CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dunja Rašić

As per tradition, no human could hear the music of the spheres save for Pythagoras. Ibn Arabī, however, claimed to have heard this music each time he prayed. My presentation examines how the Pythagorean concept of the music of the spheres has been interpreted and reinterpreted in Akbarian Sufism - with a special emphasis on Ibn Arabī’s notion of samāʿ and the modes of recreating the music of the spheres in Sufi gatherings.
 

Bio

Dunja Rašić earned her Ph.D in Islamic Studies at the Free University Berlin. Her primary research field is medieval intellectual history, with a focus on Akbarian cosmology, philosophical Sufism and the Islamic philosophy of language. She is currently working on her second book, which is focusing on jinn doubles and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.

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