‘Poetry in motion: In the footprints of Ibn Arabi’, Murcia 18-20 Oct. 

‘Poesía en movimiento: Tras las huellas de Ibn Arabi’

A MIAS-LATINA – MIAS SUMMER SCHOOL SYMPOSIUM in English language (except Friday in Spanish).

In conjunction with the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society UK & MIAS Education

Dates:  18^th (Friday), 19^th (Saturday) & 20^th (Sunday) October 2024

Programme / Programa

Friday 18, 5 p.m. Guided visit (in English) to the Museo Santa Clara (associated with Ibn Mardanish).

CITY MUSEUM / MUSEO DE LA CIUDAD de Murcia (All sessions take place in the Salón de Actos of the Museo de la Ciudadunless otherwise specified in the programme). Plaza Agustinas, 7, 30005 Murcia.

Viernes 18 Tarde (sesión en español) / Friday 18 Evening, 6 p.m. (in Spanish)

El camino de la poesía en Ibn Arabi: Concierto-recital de música sufí y poesía de Ibn Arabi de Murcia, a cargo de Ignacio Béjar  y Pablo Beneito (UMU, presentación, traducción de textos y lectura).

Concert-recital of Sufi music and poetry by Ibn Arabi of Murcia, by Ignacio Béjar and Pablo Beneito (UMU, translation of texts and reading).

Abierto a todos los públicos.

Saturday 19 Morning

10:00 – Welcoming and inscriptions. Musical interludes with Ignacio Béjar.

First session. ‘Inspirations’. Talks from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

10: 15 – Opening by Richard Twinch (MIAS-UK) and Pablo Beneito (UMU, MIAS-Latina).

10:30 – Fabrizio Boscaglia (Univ. Lusófona de Lisboa, MIAS-Latina/Portugal): Ibn Arabi and the Path of Saudade.

11:00 Cecilia Twinch (MIAS-UK): Inspirations ‘from behind the door’.

11:30 Questions and sharing.

12:00 Coffee break.

12:30 Amina González (UMU, MIAS-Latina): On Direct Divine Speach (fahwâniyya) in Ibn Arabi’s ‘Book of the Real’ (Kitàb al-Haqq).

13:00 Omar Zein (MIAS-Latina/Italy) – The Symbol and the Symbolised: Traditional Symbolism in Art and Poetry.

13:30 Questions and sharing.

14:00- Lunch time.

Saturday 19 afternoon

4 p.m. Alternative guided visit (in English) to the Museo Santa Clara (associated with Ibn Mardanish).

Second session (Museo de la Ciudad). ‘Creative Encounters with Ibn Arabi’: Talks and music, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

17:00 – Federico Salvaggio (Univ. Udine, MIAS-Latina/Italy): Ibn Arabi and the Sufi Path of Language.

17:30 – Ana Ludovico (MIAS Education): The Lam-Alif and the garment of opposites in Ibn Arabi.

18:00 – Questions and sharing.

Concierto / Concert of Sufi Music

18:30-20:00 Concert and Poetry with Nükhet Kardam & Friends and the Sufi Music of Ignacio Béjar (Ney, ‘ud, rebab, soprano saxophone, Turkish clarinet, lyre, voice, harmonium, diphonic singing. Traditional Sufi music from Turkey and personal compositions of Sufi inspiration with accompaniment of different instruments from the East and the Mediterranean).

Ignacio Béjar: Ney, ‘ud, rebab, saxo soprano, clarinete turco, lira, voz, harmonium, canto difónico. Música tradicional sufí de Turquía y composiciones propias de inspiración sufí con acompañamiento de diferentes instrumentos de Oriente y del Mediterráneo.

Concierto abierto al público general.

Sunday 20 morning

‘At the Murcia of Ibn Arabi’. Walking tour of the old city with Pablo and Amina, including visits to:

10:00 –Madina Mursiya  (Plaza de Santa Eulalia)

10:30 –San Juan de Dios (associated with Ibn Mardanish),

and the Cathedral (on the site of the old Friday mosque).

Musical interludes during the tour with Ignacio Béjar.

Museo de la Ciudad:

12:00 Nükhet Kardam: Poetry and music.

12:30 Poetry Worshop with Nükhet Kardam & Friends (Ana Ludovico, Yafiah Katherine Randall and Richard Twinch).

13:30 Musical interlude with Ignacio Béjar.

14:00 Lunch time.

Sunday afternoon

From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location to be confirmed. Third session: ‘A journey in the poetic footprints of Ibn Arabi’.

17:00 Pablo Beneito (UMU, MIAS-Latina): The Path of Poetry in Ibn Arabi.

17:30 Questions and sharing.

17:45 Tea time.

18:30 Marco Golfetto (Università di Milano): To confirm.

19:00 Richard Twinch (MIAS-UK): Becoming poetry.

19:30 Questions and sharing.

20:00 Conclusions and closure.

Booking via Eventbrite

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Los miembros de MIAS-Latina no necesitan inscripción y podrán solicitar presencialmente dos números gratuitos de la revista El Azufre Rojo.

Dirección académica/Academic direction: Ana Ludovico, Richard Twinch & Pablo Beneito.

Organizan/Organized by: MIAS-Latina, MIAS-UK & MIAS Education.