“Staff in hand”: selected poems of ‘Attar
Saturday 4th June, 2022
19:00 – 20:30 AEST / 10:00 – 11:30 BST
An exploration of a selection of poems by Farid al-Din ‘Attar translated by Ken Avery from the Farsi (Persian).
Contact: markvtemple@gmail.com
Üftade: The Nightingale in the Garden of Love
Weekly from 19th March 2022
Saturdays 18:00–19:00 CDT
Sundays 09:00–10:00 AEST
A reading group for online study of the spiritual poems of Üftade, one of the greatest Ottoman Sufi masters, in English translation from The Nightingale in the Garden of Love.
The 50th Anniversary Beshara Lecture-21
Unity in Humanity? Where Two Hands Meet
Sunday 29th May 2022 17:30 BST
Delivered by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.
Kernel of the Kernel
Weekly from 27th February 2022
Thursdays 16:00–17:30 PST
Fridays 10:00–11:30 AEST
A study of Ismail Hakki Bursevi’s translation of Ibn ‘Arabi’s exceptional treatise for those who undertake the journey with the aim of Union.
Kernel of the Kernel
Weekly from 24th February 2022
Sundays 13:00–14:30 PST
Online study of The Kernel of the Kernel, a selection of key passages from Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi’s Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah, translated into Turkish with commentary by Ismail Hakki Bursevi (1652-1728AD). Translated into English by Bulent Rauf.
‘Truth is One but the wise speak of it differently’
(Rig Veda)
A 5-module course from 8th September, 2021 to 4th May, 2022. Wednesday evenings from 7-8.30pm GMT/BST
This course will introduce participants to four major traditions of human wisdom – the philosophies of ancient Greece and India, Christian wisdom and Islamic Mysticism. As we progress through the course we will explore how these traditions might converse with one another and go on to consider what light these wisdoms have to shed on the issues the world faces today.