38 min
Interview
Philosophical Sufism
Peter Adamson asks him where Sufism and philosophy stop being two things.
About the teacher
Mohammed Rustom
Canadian scholar of Islamic thought (born 1980), professor of Islamic thought and global philosophy at Carleton University and executive director of the Tokat Institute. He works on Arabic and Persian Sufi literature, Qur'anic exegesis and the philosophical Sufism of figures such as Ayn al-Qudat, and teaches it in public courses as well as in print.
Upcoming events
Meet Mohammed Rustom in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
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Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
69 min
Interview
What Is Sufi Metaphysics?
An hour on what the word metaphysics means inside the tradition rather than in a philosophy department.
115 min
Interview
The Sufi Philosophy of Ayn al-Qudat
Two hours on the Persian mystic executed at thirty-three, and on what he understood about love and knowledge.
95 min
Talk
Towards a Muslim Poetics of Nature
An hour and a half at Harvard on how the Islamic tradition reads the natural world, and what that asks of us now.
Path
The wider context.
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Love & remembrance
Sufism
A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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