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Overview

Part 1 (1 hour)

• Welcome, Introduction | David Torollo, Christina Boyle, Richard Twinch
  
• Life & thought and its expression in contemporary art | Cecilia Twinch
• The “Theophany of Perfection” read in English and Arabic | Cecilia Twinch and Wafa Al-Turk

Part 2 (1:11)

• Introduction | David Torollo
  
• The Meeting of the Two Seas – Ibn Arabi & Contemporary Literature | Rim Feriani
  Round Table
• Introduction | Bharatwaj Iyer (Chair)
  
• Artwork | Antonella Leoni
  
• Poetry  | Nükhet Kardam
• Poetry Reading  | David Torollo

• Embodying the In-Between: Comparative Reflections on the walī and the Bodhisattva | Hina Khalid
  
• Justice and Harmony in the Fusus Al-Hikam of Ibn al-Arabi | Imam Fode Drame
• ‘Upholding the Balance’: Tilimsani’s (d. 1291) Commentary on the Divine Name al-Muqsit | Yousef Casewit
• Panel discussion | Chaired by Oludamini Ogunnaike

• The Three Great Books: Letters, Elements and Prime Matter in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Cosmogony | Dunja Rašić
  
• A Noble Letter with Multiple Aspects – The letter wāw according to Ibn ‘Arabi, in poetry and prose | Stephen Hirtenstein
• Ibn ‘Arabi’s Alphabet of Prophets, Spirit and Form of the Fusus | Todd Lawson
• Panel discussion | Chaired by David Horsnby

• The Circle and the Compass | Stephen Hirtenstein
  
• The Blessing-Prayer of Effusion | Pablo Beneito
• The Point of the Compass | Jane Carroll

• Structures of ‘two-ness’: equivalence, complementarity and inversion | Jane Clark
  
• The Encircled Alighting-places of the Quran | Eric Winkel
• The Symbolism of the Two Arcs: some reflections | Paolo Urizzi

• The Geometry of Causality and the Unfolding of Destiny | Samer Akkach
  
• The Perplexing Geometry of Being | Gregory Vandamme
• The Alif – the One, the Many and the Beautiful | Rim Feriani

• The Dot and the Line: Akbarian views on time and the instant | Michele Petrone
  
• Tasting, Drinking and Quenching Thirst: From Mystical Experience to Mystical Metaphysics | Alexander Knysh
• The Structure of the Universe as a Network | Gracia López Anguita

• The Ambiguities of Union: Exploring the Relationship between Perception and Reality | Cyrus Ali Zargar
  
• A Fresh Look at Ibn Sabʿīn: The Circular Scale of Transcendence and Mediation | Carlos Berbil
• Thus Spoke Adam: The Suryāniyya Language in Islamic Esotericism | Luca Patrizi

• Qurrat al-‘Ayn: the Maiden of the Ka‘ba | Pablo Beneito
  
• “One understands that a journey entails weariness and difficulty” – Circularity, Duality and Compassion in the Footstool | Eric Winkel
  
• Ibn ‘Arabi Counsels His Own Soul: Guidance and Deception in the Ruh al-Quds | Jane Clark
  

• Better Living Through Alchemy – Some Secrets of Spiritual Medicine | Angela Jaffray
• Love and Happiness, Suffering and Bewilderment: One of Ibn al-Arabi’s Anti-systematic Treatments of the Human Condition | Oludamini Ogunnaike
• Beyond Belief: Ibn ‘Arabi on the Perennial Challenges of Realization | James Morris

• Introduction to “The Alchemy of Love” | Jane Clark
• Ibn Arabi’s “Doves of the Arak Tree” and its Arabian, Quranic and Plotinian Antecedents | Stefan Sperl
• Bewildered – A New Translation of Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman Poems | Michael Sells
• The Healer of Wounds: Interpreting Human Existence in the Light of Alchemy and Ascension | Stephen Hirtenstein

