi’s Legacy (PDF)

Situating Islamic ‘Mysticism’ (PDF)

“Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters”, JAOS article 1986 (PDF) | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 1 (HTML)

Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters — Grouping II:
Influences in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (all the following 7 articles in one PDF)

Theophany or “Pantheism” – The Importance of Balyani’s Risalat al-Ahadiya

The Continuing Relevance of Qaysari’s Thought: Divine Imagination and the Foundation of Natural Spirituality

Review: La destinée de l’homme selon Avicenne: Le retour à Dieu (maad) et l’imagination by Jean Michot

Review: Kitab al-inbah ‘ala Tariq Allah de ‘Abdallah Badr al-Habashi

Review: La Risala de Safi al-Din ibn Abi l-Mansur ibn Zafir

Review: Manjhan, Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance

Review: Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art

Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters — Grouping III:
Later Muslim Critics and Polemics (all the following 4 articles in one PDF)

An Arab “Machiavelli”? – Rhetoric, Philosophy and Politics in Ibn Khaldun’s Critique of “Sufism”

Review: Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics

Review: Ibn Arabi and the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam

Review: Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazali’s “Best of All Possible Worlds”

Ibn Arabi and His Interpreters — Grouping IV:
Reviews of More Recent Works by and about Ibn Arabi (1985–2002)

Ibn Masarra: A Reconsideration of the Primary Sources (PDF)

Podcasts and Videos by James W. Morris

Beyond Belief: Ibn ‘Arabi on the Perennial Challenges of Realization

Inspiration and Discernment: Ibn Arabi’s Introduction to the Challenges of Spiritual Sensitivity and Judgement

“As for your Lord’s blessings, recount them!”: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Storytelling and Spiritual Communication

Becoming Real: Realization and Revelation in Rumi and Ibn Arabi

Whose calling, whose response? Ibn 'Arabi on Divine and Human Responsiveness

Opening the heart in the Futuhat

The “Instruments of Divine Mercy”

“Whoever knows himself...” in the Futuhat

Kazuyo Murata holds a PhD in Islamic Studies with a joint MPhil in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She has broad academic training in the study of religion, philosophy, medieval intellectual history, and Arabic and Persian literature. Her publications include Beauty in Sufism - The Teachings of Ruzbihan Baqli (SUNY, 2017)

Podcasts by Kazuyo Murata

Perception of Beauty and Ugliness According to Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi

Sachiko Murata is a professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She received her B.A. from Chiba University, Japan, and later attended Iran’s University of Tehran, where she was the first woman ever to study fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at that school. She received her Ph.D. in Persian literature, but shortly before completing her Ph.D. in fiqh, the Iranian Revolution caused her and her husband William Chittick to leave the country. Since 1983 she has taught at State University of New York, Stony Brook. She has been the director of Japanese Studies since its founding in 1990 and regularly teaches Introduction to Japanese Studies, Japanese Buddhism, Feminine Spirituality in World Religions, and Islam and Confucianism.

Her publications include The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (2009), The Vision of Islam (with William Chittick, 2006), Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light (with William Chittick and Tu Wei-ming, 2000), and The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought (1992).

Articles by Sachiko Murata

The Unity of Being in Liu Chih’s “Islamic Neoconfucianism”

Women of Light in Sufism

Podcasts by Sachiko Murata

Ibn Arabi in Dialogue with the Confucian Tradition

Kautsar Azhari Noer is Professor at the Department of Comparative Religion, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta.

Articles by Kautsar Azhari Noer

The Encompassing Heart – Unified Vision for a Unified World

Martin Notcutt came to the UK from South Africa in the 1970s. He was a student at the Beshara School in Scotland, where he was introduced to the works of Ibn ‘Arabi, and has been a member of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society since it was founded in 1977.

Videos by Martin Notcutt

Introduction to Ibn ‘Arabi’s Mishkat al-Anwar

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. Dr 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.

https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/oo4qw [/]

Podcasts by Oludamini Ogunnaike

Love and Happiness, Suffering and Bewilderment: One of Ibn al-Arabi’s anti-systematic treatments of the human condition

Luca Patrizi is part of the University of Turin, Italy, and research fellow at Exeter University, UK.

