Religion for thinkers:Meditative disciplines in traditional Islamic spirituality

Islamica Magazine Lecture series
Venue:
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ

Thursday 16 th Feb 2006

Bazaar open from 6.30 - 7pm Refreshments will be served Lecture 7pm-8.30pm

Do you have, or need, any time to think these days? What has Islam to say about thinking and meditation? The Holy Qur'an enjoins mankind to reflect on “the Signs” both around and within us. And Muslim sages have devised disciplines to clear the mind and purify and sensitize the spiritual heart by which alone we may see the Reality beyond our senses' reach.

Speaker Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley is Curator of Persian and Turkish Collections at the British Library, London. He has a doctorate in Persian Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, his thesis being a critical edition and annotated translation of the stanzaic poems (Tarji‘at) of Jalal al-Din Rumi. He has published a number of articles on mediaeval Sufi literature and on Islamic manuscript studies.


The first 50 entrants will receive a gift bag with a complimentary copy of Islamica Magazine and a Siratt calendar for 2006. Event start time is 6.30pm

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