[7][8] Every year, the organization holds a symposium on the works of Ibn Arabi, starting with their first in Durham in 1984.
[7] In 2015, on the 850th anniversary of Ibn Arabi's birthday, the Spanish branch of MIAS held the seventh international symposium on Ibn Arabi's works in Murcia,[9] with further symposiums being held in Oxford and at Columbia University in New York City.
[10] British historian of Islam Mark Sedgwick noted MIAS as a significant and visible overlap between academia and Western Sufism,[7] and Macalester College professor G.A.
Lipton noted the organization's "enormous intellectual impact" through research published by top scholars in the field.
[8] Although MIAS attempted to digitize their archive of manuscripts on Ibn Arabi's works, the organization didn't adhere to the ISAD(G), resulting in a diminished profile for the project.