HoP 186 - To Be, Continued - Mulla Sadra on Existence
July 27th, 2014
Mullā Ṣadrā, greatest thinker of early modern Iran, unveils his radical new understanding of existence.
Mullā Ṣadrā, greatest thinker of early modern Iran, unveils his radical new understanding of existence.
Philosophy in Safavid Iran, and a look back at earlier philosophy among Shiites.
Robert Wisnovsky joins Peter to discuss the enormous body of unstudied philosophical commentaries in the later Eastern Islamic world.
The roots of the Safavid philosophical tradition in some rather ill-tempered debates at Shīrāz.