PROGRAM

- Baku historical tour for guests -

10:00  Qobustan Reserve

14:00 Ichery Sheher (‘The Old City’); Shirvanshah Palace

15:00 Visit to Prof. Aıda Imangulıyeva’s memorial

- Opening -

10:30 – 11:00  – Registration

Buta Palace, Conference Hall

 

Opening Session

11:00

1. Academic Mahmud Karimov
2. Academic Vasim Mammadaliyev 
3. Academic Aleksandr Borisovich Kudelin
4. Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr
5. Professor Nargiz Pashayeva
6. Professor Mahmud Erol Kilic

13:00 – 15:00 – Lunch

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I. Session: 15:00 – 17:00

Ibn Arabi and Azerbaijani Literature:
Philosophy and Sufism

Place: Buta Palace, Conference Hall

 

Lectures

Chairman: Academic Vasim Mammadaliyev

1. Prof. James W. Morris: The Contemporary Appeal to Ibn ‘Arabi’s Thoughts 

2. Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasi: The School of Azerbaijan and Its Significance Today

3. Prof. Mustapha Tahrali: Ibn Arabi in Fuzuli’s Poem

4. Prof. Rafael Huseynov: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Search for Poetic and Philosophical Content in Words’ Shades of Meaning

5.  Dr. Cecilia Twinch: No Place

17:00

Vısıt to Heydar Alıyev foundatıon

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II. Session: 18:15 – 19:45

Akbarian Letter Symbolism and Hurifiyya and Ishraqiyya

(S.Suhrawardi – F.Naimi – I.Nasimi)

Location: Buta Palace, Conference Hall

Lectures

Chairman: Professor İlham Mammadzadeh

1. Prof.Tarek Shalaby: From Letter Education to the Cognition of Vahdatul-Vujud

2. Prof. Aliyar Safarli: Nasimi’s Scholarly Biography and the State of Nasimi Studies

3. Prof. Denis Gril: The Cycle of Light According to Ibn al-‘Arabî

4. Prof. Victor Palleja de Bustinza: Ibn Arabi and the “Ishraqî” Traditions: New Views and Old Issues.

5. Dr. Mehmet Rihtim: Ibn Arabi’s Influence on Azerbaijani Sufism and Letter/Number Symbolism in Seyyid Yahya Shirvani Bakuvi

6. Dr. Saadat Shikhiyeva: Ibn Arabi`s Letter Symbolism and “Hurufilik” Teaching

7. Prof. Azadeh Musayeva: Initial Knowledge about Sheykh Niyazi Misri’s Recently Discovered Manuscripts, which was mentioned in the work “Anqa al-magrib” by Ibn Arabi

III. Session: 10:00 – 12:00

Special Session In the Memory of Professor Aida Imanguliyeva

East-West in the Scientific Creativity of Professor Aida Imanguliyeva

Location: National Azerbaijan Historical Museum

 

Chairman: Academic A. B. Kudelin

Lectures

1. Prof. Govhar Bakhshaliyeva: The Role of Prominent Orientalists and Scholar Aida Imanguliyeva in the development for Azerbaijan’s science of oriental studies

2. Prof. İ. B. Lisak: Creative Legacy of Aida Imanguliyeva as a Basis of Dialogue between Civilizations in the XXI Century

3. Prof. Elkhan Azizov: The Role of Professor Aida Imanguliyeva in Teaching the Subject of Arabian Literature at the Oriental Studies Faculty of Baku State University

4. Prof. Vilayat Jafar: Articles of Aida Imanguliyeva

5. Dr. T. B. Yermakova: Contribution of Saint Petersburg’s Oriental Studies to the Research Methodology of Word Religions in the 19-20^th Centuries

6. Dos. Yelena Papçenko: The Role of Scientists in the Processes of Cultural Interactions between East and West

7. Dr. Imamverdi Hamidov: Exploration of East-West Literary Relations in the Arabic Literature Studies of Aida Imanguliyeva

