Schedule
Conference: Friday night & Saturday
The conference schedule is as follows:
Friday, November 4: 6:00pm - 9:30pm
| 6:00pm | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 6:30pm | Keynote Speaker - James Morris: Becoming Real: Realization and Revelation in Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi |
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| 7:15pm | Recitation of Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi poetry in English, Arabic and Persian, by Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ahmed Eissawi and Aaron Cass | |
| 8:30pm | Music by Omar Farouk Tekbilek | |
Saturday, November 5: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Morning Session - Plenary: 9am-12pm
| 9:00am | Michael Sells: Ibn 'Arabi's Lyric Mysticism and the Persian-Arabic Love Affair |
| 9:45am | Mahmud Kilic: "We Sucked Milk From Two Mothers"; Ibn ’Arabi and Rumi as Co-founders of Ottoman Sufi Thought. |
| 10:30am | Pablo Beneito: Ibn 'Arabi's Vision of the Multiple Oneness of the Inner Human Kingdom |
| 11:15am | Fatemeh Keshavarz: How Sweetly with a Kiss Is the Speech Interrupted: The Dynamism of Silence in Rumi's Lyric Poetry |
Afternoon Session - Workshops
Module 1 - 1:30pm
"Where the two oceans meet: the way of the mystic"
From separation to union in Sufi thought and practice
What Dreams May Come: Between Stories and Dream With Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi
Respond to the Call from Heaven: Pilgrim's Progress through Rumi's Poetry
Rumi in Spirit
Module 2 - 3:00pm
On the Seriousness of Rigorous Hilarity in the Masnavi
Moses, Ibn `Arabi, and the Voice in the Fire
"I'll meet you there..."
The Kaleidoscopic Postures of Love: Color, Shape, and Movement in the Divan-e Shams
Post-conference Concert: Saturday night
The post-conference concert is a celebration of sufism through music, dance and verse. It is a separate event from the conference and will require a separate registration and fee.
Saturday, November 5: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Rumi's Community: Celebrating the Eternal Rumi with Poetry and Music
Coleman Barks and David Darling perform music, poetry and commentary.
Musical Performance
Live performance by Salman Ahmad, popular guitarist and composer of the musical group Junoon.
Dance
Sakina, a noted flamenco dancer, performs the ritual dance of the Mevlevi "Whirling Dervishes".
"That is how it should be on The Way"
One of Ibn 'Arabi's teachers was Nunah Fatimah Bint Ibn Al-Muthanna of whom he said, "she was indeed a mercy to the world".
She used to say, "Of those who come to see me, I admire none more than Ibn al-'Arabi." On being asked the reason for this she replied, "The rest of you come to me with part of yourselves, leaving the other part of you occupied with your other concerns, while Ibn al-'Arabi is a consolation to me, for he comes to me with all of himself. When he rises up it is with all of himself and when he sits it is with his whole self, leaving nothing of himself elsewhere. That is how it should be on the Way."