Videos by Luca Patrizi

Thus Spoke Adam: The Suryāniyya Language in Islamic Esotericism’

George Pattison is Professor of Theology & Modern European Thought at the University of Glasgow, and was previously Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. His most recent publications are The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought: Being, Nothingness, Love. (2019, with K. Kirkpatrick), and A Phenomenology of the Devout Life: a Philosophy of Christian Life, Part I.(2018).

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/georgepattison/#publications,books [/]

Podcasts by George Pattison

Kierkegaard’s teaching on Absolute Dependence

Dr. Shahram Pazouki is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Head of the Department of Religious and Sufi Studies at the Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran, Iran. He received his Doctorate at the University of Tehran. Shahram Pazouki’s publications include: The Sufi Path, An Introduction to the Ni‘matullahi Sultan Alishahi Order (Tehran: 2002) and Mysticism and Art in the Modern Age (Tehran: 2014). He has contributed to many other works. He is the Editor in Chief of Sophia Perennis, a journal of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy, with an online presence.

Podcasts by Shahram Pazouki

Ibn Arabi and His School in Iran: Past and Present

Michele Petrone is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain

Videos by Michele Petrone

The Dot and the Line: Akbarian views on time and the instant

Bernd Rudolf Radtke is a German orientalist and Islamic scholar. After studying at the University of Hamburg (1964–1966), he moved to the University of Basel (1966–1974), where he did his doctorate on the Islamic theosophist Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi from the 9th century. Later he was a professor at the University of Bergen and taught at the University Utrecht. One of his main areas of work is Islamic mysticism.

His publications include The Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism: Two Works by Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (1996) and Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics (1999). New Critical Essays: On the Present State and Future Tasks of the Study of Sufism (2005) includes a translation of Ibn 'Arabî's Risalat al-Anwâr.

An article by Bernd Radkte entitled "The Ascent to God and the Return from Him in Islamic Mysticism", which is an analysis of the Risalat al-Anwâr, can be downloaded here: https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/8radtke.pdf [/]

Articles by Bernd Radtke

A Forerunner of Ibn Arabi: Hakim Tirmidhi on Sainthood

Yafiah Katherine Randall is a post-doctoral scholar in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. Her thesis investigated Sufism among Israeli Jews and Muslims in Israel and its potential contribution to reconciliation and conflict transformation.

https://winchester.academia.edu/YafiahKatherineRandall [/]

Podcasts by Yafiah Katherine Randall

“Your Bewilderment Will Allow You to Arrive at Me” – Finding Beauty in the Midst of Conflict: Ibn Arabi in Jerusalem Today

Bulent Rauf (1911-1987) was born in Istanbul in 1911. He was the grandson of Ismail Pasha, Vice-regent of Egypt, the family having close connections to the Ottoman imperial house. He was educated first at home, where he had a classical Ottoman education, reading Turkish, Arabic and Persian as well as three European languages, and then continued his studies at Roberts College. He attended Cornell and Yale Universities in he USA.

Bulent Rauf devoted many years of his life to the establishing of a body of knowledge based on an understanding of the absolute unity of existence. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Beshara [/] School of Intensive Esoteric Education at the Chisholme Institute [/] in the Scottish Borders. He was first President of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society.

His chief literary work was the complete rendering into English of Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-hikam (“Settings of Wisdom”), incorporating the Turkish commentary attributed to Ismail Hakki Bursevi. He also translated into English (from Turkish), Kernel of the Kernel, by Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1981), and from French, Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi by Titus Burckhardt (1977).

http://www.bulentrauf.org/ [/]

Articles by Bulent Rauf

Extract from the Fusus al-hikam

Concerning the Universality of Ibn Arabi

Union and Ibn Arabi

Wisdom and Wisdoms

Podcasts by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Spiritual and Material: Appearance is the Unsurpassed Protection

Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006) was Professor of Semitic languages at Uppsala University  from 1964 to 1987 and an internationally distinguished research figure. He dealt with problems within both Iranistics and Turkology and pursued further studies within Egyptology, Comparative Indo-European Studies and General Linguistics. His main subject, however, was the linguistic foundations of Semitic Studies.

