This December, The Unread Book Club turns to Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn Arabi and Iraqi. Zargar’s work is a deep study of how medieval Sufis understood perception, beauty, and the imaginal realm. It asks a quiet but transformative question. What does it mean to see the world as a site of divine self-disclosure, and how does that change our understanding of art, love, and the human form?

Rather than approaching beauty as ornament, Zargar traces how Ibn Arabi and Iraqi understood beauty as something that reveals the Real through form. Their writings insist that perception is not passive. The world is received through the imagination, and everything we see is charged with meaning. It is from this vantage point that Sufi poetry, especially its erotic and ambiguous dimensions, becomes a form of mystical seeing rather than an allegory to decode.

No reading required. Just presence, curiosity, and a willingness to see leadership as a movement of consciousness.

Event Details:

📅 Date: Tuesday, Dec 30th
📍 Location: Zoom
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM EST / 7 PM CST / 6 PM MST / 5 PM PST

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Please note that this month’s session will meet on Tuesday instead of our usual last Wednesday. Be sure to mark the change.