Thus Spoke Adam

Thus Spoke Adam

Author: Selected speakers September 26, 2022 Duration: 35:03
Luca Patrizi is part of the University of Turin, Italy, and research fellow at Exeter University, UK.

The Ibn 'Arabi Society podcast offers a deep and nuanced exploration into the life, work, and enduring legacy of the 13th-century Andalusian mystic and philosopher, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi. This series presents a curated selection of talks from the Society's annual symposia, featuring a diverse range of Selected speakers including scholars, translators, and practitioners. Each episode delves into specific themes from Ibn 'Arabi's vast corpus-such as the Oneness of Being, the imagination as a creative cosmic force, and the perfect human-placing his thought in dialogue with contemporary questions in spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Listening to this podcast feels like attending a rigorous yet accessible academic gathering, where complex ideas about the nature of reality, love, and divine knowledge are unpacked with care and passion. You'll hear detailed analyses of primary texts, cross-cultural comparisons, and reflections on how these profound teachings apply to modern life and interfaith understanding. It is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to move beyond superficial summaries and engage seriously with one of history's most influential spiritual intellects. The discussions are richly layered, rewarding both newcomers and those already familiar with Sufi metaphysics, and together they build a comprehensive portrait of a thinker whose work continues to resonate across centuries and disciplines.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 181

Ibn 'Arabi Society
Podcast Episodes
A'yan thabita and Time [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:04
Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (b. 1963) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Helsinki University (Finland). He has published on Classical Arabic literature and cultural history. His latest book is "The Last Pagans of Ir…
Ibn 'Arabi's Joseph: Imagination as Holy Communion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:17
Todd Lawson, PhD, teaches Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. His interests include the Qur'an and its interpretation over time, Islamic Gnosis, Shi'ism and its later developments such as the Babi and Bahai rel…
Appearance is the Unsurpassed Protection. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:14
Venerable Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was born in 1952 in Kham, East Tibet. From 1957 to 1959 he fled from Tibet with his family before the Chinese Communist occupation. Since…
Kierkegaard's teaching on Absolute Dependence [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:05
Prof. George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University and has published a number of books on modern philosophy of religion. His two forthcoming books are God and Being: An Enquiry (OUP, Septem…
Ibn 'Arabi in Dialogue with the Confucian Tradition [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:29
When Chinese Muslims began in the 17th century to write about their ancestral religion in their native language - that is, Chinese - they produced a body of literature that is a synthesis of the Neo-Confucian and Islamic…
Ibn 'Arabi's View of the Cosmos [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:08
After graduating from Aleppo University (Syria) in 1990, he did a Masters degree in Physics at Cambridge University. After teaching Physics for several years in the UAE, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter…
The Mystic's Ka'ba; The Wisdom of the Heart According to Ibn 'Arabi [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:07
Stephen Hirtenstein is editor of the Ibn 'Arabi Society Journal. He studied at the Beshara School in Scotland, and is co-founder of Anqa Publishing. His publications include a biography of Ibn 'Arabi, "The Unlimited Merc…
The Anthropology of Compassion in Ibn 'Arabi's Futuhat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:58
William C. Chittick, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies in the Asian and Asian American Studies Dept. at Stony Brook, has spent forty years studying Ibn 'Arabi and the pre-modern Muslim intellectual tradition. Among his…