Ibn Arabi is perhaps one of the few Sufi scholars who is both contradictory and controversial: He is both mystical and rational, his works are both loved and hated. Futūhāt Makiyyah and Fushūsul Hikam show how broad and deep his dive into the ocean of love is until it penetrates the deadly trench of spirituality. This time, together with Prof. James Morris (@bostonu) we will scoop up a handful of knowledge from Ibn Arabi to uncover the tension between “religion” and “religious studies”, the stagnation between personal spiritual experiences bound by time-space and universality that transcends culture-language.