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

• Ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics of Love | Hany Ibrahim
• Worshipping in Three Dimensions: Emigrating in God’s Vast Earth | Angela Jaffray
• Abu Madyan’s Child, Per Singular Momenta and the Skull Suture: Understanding Ibn Arabi‘s Futuhat | Eric Winkel
• Ibn al-Arabi on The Grammar of Gratitude and the Shirk of Shukr | Atif Khalil

• Introduction | Stefan Sperl, Richard Twinch
• Ibn al-Arabi and the Postmodern Philosophers: The Return to God After the Death of God | Husam al-Mallak
• Some Aspects of ‘Supra-reason’ in Ibn Arabi’s Epistemology | Éric Geoffroy
• Ibn Arabi on Free Will and Predestination: Between Philosophy and Mysticism | Maria De Cillis
• Ibn al-Arabi’s Encounter with Ibn Rushd and the Merging of the Two Seas of Mysticism and Philosophy in Islam | Salman Bashier

• An Atlas of Love | Eric Winkel
• Download the accompanying slideshow (pdf 10.9MB)

• Introduction to “Light & Knowledge” | Stephen Hirtenstein
• The Structure of Divine Light and Human Knowledge | Ahmad Sukkar
• Beyond the Opposites: Identities and How to Survive Them in Light of the Light of Oneness | Sara Sviri
• Water, Light, Knowledge: Towards an Ecology of Imagination | Todd Lawson

• Ibn Arabi and Reimagining Gender | Sa’diyya Shaikh
• Animal World and Perfect Man: Ibn Arabi and the Metaphysics of Ecology | Pierre Lory
• The Mark of Friendship and the Structure of Sanctity in the Teachings of Ibn Arabi | Todd Lawson
• “And My Mercy Encompasses All”: Peace in Light of Akbarian Metaphysics of Compassion | Zahra’ Langhi
• Inspiration and Discernment: Ibn Arabi’s Introduction to the Challenges of Spiritual Sensitivity and Judgment | James Winston Morris
• Selected Readings from the Poetry of Ibn Arabi | Zahra’ Langhi, Todd Lawson
• Ibn Arabi: The Doorway into an Intellectual Tradition | William C. Chittick

• Akbarian Aphorisms for the 21st Century | Mohammed Rustom
• If You See Ibn Arabi in Damascus… | Mahmud Erol Kilic
• Refreshing Repose and a Reviving Scent | Cecilia Twinch
• Intimate Echoes of Self: Gender & Sexuality in Ibn Arabi’s Cosmology | Sa’diyya Shaikh
• Waking to the Embrace: Applying Ibn Arabi’s Teachings on Embodiment | Robert Darr

• The Secrets of Voyaging | Stephen Hirtenstein

• Circular Journey | Gracia López Anguita
• Journeying from the Apparent to Absolute Existence – Ibn Sabin | Carlos Berbil Ceballos
• Seeing the Unseen – On the Nature of the Cosmos | Heba Youssry
• The Journey of the Heart | Pablo Beneito
• Arriving at the Point of Departure | Cecilia Twinch

• Bird from the Garden of Meanings: Soul and Speech in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Reading of Jesus | Cyrus Ali Zargar
• Maryam: Pious Woman, Saint or Prophet? | Maria Dakake
• Sanctity and the Song of Life | Mohammed Rustom
• Jesus and Christic Sanctity in Ibn ‘Arabi and Early Islamic Spirituality | Zachary Markwith
• Selected Readings from the poetry of Ibn ‘Arabi | Michael Sells & John Mercer
• Life in Ibn ‘Arabi’s “Ringsetting of Prophecy in the Word of Jesus” | Michael Sells

• The akbarian Jesus: the paradigm of a pilgrim in God | Jaume Flaquer
• Reviving the dead: Ibn ‘Arabi as the Heir to Jesus | Stephen Hirtenstein

• “Your bewilderment will allow you to arrive at me” – Finding Beauty in the Midst of Conflict: Ibn ‘Arabi in Jerusalem Today | Yafiah Katherine Randall
• Perception of Beauty and Ugliness According to Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi | Kazuyo Murata
• Gabriel’s descension to Prophets, particularly the Prophet Muhammad, in radiantly beautiful human forms rather than in its own Angelic grandeur | Omer Colakoglu
• The Poetics of Shuhud: Experiencing and Expressing Human-Divine Beauty | Cyrus Ali Zargar
• Narrative and Mystical Perception: the two prefaces to Ibn ‘Arabi’s Tarjuman al-ashwaq | Jane Clark

• Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi and Muhyi al-Din Ibn ‘Arabi: A Hitherto Neglected Comparison | Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
• “A Donkey’s Tail With Angel’s Wings”: Being Fully Human According to Rumi | Nargis Virani
• Being Human According to the Quran | Todd Lawson
• A Hindu Commentator on Ibn ‘Arabi | Carl Ernst
• The Religion of Love Revisited | Wiliam Chittick

• Philosophers and mystics on the semantics of Being: Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi’s correspondence with Nasir al-Din al-Tusi | Wahid Amin
• On Aspiration and Poverty | Mohammed Rustom
• Self Knowledge in the Practice of the Person-Centred Approach | Dot Clark
• Poesis and Prayer in Ibn ‘Arabi | Samir Mahmoud
• Spiritual Realization (al-tahqiq) through Daily Awakening | Eric Geoffroy
• Living through the Spectacles of Tasavvuf | Cemalnur Sargut
• Ibn ‘Arabi and the modern Mindfulness movement | Alison Yiangou
• “As for your Lord’s blessings, recount them!”: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Storytelling and Spiritual Communication | James Morris

• Trying to find the path of Ibn ‘Arabi in 21st Century London | Ann Coxon

• Rumi’s Community: Celebrating the Eternal Rumi with Poetry and Music | Coleman Barks with David Darling
• Panel discussion | Pablo Beneito, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Michael Sells, James Morris, Mahmud Kilic, Stephen Hirtenstein, Cecilia Twinch, Nargis Virani. Moderator Nikos Yiangou
• Ibn ‘Arabi’s Vision of the Multiple Oneness of the Inner Human Kingdom | Pablo Beneito
• Ibn ‘Arabi’s Lyric Mysticism and the Persian-Arabic Love Affair | Michael Sells
• How Sweetly with a Kiss Is the Speech Interrupted: The Dynamism of Silence in Rumi’s Lyric Poetry | Fatemeh Keshavarz
• “We Sucked Milk From Two Mothers’ – Ibn ‘Arabi and Rumi as Co-founders of Ottoman Sufi Thought | Mahmud Erol Kilic
• Recitation of Rumi’s Poetry in Persian and English | Fatemeh Keshavarz
• Becoming Real: Realization and Revelation in Rumi and Ibn ‘Arabi | James Morris

• Recitation of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Poetry in Arabic and English | Ahmed Eissawi, Aaron Cass
• Pre-conference interview with Majid Ali on WBAI Radio, Columbia University, 4–5 November, 2011 | Fatemeh Keshavarz
• Pre-conference interviews with Aracely Brown on WBAI Radio, Columbia University, 4–5 November, 2011 | David Darling, Nikos Yiangou, Salman Ahmad
• Pre-conference interviews with Aracely Brown on WBAI Radio
  Columbia University, 4–5 November, 2011 | Michael Sells, Nargis Virani

• Consciousness, Imagination and Gratitude: The Inexhaustible Sources of the Self | Todd Lawson
• On the Spiritual typologies in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Kitab al-Abadila | Pablo Beneito
• Ibn ‘Arabi, Human Potential and the Postmodern Self | Nikos Yiangou
• Ibn ‘Arabi on Himmah: the spiritual power of the strong-souled individual | Angela Jaffray, narrated by Cecilia Twinch

• Whose calling, whose response? Ibn ‘Arabi on Divine and Human Responsiveness | James Morris
• Ibn -‘Arabi’s Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion | Todd Lawson

• “He governs the world through itself” – Ibn ‘Arabi on Spiritual Causation | Jane Clark
• Spiritual and Material: Appearance is the Unsurpassed Protection | Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
• Kierkegaard’s teaching on Absolute Dependence | George Pattison

