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Interview · Path & Present · 2024The Sufi Philosophy of Ayn al-Qudat
115 min
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Two hours on the Persian mystic executed at thirty-three, and on what he understood about love and knowledge.

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Philosophical Sufism · Tokat Institute

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.

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