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.

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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Folge vom 18.05.2014HoP 176 - A Man for all Seasons - al-Tusi
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Folge vom 11.05.2014HoP 175 - Bright Ideas - IlluminationismThe Illuminationists carry on Suhrawardī’s critique of “Peripatetic” philosophy and wonder if they will be reborn as giraffes.
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Folge vom 04.05.2014HoP 174 - Leading Light - SuhrawardiSuhrawardī, founder of the Illuminationist (ishrāqī) tradition, proposes a metaphysics of light on the basis of his theory of knowledge by presence
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Folge vom 27.04.2014HoP 173 - For the Sake of Argument - Fakhr al-Din al-RaziThe hugely influential Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī weaves Avicenna and Islamic theology into complex dialectical treatments of time, God, the soul, and ethics.