Courses, media and libraries

Run by a learned society; courses combine close reading with creative and contemplative response.

• studied The Meccan Openings: Courses draw on the Meccan Openings. source
• studied Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam: Courses draw on the Fusus al-hikam. source

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Its own pages call it the "Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education", whose courses "offer students an in-depth study of the principles of the unity of being"; listed under its own setting, as none of the others fits (the editor's decision, 11 Oct 2026). Students from Beshara founded the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and Anqa Publishing (its own account). A spiritual-school foundation course: "knowledge, devotion, service and meditation mutually reinforce one another".

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Its own pages call it the "Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education", whose courses "offer students an in-depth study of the principles of the unity of being"; listed under its own setting, as none of the others fits (the editor's decision, 11 Oct 2026). Students from Beshara founded the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and Anqa Publishing (its own account). Reading-and-discussion group rather than lecture: "There is no ‘teaching’".

• studied The Meccan Openings: Selected Futuhat passages, via Bursevi's commentary. source

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As the Society itself is listed (Institutes): a learned society; the talks are by scholars and practitioners at its events.

• lectured on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam: Talks on the Fuṣūṣ (e.g. on its prophets and 'spirit and form') source
• lectured on The Meccan Openings: Talk on understanding the Futūḥāt source
• lectured on The Interpreter of Desires: Talks on the Tarjumān al-ashwāq and its prefaces source

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Includes the series "Philosophy in the Islamic World" and Plotinus/Neoplatonism episodes (e.g. on Ibn ʿArabī, Suhrawardī, Ibn Ṭufayl, Avicenna, al-Ghazālī, Daftary on Ismāʿīlism).

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The Foundation describes itself as guided by a teacher of the Akbarian Tariqa; videos are mostly Urdu study sessions.

• lectured on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam: Sharh (commentary) video series on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam source

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Small independent press publishing translations and studies of Ibn ʿArabi and his school; presents itself as a publisher, not a school.

• translated The Litanies of Sunday: Prayers for the Week (Awrād al-usbūʿ), translated by Pablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein, with Arabic edition. source
• translated The Prayer of the Highest Circuit: A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection (al-Dawr al-aʿlā), listed in the catalogue. source
• edited The Prayer of Effusion: Patterns of Contemplation: Ibn ʿArabi, Abdullah Bosnevi and the Blessing-Prayer of Effusion (al-Ṣalāt al-fayḍiyya), listed in the catalogue. source

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Sufi devotional press: "dedicated to the sacred tradition of Sufism and to the Path of Love"; its Futuhat Project is a single-translator project.

• translated The Meccan Openings: The Futuhat Project: Eric Winkel's complete English translation of al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya, planned in nineteen volumes. source

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University project; the series moved to Brill in 2017 (per the Maxwell Institute's own post).

• translated The Niche of Lights: The Niche of Lights (Mishkāt al-anwār), published in the series, translated by David Buchman. source

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• translated The Rose-Garden of Mystery: Gulshan-i Rāz, translated with commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in the series. source

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An open corpus of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other Islamicate texts in machine-readable form, built for text analysis; not a reading interface.

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• studied The Quran: Word-by-word grammar and morphology of sura 1 (human annotation by the corpus, not ours) source

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• edited The Quran: Uthmani and Imlaei Arabic text of sura 1 with translations and recitations source

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Open web collection of classical Persian poetry; its pages cite their sources at the foot of each poem. Free, no advertising.

• edited The Conference of the Birds: Persian text of Manṭiq al-ṭayr, browsable by section source
• edited The Rose-Garden of Mystery: Persian text of Gulshan-i rāz source
• edited The Dīvān: odes: Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw source

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Greek and Latin primary sources with linked tools; also hosts a small Arabic collection.

• edited Diotima's Speech: Greek text of the Symposium with translation source
• edited The Winged Soul: Greek text of the Phaedrus with translation source
• edited The Sun, the Line and the Cave: Greek text of the Republic (514a is the cave) with translation source
• edited Alcibiades I: Know Yourself: Greek text of Alcibiades 1 with translation source

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Searchable, downloadable classical Syriac texts; relevant background for the Syriac text in the reader.

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A search and browsing platform over thousands of Islamic texts. It uses AI for search and chat; treat any AI output as unverified, and it supplies no grammar or morphology for our texts.

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A large Arabic-language library of books across the Islamic sciences, described by its own site as a free non-profit project. Holds modern editions; check each book page for edition and rights. Rights: it hosts modern printed editions without stating their licences; linked as a reference library, as scholars commonly use it, and nothing from it is reproduced here.

• edited The Niche of Lights: Digital reading copy of Mishkāt al-anwār (a modern edition, with its pagination) source
• edited The Epistle on Sufism: Digital reading copy of al-Risāla al-Qushayriyya source
• edited The Ājurrūmiyya: Digital copy of al-Ājurrūmiyya source

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