SPRING 2013 COMMUNITY SEMINARS Community Seminars are opportunities for community members to read and discuss seminal works in the same unique manner as our students. Seminars are discussion-based and small in size in order to ensure spirited dialogue. There are topics to pique every interest, and for many participants the discussion-based learning model is an entirely new experience. Please call 505-984-6117 to register for any of the seminars described below. Teachers with proof of full-time employment may enroll at a 50 percent discount. Community Seminars are free to 11th and 12th grade high school students (limited spaces available).
Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi, Divine Flashes Tutor: Michael Wolfe Dates/Times: Four Saturdays, March 23 – April 13, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Cost: $ 140 Love where you may, you will have loved Him; turn your face whatever way, it turns toward Him — even if you know it not. Sufis and scholars of Sufism have often wondered if Sufism’s two greatest masters, Rumi and Ibn al-‘Arabi, ever met. They probably didn’t. Nonetheless, their lineages are united in the person of Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi. ‘Iraqi knew and studied under Rumi; he was also a disciple of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s adopted son and successor. Inspired to bring these two Sufi schools together, he wrote the Divine Flashes, a book that expresses Ibn al-‘Arabi’s startling metaphysical insights in ecstatic Persian poetry reminiscent of the poetry of Rumi.
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