For this week’s research article, we take a look at James Morris’ introduction to Ibn ʿArabi’s Kunh mā lā Budda li-l-Murīd Minh (What is Indispensable for the Seeker to Know).

Morris Introducing Ibn Arabis Book Of Spiritual Advice

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Starting this week, we will share key research papers by top specialists in Ibn Arabi studies in the West.

We begin with James Morris’ “Body of Light: Ibn ʿArabi’s Account of His Father’s Death”.

Join us next week for more research from Prof. Morris!

Morris Body Of Light

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For this week’s research, we look at a historiography of Ibn ʿArabi studies titled: An Endless Tajalli.

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For this week, I am excited to share with you my latest research article:

The Journey as Destination: Ibn ʿArabi, Derrida and Charles Taylor’s Creative Etymology in Contemporary ‘Social Imaginaries’

The Journey As Destination Ibn Arabi Der

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For this week, I’m excited to share my research:

“Divine Audition in the Akbarian Court: The Metaphysics of Sound and Music in the Meccan Openings” in both Arabic and English.

This paper was eventually reformulated and included in my latest book:

ISTIMĀʿ: The Sound Way & Listening for God

السماع الإلهي في الميدان الأكبري Divine Audition In Akbarian Court

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“Muhammad Ibn al-ʿArabi, whose honorific title was Muhyi al-Din said: ‘Those people [the ancient Egyptians] believed in the transmigration of souls. Therefore, they set the pyramids up as their ʿalāma [signpost], in order to mark the age in which they departed from this world in which they [expect to] return.”
- Al-Qazwini, Athar al-Bilad

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Jesus And Enoch In Ibn 'arabi

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“There is something magical about films. The person you are looking at is also somewhere else at the same time. That is a condition of the god. If a movie actor comes into the theater, everybody turns and looks at the movie actor. He is the real hero of the occasion. He is on another plane. He is a multiple presence.

What you are seeing on the screen really isn’t he, and yet the ‘he’ comes. Through the multiple forms, the form of forms out of which all of this comes is right there.” - Joseph Campbell

“When God provides someone with a love for Him that is like His love for that person, He bestows upon him witnessing and He gives him bliss through witnessing Him in the forms of the things.

Indeed, how vast is the presence of imagination, wherein appears the impossible. Rather, nothing appears in it save the impossible. For the necessary existent, which is God may He be exalted, is above delimitation through images and yet manifests in such forms in this presence!

The fluctuations of the heart are reminiscent of the divine manifestations in various forms!” - Ibn Arabi

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For this week’s research paper, we are pleased to share with you the doctoral dissertation of our resident scholar, Dr. Ali Hussain, titled:

Sainthood Between the Ineffable and Social Practice: Jesus Christ in the Writings of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and Later Sufism.

JesusAndIbnArabi

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