Rédaction Africa Links 24 with ALM
Published on 2024-03-29 11:41:10
Organized at the initiative of the Association for the Progress of Leaders, the Association for the Progress of Leaders (APD) recently organized a debate in Casablanca around two of the greatest masters of Sufism: Ibn Arabi and Rumi. This meeting was marked by the intervention of Faouzi Skali, a Moroccan writer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and expert in religious studies, and Michael Barry, an American writer and professor in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
The first, in its Arabic version, with Ibn Arabi as its leading figure, and the second in its Persian version, with Rumi as its greatest figure. The speakers each presented for an hour the unsuspected convergences that were emerging, always with the same underlying question: why have the works of these two poles of Sufism from the East (Rumi lived in Konya) and the West (Ibn Arabi lived for a good part of his life in Andalusia and Morocco) known for centuries a universal posterity that has never waned? And not only for a Muslim audience. The most widely read poetry collections in the United States, across all literatures, are those of Rumi. Around the world, research centers are dedicated to the so-called Akbarian studies (on Ibn Arabi), such as at Oxford.
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