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American translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophy and mysticism (born 1943), Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His translations and studies of Ibn Arabi and Rumi are how much of the English-speaking world reads them, and he has written at length on Islamic cosmology and the school that grew up around Ibn Arabi.
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A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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