Articles by Frithiof Rundgren

On the Dignity of Ma: Soem Aspects of the Unity of Being in Ibn Arabi

Mohammed Rustom is Professor of Islamic Thought at Carleton University. An internationally recognized scholar whose works have been translated into over ten languages, he specializes in Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Quranic exegesis, and cross-cultural philosophy. Professor Rustom is author of the award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (2012), co-editor of The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (2015), author of Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat (2022), and editor of Global Philosophy: A Sourcebook (forthcoming).

http://www.mohammedrustom.com/ [/]

Articles by Mohammed Rustom

A Letter to Imam al-Razi

Ibn Arabi on Proximity and Distance – Chapters 260 and 261 of the Futuhat

Podcasts and Videos by Mohammed Rustom

Sanctity and the Song of Life

On Aspiration and Poverty

Akbarian Aphorisms for the 21st Century

Cemalnur Sargut received her BSc in Chemical Engineering from the State Academy of Archi­tecture and Engineering in Istanbul in 1974, and she 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 al­ Rifai, Kenan Rifai and Rumi as well as Ibn Arabi, Niyazi Misri, Shibli, Qunawi and Jili. She is President of the Turkish Women’s Cultural Association (TURKKAD), Istanbul.

http://cemalnur.org/ [/]

Podcasts by Cemalnur Sargut

Living through the Spectacles of Tasawwuf

Giuseppe Scattolin, priest since 1968, Combonian Missionary, has worked in the Lebanon, Sudan and Egypt. He is professor of Islamic mystical theology at PISAI in Rome, and at Dar Comboni (Cairo). He has about 50 publications to his name including books and articles, among which are Esperienze mistiche nell’Islam (2000, three volumes), L’Islam nella globalizzazione (2004), Dio e Uomo nell’Islam (2004), Islam e dialogo (2004), Spiritualità nell’Islam (2004) and The Diwan of Ibn al-Farid (2004, critical edition).

Articles by Giuseppe Scattolin

The Key Concepts of al-Farghani’s Commentary on Ibn al-Farid’s Sufi Poem “al-Ta’iyyat al-Kubra” (PDF)

Michael Sells is a professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is an authority on Ibn al-'Arabi as well as one of the most distinguished contemporary translators of classical Arabic poetry. His books include: Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (Wesleyan); Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chicago); Early Islamic Mysticism (Paulist Press); The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (California); Approaching the Quran (White Cloud); and The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Andalus (Cambridge) as two full translations of Ibn 'Arabi’s Tarjuman al-ashwaq, Stations of Desire (2000) and Bewildered (2018).

Articles by Michael Sells

Ibn Arabi’s Poem 18 (Qif bi l-Manazil) from the Translation of Desires

Ibn Arabi’s “Gentle Now, Doves of the Thornberry and Moringa Thicket” (ala ya hamamati l-arakati wa l-bani), Poem 11 from the Translation of Desires

Selections from Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman al-ashwaq (Translation of Desires)

Podcasts and Videos by Michael Sells

Bewildered – A New Translation of Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman Poems

Selected Readings from the Poetry of Ibn Arabi

Life in Ibn Arabi’s “Ringsetting of Prophecy in the Word of Jesus”

Ibn Arabi's Lyric Mysticism and the Persian-Arabic Love Affair

Interview with on WBAI Radio

The Poetry of Ibn Arabi – Recitations from the Tarjuman al-ashwaq

The Young Woman at the Kaaba – Love and Infinity

Reza Shah-Kazemi is an author who specializes in comparative mysticism, Islamic Studies, Sufism and Shi’ism. He is the founding editor of the Islamic World Report and currently a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies with the Department of Academic Research and Publications, where he is editing the English translation and edition of the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (from Persian). He received degrees in International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter University, before receiving his doctorate in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent in 1994.

https://iis.ac.uk/people/dr-reza-shah-kazemi [/]

Articles by Reza Shah-Kazemi

Jesus in the Quran: Selfhood and Compassion – An Akbari Perspective (Part 1)

Jesus in the Quran: Selfhood and Compassion – An Akbari Perspective (Part 2)

