A day conference was held, 30 May 2024
11.00 am to 6.30 pm, on-site and online
Speakers from Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Hindu traditions addressed the topic of “Love in Mysticism”, celebrating the publication of the book Women Sufis and Mystics (Routledge, 2024) by Minlib Dallh.
11.00 am Divine and human love in Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah
by Naftali Rothenberg, Senior Research Fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
2.00 pm Aisha al-Mannubiyya: a Muslim woman Sufi enthralled in divine love
by Minlib Dallh (see above)
Response by Tareq Moqbel, the present HM King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein of Jordan Fellow for the Study of Love in Religion, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
3.45 pm Listening to Modern Artistic Perspectives on Love in Christian Mysticism: Marguerite Porete through the lens of Aline Kiner’s The Night of the Beguines (By Zoom, but with discussion on site)
by Louise Nelstrop, Professor of Church History, the Protestant Theological University, Netherlands
5.00 pm Rabinadrath Tagore: A Hindu mystic writer on love and Sufism
by Ashmita Khasnabish, Lecturer, Lasell University, Newton MA
Love in Religion 