Podcasts and Videos
Various Talks up to 2009 – Part 1
Interreligous Dialogue: Islam and Christianity, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart
Ghasem Kakaie
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
“O Marvel!” – A Paradigm Shift towards Integration
Stephen Hirtenstein
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
“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
Malatyan Soil, Akbarian Fruit: From Ibn Arabi to Nyazi Misri
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 “Instruments of Divine Mercy”
James Winston Morris
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)
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 — 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)
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
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 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
“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
“And He Taught Adam All the Names”
Denis Gril
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
Ibn Arabi and His School in Iran: Past and Present
Shahram Pazouki
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
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on Ibn Arabi and Modernity
Carl Ernst
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
The Wisdom of Animals
William C. Chittick
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
Death and the Afterlife (PDF, Arabic)
The Anthropology of Compassion
The Religion of Love Revisited
Ibn Arabi: The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition
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”