Sa’diyya Shaikh is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research is situated at the intersection of Islamic Studies and Gender Studies. She has a special interest in Sufism and its implications for Islamic feminism and feminist theory. Her book Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender and Sexuality was published by the University of North Carolina Press (2012); and co-published again in 2013 by both University of Cape Town Press and Munshiram Manoharl Publishers (New Delhi). Her areas of research include gender-sensitive readings of hadith, Quranic exegesis and Sufi texts; theoretical and political debates on Islam and feminism; religion and gender-based violence; contemporary Muslim women’s embodied, experiential and everyday modes of understanding Quranic teachings (“tafsir of praxis”). Shaikh has also completed an empirical project focussed on sexuality, marriage, and reproductive choices amongst South African Muslim women.

http://www.religion.uct.ac.za/religion/staff/academicstaff/sadiyyashaikh [/]

Podcasts and Videos by Sa’diyya Shaikh

Ibn Arabi and Reimagining Gender

Intimate Echoes of Self: Gender & Sexuality in Ibn Arabi’s Cosmology

Layla Shamash (1943-2002)  was born and grew up in a Jewish family, of ancient Babylonian lineage, in Baghdad. She was a native Arabic speaker; her father taught her the Qu’ran and she went to a Roman Catholic school for girls - so her education was truly 'Abrahamic'. She left Iraq in order to pursue architectural studies in England. With growing political tensions at home, she secured the safe escape of her family from Iraq. After studying at the Architectural Association School in London, she worked for the GLC (Greater London Council) designing Social Housing, and at the same time she set out on the spiritual journey which would transform her life. She married, and with her husband Khalil Norland and their two children, moved to Oxford in 1981 to take up a teaching post in the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. She also practiced architecture in Oxford and beyond. She inspired generations of architectural students and was much beloved by all who studied under her until her early death. Layla was also inspirational in helping with translations of Ibn Arabi's work, being the only native Arabic speaker in the burgeoning Society Research group in Oxford - though she often said she understood Ibn Arabi better in English than in Arabic!

Articles by Layla Shamash

The People of the Night

Kitâb al-fâna' fi-l mushâhadah, by Ibn 'Arabi | with stephen Hirtenstein

Stefan Sperl 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 & 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.

Podcasts and Videos by Stefan Sperl

Ibn Arabi’s “Doves of the Arak Tree” and its Arabian, Quranic and Plotinian Antecedents

Introduction to the 2017 UK Symposium “Ibn Arabi and the Philosophers”

Ahmad Sukkar was an Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT 2019–20, an associate member of the UCL-led Relief Centre’s Global Associates International Network, and the leader of an online course funded by the EU and Germany and accredited by Lund University. He is a former fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut, and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the American University of Beirut, Imam Bukhari Visiting Research Fellow at the Universe of Oxford, and studio lecturer at the University of Damascus. He worked on award-winning projects in leading architectural offices in the Middle East and the UK, including Zaha Hadid Architects. He completed a Doctorate and a Master of Research degree at the London Consortium (the University of London and the Architectural Association) and a Master of Architecture degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Architectural Association. His academic research and design work received several international awards.

https://mit.academia.edu/AhmadSukkar [/]

Podcasts and Videos by Ahmad Sukkar

The Structure of Divine Light and Human Knowledge

Sara Sviri is a Professor (Emerita) at the Department of Arabic and the Department of Comparative Religions at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Formerly, she taught at Tel Aviv University, at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London and at the University of Oxford and, for a short period, at Ben Gurion University. Her fields of study include Islamic mysticism, mystical philosophy, comparative aspects of early Islam, the formative period of Islamic mysticism, and the mystical wisdom of Ibn al-ʿArabī. She has published many academic articles on these topics, which 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, her comprehensive Sufi Anthology was published (in Hebrew) by Tel-Aviv University Press. An Arabic version of the Anthology was later published by Manshurat al-Jamal in Beirut.

Podcasts and Videos by Sara Sviri

Beyond the Opposites: Identities and How to Survive Them in Light of the Light of Oneness

From the One to the One-another. Mystical ethics in Ibn Arabi and in the Sufi Tradition

Mustafa Tahrali was born in Konya in 1943. He received his undergraduate education in Ankara University, School of Divinity. and went to France in 1967 to work on his doctorate. He completed his dissertation titled Life, Works, and Tariqa of Ahmad al-Rifai in Paris Sorbonne III University in 1973. After returning to Turkey he was appointed as Tasawwuf History and Islamic Turkish Literature teacher at the İstanbul Higher Islamic Institute. He became a faculty member in Marmara University, School of Divinity, Department of Tasawwuf History in 1982. Currently he is part of the faculty at İstanbul 29 Mayis University, Department of Philosophy. His research interests are Ottoman Thought and Tasawwuf Philosophy.

