Events
Cosponsors
- Center for the Study of Muslim Societies
- Chaar Prahar
- Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
- Columbia Law School
- Columbia Music Center
- Department of History
- The Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society
- Qalam Pakistan Initiative
- Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies
- Sacred Music at Columbia
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Organizer
- Middle East Institute
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- RSVP suggested
The writings of Ibn al-ʿArabi (d. 1240), one of the most influential Sufi Muslim theoreticians of the medieval period, touched all aspects of knowledge in Asia and Africa in the centuries after his death. This workshop will take as its objective a global history of translation and language in both the dissemination and reception of Ibn al-'Arabi's writings through discourse, music, and art.
Program
time3:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
"Light & Beauty" Exhibit & "Translated Desires" Opening Reception
Featured artist: Müjgan Başköylü, Zinnur Doğanata, Kamile Erdoğdular, Elinor Aishah Holland, Behnaz Karjoo, and Nurdan Yeneroğlu | New York Islamic Arts is an artist collective keeping the traditions of islamic art alive in New York. Founded in 2010 when master artist Müjgan Başköylü came to the United States and settled in Rockland County. A master artist of paper cutting, she has been conducting classes in Turkish Illumination techniques since that time. Her students are from many backgrounds, including American, Turkish and Iranian, and currently are all women. Before her move to America, Mrs. Başköylü exhibited extensively and taught many classes in her native Istanbul, in both Kati (paper cutting) and Tezhip (Illumination). She is an inspired and inspiring teacher with a wealth of knowledge and the passion to share it.
time6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Sufi Music: Farid Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Qawwal Group
About the Performance:The Farid Ayaz and Abu Muhammad Qawwal Group is one of the premier Qawwali groups of Pakistan. Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music from South Asia whose roots stretch to the medieval period. Rich in poetic and mystical symbolism, the performance is led by powerful vocalists who loop through multiple verse-chorus sequences in several languages. The ensemble lays claim to a strong musical lineage that stretches back to the Mughal court in Delhi. | Members of Group:Fariduddin Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, Ghayoor Ahmed, Moizuddin Haydar, Mubarak Hassan Haris, Zarar Ahmed, Shah Baleeghuddin, Fawwad Tahseen, Ghulam Mustafa, and Muhammad Shah |This concert is on Day 1 of 2 of the conference.
time9:00am EDT
Welcome, Acknoweldgements, Opening Remarks
Ali Karjoo-Ravary
Columbia University
time9:30am EDT
Sources
Ibn al-ʿArabī on Boredom
Kazuyo Murata
King's College London
Ta'wil and Ishara: The Meaning of these Terms in Ibn al-ʿArabī's Approach to the Quran
Maria Dakake
George Mason University
Ibn al-ʿArabī on Translation
Mohammed Rustom
Carleton University
time11:15am EDT
Legacies
Ibn al-ʿArabī in Peripatetic guise? From ʿiyān to burhān and the epistemological problematic
Rosabel Ansari
SUNY Stony Brook
The Covenant of Alast: When Love Shared its Promise
Marlene Dubois
Suffolk Community College
The Sufi Path of Extraordinary Ordinariness in the Ottoman Novel; The Depths of Imagination
Amer Latif
Emerson College
Ibn al-ʿArabī in Japan: The Life and Legacy of Toshihiko Izutsu (1914-1993)
Atif Khalil
University of Lethbridge
time1:00pm EDT
Lunch Break
time2:45pm EDT
Translations
Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Two Poems of Shaykh Dan Tafa
Oludamini Ogunnaike
University of Virginia
The Heart as Cosmic Creator: Hindu Scriptures Translated through the Lens of Ibn al-ʿArabī
Shankar Nair
University of Virginia
Wujūdī Metaphysics in Chinese
Sachiko Murata
SUNY Stony Brook
time5:00pm EDT
Keynote
Farghānī on Wahdat al-Wujūd in the Four Journeys
William C. Chittick
SUNY Stony Brook