Season 2, Episode 2: Dr. Beatrice Bottomley on Ibn Arabi

The second season of Overmorrow’s Library is dedicated to world-building, world-ending, and travel across worlds. Federico Campagna presents a new selection of books that might help us to appreciate the fragility of ‘worlds’, and the art of creating new ones through a particular use of our imagination.

In this episode, Federico Campagna interviews Dr. Beatrice Bottomley from the Warburg Institute in London, on the thought and mysticism of the great Sufi thinker Ibn Arabi, with particular focus on his notion of existence as the double movement of ‘finding and being found’.

Image credit: Muhammad Ibn ‘Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Arabi (D. 1240 Ad): Fusus Al-Hikam. Mamluk Egypt, dated 19 Dhu’l Hijja Ah 797/4 October 1395 AD.