Articles by Mustafa Tahrali

A General Outline of the Influence of Ibn Arabi on the Ottoman Era

Articles by Cecilia Twinch

Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi: The Beauty of Oneness Witnessed in the Emptiness of the Heart

The Circle of Inclusion

Created for Compassion: Ibn Arabi’s Work on Dhu-l-Nun the Egyptian

Podcasts and Videos by Cecilia Twinch

Arriving at the Point of Departure

Refreshing Repose and a Reviving Scent

You Are My Mirror

Podcasts and Videos by Richard Twinch

Introduction to the 2017 UK Symposium “Ibn Arabi and the Philosophers”

Paolo Urizzi is the director of Perennia Verba, Italy

Videos by Paolo Urizzi

The Symbolism of the Two Arcs: some reflections

Podcasts by Gregory Vandamme

The Perplexing Geometry of Being

Nargis Virani is Assistant Professor of Arabic at The New School, University Liberal Studies in New York. She received her PhD in 1999 in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. She studied the Quran with the Shaykh of al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo and holds a shahadah (certificate) and an ijazah (permission to teach the Quran). Her doctoral dissertation, entitled I am the Nightingale of the Merciful Macaronic or Upside Down?, analyzed the mulammaat, the mixed-language poems, in Rumi’s Diwan and she is currently converting this into a book which will also include a translation into English of all of Rumi’s multilingual verses in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Greek and Armenian. Dr Virani’s second book project is tentatively entitled Quran in Muslim Literary Memory.

Podcasts by Nargis Virani

“A Donkey’s Tail With Angel’s Wings”: Being Fully Human According to Rumi

Interview on WBAI Radio

Itzchak Weismann is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of the Middle East at Haifa University. He was director of the Jewish-Arab Center in 2010–2013 and a member of the university Senate in 2012–2014. Weismann’s work focuses on modern Islam and his research interests include the Salafis, the Muslim Brothers and the Sufis in the Middle East and South Asia, religious preaching and interfaith dialogue. He is scientific editor of the “Crescent Series of Islamic Thought” of Resling Press and a board member of the Journal of Sufi Studies. His photo exhibition Travels in the World of Islam has been displayed in various places since 2014. (Source: Wikipedia 2020)

Articles by Itzchak Weismann

God and the Perfect Man in the Experience of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri

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 asrâr al-țahârah” (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. For more information see links below to The Futūḥāt Project

The Futūḥāt Project

About the Project

Futuhat Project News

Quotations from the Futuhat

Articles by Eric Winkel

Abu Madyan’s Child, Per Singular Momenta and the Skull Suture: Understanding Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat

Understanding, and Translating, the Futuhat al-Makkiyya

Ibn Arabi’s fiqh: Three Cases from the Futuhat

Time Is Not Real: Time in Ibn Arabi, and from Parmenides (and Heraclitus) to Julian Barbour

Podcasts by Eric Winkel

“One understands that a journey entails weariness and difficulty” – Circularity, Duality and Compassion in the Footstool

Abu Madyan’s Child, Per Singular Momenta and the Skull Suture: Understanding Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat

An Atlas of Love

“And among them, may Allah be pleased, are watermen”

Osman Yahya (1919-1997) was born in Syria. His university education was at al-Azhar University in Cairo, and the Sorbonne and le Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. He was in contact with and studied under such luminary figures as Georges Anawati, Louis Massignon and Henry Corbin. He stayed for many years in Cairo at the Institut Dominicain d' Études Orientales, while he worked on the first critical edition of the Futūḥāt. He died on 4th November 1997 in Aleppo, where he spent the last years of his life. More detailed information is provided in this article by Bakri Aladdin on jstor.org "In memoriam: Osman Yahia (1919/1997)".

