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Hidden Treasure Seminar Series

We celebrated the inauguration of the Hidden Treasure Seminar Series together with 114 participants from all over the world. Listen and watch the seminar recordings below.

Sufi Studies Network Meetings

• 5 Feb 2021 - Dr Milad Milani (Western Sydney University)
  • "The Nature of Sufism: An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam"
    • audio recording

• 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"
    • video recording
    • audio recording

• 4 Jun 2021 - Dr Banu Senay (Macquarie University)
  • "A Place for Ambiguity in Musical Islam"

• 2 July 2021 - Dr Raphael Dascalu (Monash University)
  • "Jewish Encounters with Sufism in the Late Medieval Period"
    • video recording
    • audio recording

• 6 Aug 2021 - Morokoth So (Western Sydney University)
  • "The Persian-Sufi tradition in the late 15th Century Iran: Lahiji’s commentary upon the Gulshan-e Raz"
    • video recording
    • audio recording

• 3 Sep 2021 - Prof Julian Millie (Monash University)
  • "Making Mystics Public: Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930)"
    • video recording
    • audio recording
• 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"
    • video recording
    • audio recording
• 6 May 2022 - Mohammea Meerzaei (Vanderbilt University & Middle Tennessee State University)
  • "Knowledge is Power: Politics of Mystical Knowledge in the Illuminationist Philosophy of Yahya Suhrawardi (d. 1191)"
    • video recording 
    • audio recording

Audio-visual material

Sufism Audio-Visual Material

Islam Audio-Visual Material

Podcasts

1. Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society
2. Prof. Peter Adamson on Ibn Arabi
3. Interview of Prof. Peter Adamson with Prof. Mohammed Rustom

Social media

Watch our online public lectures and activities on our Academia, MIAS Facebook, and MIAS Asia Pacific Facebook pages.