HoP 177 - To Be or Not to Be - Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics
May 24th, 2014
Avicenna’s distinction between essence and existence triggers a running debate among philosophers and theologians.
HoP 176 - A Man for all Seasons - al-Tusi
May 18th, 2014
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s controversial career sees him adopt and then abandon Ismāʿīlism, team up with the Mongols, and offer a staunch defense of Avicenna.
HoP 175 - Bright Ideas - Illuminationism
May 11th, 2014
The Illuminationists carry on Suhrawardī’s critique of “Peripatetic” philosophy and wonder if they will be reborn as giraffes.
HoP 174 - Leading Light - Suhrawardi
May 4th, 2014
Suhrawardī, founder of the Illuminationist (ishrāqī) tradition, proposes a metaphysics of light on the basis of his theory of knowledge by presence
