May 25, 2017
Dr. Salman Bashier is an independent researcher who obtained his doctorate from the University of Utah. His PhD was published in 2004 under the title 'Ibn al-'Arabi's Barzakh: the Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World'. He was formerly a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a Polonsky Fellow. He is the author of several articles on Islamic mystical and philosophical thought in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. His book, 'The Story of Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Others on the Limit between Naturalism and Traditionalism' was published in 2012, and his book (in Arabic) 'A Window On the Unseen: Between Ibn al-'Arabi and Averroes, On Imagination, Conjunction, and Knowledge of the Self' was published in December 2016.