• Ibn ‘Arabi in Dialogue with the Confucian Tradition | Sachiko Murata
• Ibn ‘Arabi’s view of the Cosmos | Mohamed Haj Yousef
• The Mystic’s Ka‘ba; The Wisdom of the Heart According to Ibn ‘Arabi | Stephen Hirtenstein
• The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat | William Chittick
• The Poetry of Ibn Arabi – Recitations from the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq | Michael Sells, Aaron Cass, Taoufiq Ben Amor
• William Chittick | Interview 10/12/09 on the radio show “Science, Health and Healing” with host Majid Ali, MD (WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio) in anticipation of the Ibn Arabi conference in New York, November 6 2009
• Mohamed Haj Yousef | Interview 10/13/09 on the radio show “Science, Health and Healing” with host Majid Ali, MD (WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio) in anticipation of the Ibn Arabi conference in New York, November 6 2009

• Opening the heart in the Futuhat | James Morris
• The Cosmic Heart: the heart of the Perfect Human | Mohamed Haj Yousef
• The spirituality of the heart in the Syriac tradition | Sebastian Brock
• The Wisdom of the heart unveils the Heart of wisdom | Katia Holmes

• Past and Future of Knowledge: the Time of Gnosis in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Writings | Pablo Beneito

• A‘yan thabita and Time | Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

• Interreligous Dialogue: Islam and Christianity, Ibn ‘Arabi and Meister Eckhart | Ghasem Kakaie
• “O Marvel!”: a Paradigm Shift towards Integration | Stephen Hirtenstein
• The “Instruments of Divine Mercy”: from the Path to the Real in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Meccan Illuminations | James Morris
• “And He taught Adam all the Names”: the Foundation of the Spiritual Caliphate | Denis Gril
• Ibn ‘Arabi and His School in Iran: Past and Present | Shahram Pazouki
• Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on Ibn ‘Arabi and Modernity | Carl Ernst
• The Wisdom of Animals | William Chittick

• From the One to the One-another. Mystical ethics in Ibn ‘Arabi and in the Sufi Tradition | Sara Sviri
• Sadr al-din Qunawi and his relationship with Jalal al-din Rumi | Jane Clark
• “And among them, may Allah be pleased, are Watermen” | Eric Winkel
• A Comparative Approach to Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart | Ian Almond
• The realms of responsibility in Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat | Alexander Knysh
• Joined at the Crossroads: Ibn al-Farid and Ibn al-‘Arabi in the Islamic Mystical Tradition | Emil Homerin
• The Globalisation of Consciousness | Peter Yiangou

• “Watered with One Water”: Ibn ‘Arabi on the One and the Many | Angela Jaffray
• Timelessness and Time | Jane Carroll
• “Whoever loses himself finds Me and whoever finds Me, never loses Me again” | Suleyman Derin
• Unified Vision, Unified World? | Niels Detert
• Self-Knowledge and Self-Consciousness in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism | Samer Akkach
• Mediating Intimacy: Essential Ibn ‘Arabi for Education and Psychotherapy | Olga Louchakova
• Temporal and Eternal Time in Ibn al-Arabi and Mulla Sadra | Ibrahim Kalin

• Radical Vision and Universal Religion in Ibn al-‘Arabi | Salman Bashier
• Crossing Borders: The Question of Human Belonging and Ibn ‘Arabi’s Theory of Perpetual Transformation | Elias Amidon
• “As if you saw Him”; vision and best action (ihsân) in Ibn ‘Arabi’s thought | Jane Clark
• Building an Akbarian Tradition for the New Millenium: Toward a New Theology of Difference | Vincent Cornell
• By Way of Essential Meaning | Peter Coates
• Naught but Love | Pablo Beneito
• “Whoever knows himself…” in the Futuhat | James Morris

• Spiritual Life, Living Spirit – Ibn ‘Arabi’s Meeting with Jesus and John | Stephen Hirtenstein
• “You Are My Mirror” | Cecilia Twinch
• The Levels of the Soul and the Levels of Time | Caner Dagli
• The Young Woman at the Ka‘ba – Love and Infinity | Michael Sells