Osman Yahya made two major contributions to modern studies of Ibn 'Arabi:

• Histoire et classification de l'œuvre d'Ibn Arabi, Institut Français de Damas, Damascus, 1964: A two-volume catalogue of works, manuscripts and printed works relating to Ibn ‘Arabi. Although there had been previous bibliographies, the scale and detail of this study made it the foundation for any future bibliographic work, and for 50 years to only reference work.
• al-Futūḥāt al-makkīya, al-Hai'a al-Miṣrīya, Cairo (14 volumes, 1972-1992). A critical edition of the Futūḥāt planned as thirty-seven volumes. The first fourteen volumes were prepared and published in Cairo until the Egyptian Government withdrew its support for the project.

Alongside his research for the Histoire et classification, Osman Yahya established the first edition of Hakim Tirmidhi's Khatm al-awliya (with a French translation), as well as a critical edition of Ibn 'Arabi' s Kitab al-tajaliyat (Book of Theophanies). A passage from the Kitab al-tajaliyat has become very well known beyond the realm of scholarly texts after it was quoted by Henry Corbin in Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi - “Listen, O dearly beloved!”. In a note at the end that passage, Corbin says, “The French translation was established by Mr. ‘Osman Yahya, my pupil and now my co-worker at the École des Haute Études... I have changed only a few words, and to simplify the typography, modified his disposition of the lines.”

Articles by Osman Yahya

Theophanies and Lights in the Thought of Ibn Arabi

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.

Articles by Alison Yiangou

There’s No Time Like the Present!

Podcasts by Alison Yiangou

Ibn Arabi and the Modern Mindfulness Movement

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 also studied at 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.

Podcasts by Nikos Yiangou

Ibn Arabi and Rumi: Teachings for the Modern World

Ibn Arabi, Human Potential and the Postmodern Self

Interview on WBAI Radio

Peter Yiangou was 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 first president of the MIAS. His interest in Ibn Arabi continued since then through the activities of the Beshara School, also founded by Bulent Rauf. He is currently a trustee of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre,

Podcasts by Peter Yiangou

The Globalisation of Consciousness

Peter (Hakim) studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and Ottoman Turkish at Oxford. For a time, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and later ran his own building company. In the mid-seventies he came to the Beshara School at Chisholme as a student, undertaking two intensive retreat courses under the supervision of the late Bulent Rauf.

He was principal of the school from 1984–2015, devoting his life to serving the school and its students. Recently he led the development of new study and retreat courses in both self-enquiry and self-knowledge (“Discovering Unity”), and he continues to lecture and supervise courses worldwide. More recently, he has also developed his skills for working with wood, and now offers courses in Greenwood Chairmaking [/].

Articles by Peter Young

Ibn Arabi: Towards a Universal Point of View

Working Together between God’s Two Hands

Mohemed bin Ali Haj Yousef is a writer and researcher specializing in Islamic thought, especially with regard to mysticism and Ibn Arabi. He studied physics in Syria and earned a degree in physics from the University of Aleppo in 1989 and a Postgraduate Diploma in electronics from the same university in 1990,followed by a  Master’s degree in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge in the UK in 1992. After a period of work in the field of teaching, he studied Islamic philosophy, where he received a PhD from the University of Exeter in UK in the year 2005, where he studied the concept of time in Ibn Arabi’s cosmology and compared it with modern theories of physics and cosmology. He an Instructor in the Physics Department at the College of Science, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

https://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/mhajyousef/ [/]

Articles by Mohemed Haj Yousef

Ibn Arabi: the Treasury of Absolute Mercy

Podcasts by Mohemed Haj Yousef

Ibn Arabi’s View of the Cosmos

Interview on “Science, Health and Healing” Radio Show, Pacifica Radio

The Cosmic Heart: the Heart of the Perfect Human

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 at 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.

Podcasts and Videos by Heba Youssry

A Journey Through Wasl and Fasl: Women and Sexual Relations in Ibn Arabi’s Thought

Seeing the Unseen – On the Nature of the Cosmos

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).

Podcasts by Cyrus Ali Zargar

Bird from the Garden of Meanings: Soul and Speech in Ibn Arabi’s Reading of Jesus

The Poetics of Shuhud: Experiencing and Expressing Human-Divine Beauty