Episodes

Saturday May 24, 2014
HoP 177 - To Be or Not to Be - Debating Avicenna’s Metaphysics
Saturday May 24, 2014
Saturday May 24, 2014
Avicenna’s distinction between essence and existence triggers a running debate among philosophers and theologians.

Sunday May 18, 2014
HoP 176 - A Man for all Seasons - al-Tusi
Sunday May 18, 2014
Sunday May 18, 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.

Sunday May 11, 2014
HoP 175 - Bright Ideas - Illuminationism
Sunday May 11, 2014
Sunday May 11, 2014
The Illuminationists carry on Suhrawardī’s critique of “Peripatetic” philosophy and wonder if they will be reborn as giraffes.

Sunday May 04, 2014
HoP 174 - Leading Light - Suhrawardi
Sunday May 04, 2014
Sunday May 04, 2014
Suhrawardī, founder of the Illuminationist (ishrāqī) tradition, proposes a metaphysics of light on the basis of his theory of knowledge by presence