Om-gnosis Episode 3: Interview with Dr. Muhammad Faruque, part 2
In this third episode of Om-gnosis, the second of a two-part interview, Dr. Muhammad Faruque continues his interview with Dr. Keith Edward Cantú on how Sufi discourses can inform our understanding of self and the body. Dr. Faruque answers questions about diagrams in Sufi texts and resemblance with diagrams in Kabbalah, the interplay of fanā' or “annihilation” and baqā' or “subsistence” in Sufism, the connection between Sufism and occultism and unseen phenomena more generally, Sufi conceptions of selfhood as compared to that of philosophical theorists, and a song by Lalon Sai that references Mansur al-Hallaj in connection with the pronoun “I.”
About Muhammad U. Faruque
Muhammad U. Faruque is the Inayat Malik Associate Professor and a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His award-winning book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. He is the author of three books and over fifty academic articles, which have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous leading, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is also a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant and the Title IV Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education.
Transcript
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