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“Counsel My People”
UK Symposium, Oxford 2019
Qurrat al-‘Ayn: the Maiden of the Ka‘ba 53:19
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Pablo Beneito
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
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
“One understands that a journey entails weariness and difficulty” – Circularity, Duality and Compassion in the Footstool 57:17
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Eric Winkel
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
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
Abu Madyan’s Child, Per Singular Momenta and the Skull Suture: Understanding Ibn Arabi’s Futuhat
Ibn ‘Arabi Counsels His Own Soul: Guidance and Deception in the Ruh al-Quds 43:22
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Jane Clark
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
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