Two new reading courses beginning as of August 2025
As the Mull ā Ṣ adr ā course will be finishing soon, as of Saturday, 5 th of August 2025 , I am offering two new sets of back to back courses. i. The first will be a reading course on the Master of Illumination, Suhraward ī, where we will read all of his visionary and allegorical treatises one by one starting with the Treatise of the Bird and ending with the Tale of the Occidental Exile , after which we will begin a careful and complete reading of his Book of the Wisdom of Illumination ( kit ā b ḥ ikmat al-ishr ā q ). ii. The second will be another slow reading of Ibn Arab ī ’s Bezels of Wisdom ( fu ṣūṣ al-ḥikam ). However, unlike the last reading, in this reading we will begin the course with the introductory twelve propositions ( 12 ) of D ā ʾ ū d Qaysar ī’s commentary on the Bezels of Wisdom before launching into the text itself; and unlike the last reading, in this reading we will be including Ḥ asan Ḥasanzādih Amūlī’s 28 th chapter and my own 29 th ch...