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Ibn Arabi Universes
May 12, 20157:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.
Presentation of the works “Luz sobre Luz” and
“Miguel Asín Palacios, estudioso de lengua sánscrita y profesor de la
filosofía religiosa de la India”,
on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the mystic and poet from
Al-Andalus.
Casa Árabe and the publishing firms Trotta and Mandala are organizing this event, which will include participation by Luce López-Baralt, author Gloria Maité Hernández, poet and translator Clara Janés, and Santiago López-Ríos, of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Presenting the event is Eduardo López Busquets, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
The two works being presented are related with the dialogue between Arab and Spanish culture, and both make clear references to the mystical universe of Ibn Arabi, whose 850th anniversary is being celebrated this year. To mark this anniversary, Casa Árabe is organizing and cooperating on several events to be held throughout Spain along with MIAS-Latina.
On the mystic poem book Luz sobre luz (Light Over Light, Trotta, Madrid, 2014)
Luce López-Baralt has devoted her life as a scholar to exploring the mystical expression of very diverse authors such as San Juan de la Cruz, Ernesto Cardenal and Ibn Arabi of Murcia. This mystic personal poem book, with a prologue by eminent Persian scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, is an important milestone in her work, because it is the first time that the author has been encouraged to share her own experience with ecstasy in verses which create a dialogue with the most wide-ranging mystical traditions of East and West.
On the book Miguel Asín Palacios, estudioso de lengua sánscrita y profesor de la filosofía religiosa de la India (Miguel Asín Palacios, Sanskrit language scholar and professor of India’s religious philosophy, edition by Luce López-Baralt and Gloria Maité Hernández). (Mandala, Madrid, 2015).
The publishers provide a recount of the discovery of three unpublished books from the youth of Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, making up part of this master’s family legacy passed on to Luce López-Baralt. We explore the Cuaderno de lengua sánskrita (Sanskrit Language Notebook), a handbook from his holographic testament made up of different materials for studying the Sanskrit language, and two others unpublished notebooks -- Historia de la filosofía (History of Philosophy) and the most brief, Historia philosophiae, written in Latin, in which Asín reflects upon the religious culture of India. These unpublished texts allow us to get an idea of how many mixed feelings the future Arabist dialogued with when examining the religions of the East in the early twentieth century.
Luce López-Baralt
Ms. López-Baralt is a university department head and distinguished professor at the University of Puerto Rico, the Assistant Director of the Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language and a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Harvard, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Rabat, as well as others. The approximately twenty books which she has written on comparative Spanish and Arab mystical literature and aljamiado texts have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi and Chinese and have made her worthy of distinctions such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Pen Club Award, the Order of Queen Isabella the Catholic, the Ibn Arabi of Murcia Award, and numerous honorary professorships in both Europe and the Americas.
Gloria Maité Hernández
Holder of a PhD from Emory University, with a degree in Theatrical Arts from the Higher Art Institute of Havana, she is currently a professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures of West Chester University. She is the author of the book La Noche de San Juan y dos monólogos (The Night of St. John and Two Monologues, Instituto Cubano del Libro, Havana, Cuba, 2002) and numerous articles and conferences on literature and mysticism. She has received fellowships from various institutions such as West Chester University, the American Association of University Women and the American Institute of Indian Studies.
The two works being presented are related with the dialogue between Arab and Spanish culture, and both make clear references to the mystical universe of Ibn Arabi, whose 850th anniversary is being celebrated this year. To mark this anniversary, Casa Árabe is organizing and cooperating on several events to be held throughout Spain along with MIAS-Latina.
On the mystic poem book Luz sobre luz (Light Over Light, Trotta, Madrid, 2014)
Luce López-Baralt has devoted her life as a scholar to exploring the mystical expression of very diverse authors such as San Juan de la Cruz, Ernesto Cardenal and Ibn Arabi of Murcia. This mystic personal poem book, with a prologue by eminent Persian scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, is an important milestone in her work, because it is the first time that the author has been encouraged to share her own experience with ecstasy in verses which create a dialogue with the most wide-ranging mystical traditions of East and West.
On the book Miguel Asín Palacios, estudioso de lengua sánscrita y profesor de la filosofía religiosa de la India (Miguel Asín Palacios, Sanskrit language scholar and professor of India’s religious philosophy, edition by Luce López-Baralt and Gloria Maité Hernández). (Mandala, Madrid, 2015).
The publishers provide a recount of the discovery of three unpublished books from the youth of Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, making up part of this master’s family legacy passed on to Luce López-Baralt. We explore the Cuaderno de lengua sánskrita (Sanskrit Language Notebook), a handbook from his holographic testament made up of different materials for studying the Sanskrit language, and two others unpublished notebooks -- Historia de la filosofía (History of Philosophy) and the most brief, Historia philosophiae, written in Latin, in which Asín reflects upon the religious culture of India. These unpublished texts allow us to get an idea of how many mixed feelings the future Arabist dialogued with when examining the religions of the East in the early twentieth century.
Luce López-Baralt
Ms. López-Baralt is a university department head and distinguished professor at the University of Puerto Rico, the Assistant Director of the Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language and a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Harvard, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Rabat, as well as others. The approximately twenty books which she has written on comparative Spanish and Arab mystical literature and aljamiado texts have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi and Chinese and have made her worthy of distinctions such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Pen Club Award, the Order of Queen Isabella the Catholic, the Ibn Arabi of Murcia Award, and numerous honorary professorships in both Europe and the Americas.
Gloria Maité Hernández
Holder of a PhD from Emory University, with a degree in Theatrical Arts from the Higher Art Institute of Havana, she is currently a professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures of West Chester University. She is the author of the book La Noche de San Juan y dos monólogos (The Night of St. John and Two Monologues, Instituto Cubano del Libro, Havana, Cuba, 2002) and numerous articles and conferences on literature and mysticism. She has received fellowships from various institutions such as West Chester University, the American Association of University Women and the American Institute of Indian Studies.