Artistic Performance dedicated to Aida Imanguliyeva: 20:00

Place: “Üns” Theatre

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IV. Session: 9:00 – 11:00

Ibn Arabi in East and in West: Similarities and Differences

Location: National Azerbaijan Literature Museum

Chairman: Professor Rafael Huseynov

Lectures

1. Academic Vasim Mammadaliyev: Muhyiddin Ibnul-Arabi`s Life and Activity, Basic Views and Influences to Islamic and non-Islamic World

2. Prof. Andrey Smirnov: Absolute Knowledge and Knowing the Absolute: Logic of Limitation and un-Limitation in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Thoughts

3. Prof. Shahram Pazouki: The East of Suhrawardī and the West of Heidegger

4. Dr. Anar Azimov: Sartre’s Existentialism and Ishraqiyya: Essay on Comparative Analysis

5. Dr. Afag Asadova: Azerbaijani Literature and Sufism 

6. Stephen Hirtenstein: My Passion is for the Lightning and Its Gleam: Considerations of East and West in the Light of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Teachings

7. Prof. Hojjetolislam Ghasem Kakaie: Ibn Arabi’s and Meister Eckhart’s God: The God of the Religions is Not the God of the Philosophers

8. Dr. Klara Tacikova: Ibn Arabi: Conception of “Unity of Existence” as a Moral Problem of World Order

9. Dr. Jane Clark: Ibn ‘Arabi and Western Science

Coffee Break: 11:00-11:15

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V. Session: 11:15-13:30

Ibn Arabi and Philosophy

Location: National Azerbaijan Literature Museum

Chairman: Professor James W. Morris

Lectures

1. Prof. Ilham Mammadzadeh: About Methodology in the Context of Exploration of Ibn Arabi in the History of Philosophy

2. Prof. Bakri Aladdin: Principal Thoughts in “al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya”

3. Dr. Claude Addas: “Ahla-l Beyt” Conception of Ibn Arabi

4. Prof. Teymur Karimli: Mystic: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

5. Prof. Zumrud Guluzadeh: About the Interpretation of Ibn Arabi’s Philosophical Heritage

6. Prof. Salahaddin Khalilov: Ibn Arabi and Traditions of Azerbaijani Literary-Philosophic Thoughts

7. Dr. Ekrem Demirli: Intellectual Criticism of Ibn Arabi: Knowing God between al-tanzih and al-tashbih

8. Dr. Q.K.Kurmangaliyeva: Integral World View of the Modern World History and Past Heritage

 

VI. Session: 11:00 – 13:30

Heritage of Ibn Arabi and Sufism

Place: National Azerbaijan Historical Museum

 

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mahmud Erol KILIÇ

Lectures

1. Prof. Stanislav Prozorov: Prophet Mohammed as the Perfect Embodiment of Mystic Love for God in the tradition of mysticism

2. Prof. H. Kamil Yilmaz: Ibn Arabi in Konavi’s “Forty Hadis”

3. Prof. Paul Ballanfat: Imagination: A Case Study between Ibn Arabi and Kubrawi Schools

4. Dr. Nasib Goyushov: Basic Aspects of Determining Ibn Arabi`s Model of Thinking

5. Prof. Zaim Khenchelaoui: Amir Abdu’l-Qadir Speaking in the Name of Ibn Arabi

6. Prof. Kamandar Sharifov: Baku Manuscripts of Ibn al-Arabi

7. Andrey Lukaşov: The Ontological Foundation of the non-Islamic Symbolism in ”The Mystery Garden” by Mahmud al-Shabistari

8. Dr. Janis Esots: Cosmic Imagination in the Thought of Ibn ‘Arabi and Suhrawardi

 

** Opera of “Leyli and Majnun”

Place: State of Opera and Ballet Theatre

Time: 17:00

Closing Session

Buta Palace, Conference Hall

Time: 20:00

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