Two new reading courses beginning as of August 2025

 

 

As the Mullā Ṣadrā 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, Suhrawardī, 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 (kitāb ḥikmat al-ishrāq).

ii. The second will be another slow reading of Ibn Arabī’s Bezels of Wisdom (fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam). However, unlike the last reading, in this reading we will begin the course with the introductory twelve propositions (12) of Dāʾūd Qaysarī’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 Ḥasan Ḥasanzādih Amūlī’s 28^th chapter and my own 29^th chapter and completion of the Bezels of Wisdom (fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam) as part of the overall reading.

Each course is 65 U$D and will occur on the same day with a two-hour window of separation between them. It is expected for each course to run between eight (8) to ten (10) months. Weekly meetings will be 1hr to 1:45min each time for each course. Supplementary readings to both readings will also be provided for each course. PDfs of all texts will also be provided.

Payments are accepted via PayPal to the email hurakhsh@gmail.com or direct bank deposit. For those wishing to participate, but facing financial difficulties, we can work something out.