Episodes

Sunday Jul 28, 2013
HoP 139 - By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Avicenna on Existence
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Avicenna revolutionizes metaphysics with groundbreaking ideas about necessity and contingency, and his new distinction between essence and existence.

Sunday Jul 21, 2013
HoP 138 - The Self-Made Man - Avicenna's Life and Works
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Despite a tumultuous life, Avicenna manages to become the most influential of all medieval philosophers.

Sunday Jul 14, 2013
HoP 137 - God Willing – the Asharites
Sunday Jul 14, 2013
Sunday Jul 14, 2013
Al-Ash‘arī puts his stamp on the future of Islamic theology by emphasizing God’s untrammeled power and freedom.

Sunday Jul 07, 2013
HoP 136 - Farhad Daftary on the Ismailis
Sunday Jul 07, 2013
Sunday Jul 07, 2013
Peter is joined by Farhad Daftary, a leading expert on the Shiite group known as the Ismā'īlīs.
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