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Oriental Journeys
Guided and inspired by the famous traveller Ibn Battuta’s (d.1369) footsteps, in a series of conversations with international scholars and prominent practitioners, the Oriental Journeys Podcast aims to deliver intriguing, historically accurate, relatable, curiosity-provoking and well-researched episodes that open a portal into the world of the East for people who are curious about the past, contemplate the wonders of cities and hunger for the marvels of travelling. Produced by Rey Behboudi and Kate O'Connell with the support of the Ibn Arabi Interreligious Research Initiative, the Oriental Journeys Podcast is now available through the platforms below:
Turning the Pages of The Openings: Seminars with Dr Eric Winkel (2022)
- Session-1 (26 August 2022)
- Session-2 (23 September 2022)
- Session-3 (28 October 2022)
Hidden Treasure Seminar Series (2020-2021)
We celebrated the inauguration of the Hidden Treasure Seminar Series together with participants from all over the world. Listen and watch the seminar recordings below.
Sufi Studies Network Meetings (2021- )
- 5 Feb 2021 - Dr Milad Milani (Western Sydney University)
- "The Nature of Sufism: An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam"
- 5 Mar 2021 - Dr Aydogan Kars (Monash University)
- "Sufis and the Transmission of Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
- 2 Apr 2021 - Dr Kenneth Avery (independent researcher)
- "A Lyric Chapter in 'Attar's Conference of the Birds, With Special Reference to Jan"
- 7 May 2021 - Ashkan Bahrani (Vanderbilt University)
- "Decolonizing Persufilia: Academic Violence in the Study of Iranian Sufism in North America"
- 4 Jun 2021 - Dr Banu Senay (Macquarie University)
- "A Place for Ambiguity in Musical Islam"
- 2 Jul 2021 - Dr Raphael Dascalu (Monash University)
- "Jewish Encounters with Sufism in the Late Medieval Period"
- 6 Aug 2021 - Morokoth So (Western Sydney University)
- "The Persian-Sufi Tradition in the Late 15th CE Iran: Lahiji’s Commentary upon the Gulshan-e Raz"
- 3 Sep 2021 - Prof Julian Millie (Monash University)
- "Making Mystics Public: Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930)"
- 1 Apr 2022 - Dr Abu Bakr Cook (Almiraj Sufi and Islamic Study Centre)
- "Soundness of the Heart: an Analysis of the Unique Qualities of the Qalb-i Salīm"
- 6 May 2022 - Mohammed Meerzaei (Vanderbilt University & Middle Tennessee State University)
- "Knowledge is Power: Politics of Mystical Knowledge in the Illuminationist Philosophy of Yahya Suhrawardi (d. 1191)"
- 3 Jun 2022 - Dr Hakan Coruh (Charles Sturt University)
- "A Conceptual Model of Islamic Ethics in the Medieval Period: A Study of Ījī's (d. 1355) Ethics and Its Commentary by Tashkoprizade (d. 1561)"
- 1 July 2022 - Prof Julian Millie (Monash University)
- "Islamic Critiques of Materiality in Indonesian Reformism"
- 5 Aug 2022 - Dr Vassilios Adrahtas (Western Sydney University)
- "Syncretism and Inter-Religion in Balkan Sufism: The Case of Bektashiyya Tariqa"
- 7 Oct 2022 - Prof Pedram Khosronejad (Western Sydney University)
- "Photography of Sufis and Dervishes in Qajar Era Iran"
- 3 Mar 2023 - Dr Kenneth Avery (independent researcher)
- "From Self-Pride to Self-Criticism: The Ending of Attar’s Ilahinama"
- Respondent: Dr Ashkan Bahrani (Monash University)
- 5 May 2023 - Dr Milad Milani (Western Sydney University)
- "Interpreting Sufism and the Philosophy of Heidegger"
- Respondent: Dr Ashkan Bahrani (Monash University)
- 2 Jun 2023 - Dr Vassilios Adrahtas (Western Sydney University)
- "Prince Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723) as a Historian of Religion: His Pioneering Work on Sufi Orders"
- 7 Jul 2023 - Dr Ashkan Bahrani (Monash University)
- "Occidentalism and Sufism: The Life and Works of Muhammad Baqir Bawanati (d. 1893)"
- 1 Sep 2023 - Dr Dunja Rasic (University of Religions and Denominations)
- "Nightfolk and Night Vigils in Ibn Arabi's Corpus"
- 6 Oct 2023 - Dr Naser Dumairieh (McGill University)
- "Akbarian Sufi Thought in the Hijaz"
- 3 Nov 2023 - Dr Aydogan Kars (Monash University)
- "Prophetic Medicine and Sufi Piety in Medieval Islam"
- 1 Mar 2024 - Dr Faris Abdelhadi (University of Exeter)
- "Shedding Light on Ibn Arabi’s Solar Metaphor: Religious Pluralism"
- 3 May 2024 - Dr Ismail Fajrie Alatas (New York University)
- "Blessed Archipelago: Sufi Geographical Imaginary of Islamic Southeast Asia"
- 7 Jun 2024 - Dr Banu Senay (Macquarie Uni) & Dr Chris Houston (Macquarie Uni)
- "Hiding in Plain Sight: Ottoman Entities and the Re-Perceiving of Istanbul"
- 4 Oct 2024 - PhD Candidate Ali Hammoud (Western Sydney University)
- "Sufi Polemics in the Late Safawid Period"
- 7 Mar 2025 - Dr Mohammad Meerzaei, Middle Tennessee State University
- "Illumination in Light of Ghazali: Understanding Yahya Suhrawardi’s (1155-1191) Epistemology as a Conversation with Abu Hamid Ghazali (1056-1111)"
- 4 Apr 2025 - Dr Dunja Rasic, independent scholar
- "The Akbarian Cauldron: Ibn Arabi’s Spiritual Cuisine and Cooking Recipes"
- 2 May 2025 - Dr Mohammad Amin Mansouri, Central Washington University
- "Sharia, Antinomianism, and Monist Cosmology"
- 6 Jun 2025 - PhD candidate Mahin Wahla, Monash University
- "The Islamic Veil and Politics of (Un)Veiling in Memoirs by Political Muslim Women in the US and Australia"
- 4 Jul 2025 - Dr Aris Widodo, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN), Surakarta
- "Divine Energy in Lata’if Theory: Muhadarah in Indonesian Qadiri-Naqshbandi Sufism"
- 1 Aug 2025 - Dr Joshua Little, University of Groningen
- "The Book of the Cow: A Modern Myth of a Proto-Qur'an"
- 5 Sep 2025 - Dr Vassilios Adrahtas, Western Sydney University
- "Presence-Eschatology, or On the Question of Sufism within the Typology of Islamic Eschatology"
- 3 Oct 2025 - Dr Shamila Aroge, Quaid-e Azam University
- "Modern Global Sufism: A Study of Twentieth-Century Pakistani Sufi, Ubaidullah Durrani (1907-1990)"