Episodes

Sunday Oct 27, 2013
HoP 147 - Laying Down the Law – Ibn Hazm and Islamic Legal Theory
Sunday Oct 27, 2013
Sunday Oct 27, 2013
The development of Islamic law and jurisprudence (fiqh), and the many-sided output of the legal theorist Ibn Ḥazm.

Sunday Oct 20, 2013
HoP 146 - Philosophy's Reign in Spain - Andalusia
Sunday Oct 20, 2013
Sunday Oct 20, 2013
The flowering of philosophy among Muslims and Jews in al-Andalus (Muslim-controlled Spain and Portugal).

Sunday Oct 13, 2013
HoP 145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazali
Sunday Oct 13, 2013
Sunday Oct 13, 2013
Why did al-Ghazālī judge "the philosophers" to be apostates? Peter finds out from Frank Griffel.

Sunday Oct 06, 2013
HoP 144 - Miracle Worker - al-Ghazali against the Philosophers
Sunday Oct 06, 2013
Sunday Oct 06, 2013
In his “Incoherence of the Philosophers,” al-Ghazālī attacks Avicenna’s theories about the eternity of the universe and insists on the possibility of miracles.
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