Ibn Arabi’s Creative Imagination: Crossing Borders to Discover the Meaning of Being Human. Collaborative presentation between Language Acts and Worldmaking and the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. This event, originally an online seminar via Zoom, explores how Ibn Arabi’s creative imagination crosses philosophical, poetic, linguistic and artistic borders, and how his ideas continue to inspire contemporary poetry, film, and artistic expression to this day.
Chair Dr David Torollo : Lecturer in Medieval & Early Modern Spanish Studies, King's College London.
Dr Rim Feriani
: Lecturer in Arabic at King’s College London, Educational Director of the Ibn Arabi Society, UK
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Round table Chair: Bharatwaj Iyer
PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; Co-ordinator of the IRH (Interdisciplinary Research Hub) of the Ibn Arabi Society.
Antonella Leoni:
Diploma in Asian Art and the Islamic world (London), Arabic Calligraphy Diploma (Khalil Agha, Cairo).
Professor Nükhet Kardam
: Professor Emerita at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California, USA.
Wafa Al-Turk:
Member of MIAS Education team and Yoga teacher.
Video by Tim Ray