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Talk · Harvard Divinity School · 2015Towards a Muslim Poetics of Nature
95 min
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An hour and a half at Harvard on how the Islamic tradition reads the natural world, and what that asks of us now.

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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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