Podcasts and Videos
Boundless Human Potential
Ibn Arabi Symposium, Worcester College, Oxford, May 2011
Consciousness, Imagination and Gratitude
Todd Lawson
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
On the Spiritual Typologies in Ibn Arabi’s Kitab al-Abadila
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
Ibn Arabi, Human Potential and the Postmodern Self
Nikos Yiangou
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 on Himmah
Angela Jaffray
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
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