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Beyond the stars: revisiting Abraham in the light of Islam
A talk by Stephen Hirtenstein given at the New York Open Center, 29 February 2008
Increasingly the Patriarch
Abraham is seen as a great source of reconciliation in the three western
monotheistic religious traditions. At the same time he has often been
enlisted on the side of intolerance and exclusivity. This talk focuses
on the universal human nature of the Abrahamic message, as so eloquently
expressed by the Sufi master, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, and the crucial importance
his teaching has for the present era.
The speaker
Stephen Hirtenstein (MA Cantab) has been studying the work of
Ibn ‘Arabi since the early 1970s, when he attended courses at the Beshara
School in Scotland. He is editor of the Journal
of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society and one of the directors
of the MIAS archiving
project, which is building a comprehensive database and digital archive
of Ibn ‘Arabi's manuscripts. He is a founding director of Anqa Publishing.
He has lectured throughout the world and is author of several articles
and books, including The Unlimited
Mercifier (a spiritual biography of Ibn ‘Arabi) and translations
of Ibn ‘Arabi's prayers (Awrad)
and Divine Sayings (Mishkat
al-anwar).
Urfa, in Turkey, probable birthplace of Abraham
Garden amidst flames
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