This lecture will focus on Ibn Arabs writings on the black light of the night. We will explore Ibn Arabs notions of the night serving as the source of knowledge, power and protection for the spiritual seekers known as the Nightfolk ( ahl al-layl ) and identify the possible origins and parallels of these teachings in Persianate Sufism. Dunja Rai is a Sufi scholar and the author of The Written World of God (Anqa Publishing, 2021), Bedeviled (State University of New York Press, 2024), The Nightfolk (University of California Press, 2025) and Azrael (Penn State University Press, 2027). Her research interests revolve around philosophical Sufism, philosophy of language, Sufi cosmology and the school of Ibn Arab.