Episodes 181
Avg. Duration 41m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 5.0 (2)
Since Sep 2006
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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This podcast offers a sampling of talks given by researchers, teachers, translators, and lovers of Ibn Arabi, given at the annual symposia, and in online seminars.

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Stefan Sperl: "Different Aesthetics" – A New Approach to Sufi Texts?

Feb 21, 2026 51m

"Different Aesthetics" – A New Approach to Sufi Texts? The topic of the MIAS-Warburg Symposium was inspired by an interdisciplinary research project on Premodern Aesthetics spearheaded by the…

Gregory Vandamme: The Body of the Caliph

Jan 19, 2026 56m

The Body of the Caliph: Corporeal Governance of the Human Kingdom in Ibn 'Arabi's al-Tadbirat al-ilahiyya and its Commentaries In his Book of the Divine Governances for the Restoration of the Human…

Divine Necessity Of The Comprehensive Being: Unlocking Ibn al-'Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam through the Adamic Fass

Jan 01, 2026 56m

This paper explores the pivotal role of the Adamic fass in unlocking the profound metaphysical framework of Ibn al-'Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam. Centering on the concept of the comprehensive Being…

Human and Divine Breaths: Mirrors of Creation, Language and Love

Oct 25, 2025 46m

Ibn 'Arabi states in Futuhat that 'the breath of the creatures comes from the divine breath' or that 'the human breath has the same form as that of the Merciful.' Parting from this idea, a whole set…

The Ultimate Vision of Life: Ibn 'Arabi and the Anthropocosmic Self

Aug 25, 2025 44m

Muhammad writes: This lecture explores the concept of the anthropocosmic self in Ibn 'Arabi's thought, presenting his vision of life as a dynamic interplay between the human being, the cosmos, and…

The Secret of God's Most Beautiful Names

Apr 05, 2025 1h 29m

This is an online book launch in December 2024 in conjunction with Anqa Books (Stephen Hirtenstein) and the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society (Kris Ramlan). Professor Michael Sells gives an appraisal,…

Dissolving into Being: The Wisdom of Sufi Philosophy

Mar 07, 2025 1h 2m

To help bring Ibn 'Arabi's timeless teachings to life for people today, Dickson, in his new book, explores key themes from the Fusus al-Hikam (The Gemstones of Wisdom), a work that conveys the…

The Heart of Azrael: Angelification and Angelomorphism in Akbarian Sufism

Dec 27, 2024 1h

Dunja writes: In Islam, Azrael is best known as the angel of death. The divine unveilings he received led Ibn Arabi to the conclusion that he is also a friend, healer and protector of pious Muslims.…

The Perfect Human and the Greatest Name

Sep 26, 2024 1h 8m

The title for this talk is drawn from the final mysterious book-title mentioned by Ibn 'Arabi in his listing of his own writings in the Fihrist ('Catalogue'). It would be impossible to appreciate Ibn…

Dispatch from the Red Planet: Prophet Aaron’s Paradoxical Persona

Sep 03, 2024 1h 3m

Angela writes: Overshadowed by his younger brother Moses, known primarily for his negative role in the Golden Calf saga, the Prophet Aaron’s importance may seem to some negligible, his status…

Farghānī on Waḥdat al-Wujūd in the Four Journeys

Aug 18, 2024 53m

William C. Chittick is an internationally renowned scholar on Islamic civilization as well as Comparative Philosophy and Religious Studies. He is author, editor and translator of 30 books and…

Wujūdī Metaphysics in Chinese

Aug 09, 2024 16m

Dr Sachiko Murata’s research has included the interrelationships between Islamic and Far Eastern thought, especially in the writings of the Huiru, "the Muslim Confucianists,” who wrote numerous…

The Heart as Cosmic Creator: Hindu Scriptures Translated through the Lens of Ibn al-ʿArabī

Jul 23, 2024 23m

Shankar Nair specializes in Muslim-Hindu interactions in South Asia, Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur'anic exegesis, Hindu philosophy and theology, and South Asian religious literatures, primarily…

Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Two Poems of Shaykh Dan Tafa

Jul 20, 2024 23m

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,…

Ibn al-ʿArabī in Japan: The Life and Legacy of Toshihiko Izutsu (1914-1993)

Jun 05, 2024 20m

Atif Khalil is on the faculty of Religious Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Khalil's primary area of research lies in Sufism, with secondary interests in Islamic philosophy and theology,…

The Sufi Path of Extraordinary Ordinariness in the Ottoman Novel "The Depths of Imagination"

Apr 16, 2024 17m

Dr. Amer Latif is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in comparative religion and Islamic studies. Broadly speaking, his research revolves around issues involved in the translation of cultures.…

Ibn al-ʿArabī in Peripatetic guise? From ʿiyān to burhān and the epistemological problematic

Mar 28, 2024 16m

Rosabel Ansari's areas of Specialization include Classical and post-classical Islamic philosophy; Graeco-Arabic Studies.Her research involves the transmission of Ancient Greek philosophy into Arabic,…

Keys to Decipher Ibn ʻArabī’s Manzil al-manāzil. Ibn ʻArabī's unique Quranic journey in Kitāb Manzil: A mystical correlation of 114 suras with the science of numbers and symbolic ascent

Feb 27, 2024 54m

Pablo writes: This presentation analyses the content of Ibn ʻArabī’s lesser-known work, Kitāb Manzil al-manāzil al-fahwāniyya ("The Mansion that Gathers [the Keys to All] the Mansions in Which Direct…

Ibn al-ʿArabī on Translation

Feb 04, 2024 15m

Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra and…

The Covenant of Alast: When Love Shared its Promise

Jan 04, 2024 21m

Marlene DuBois is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Suffolk County Community College. Her research interests are in comparative religion, Sufism, and mythic narratives.

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