Sajjad Rizvi سجاد رضوي Profile picture
@exeterIAIS intellectual historian | Persianate and Shii Islam | mysticism | decoloniality | philosophy in contemporary Islam | Global philosophy

Jul 8, 2020, 6 tweets

A new book published on #IslamicPhilosophy and what the current engagement with philosophies in #Iran tells us about contemporary #intellectual_history and #political_theology 1/

The author Esmail Noshad is a philosopher at Isfahan university and it seems to be based on his #PHD - he has written extensively on the contexts and #political_theology of different phases of #translation_movements in philosophy from the #GreekIntoArabic onwards 2/

Here is a write up about this new book mehrnews.com/news/4949258/تاریخ-ما-بیشتر-ادبی-است-تا-نظری-مفصل-بندی-تئوریک-تاریخ-ایران 3/

And here an interesting piece on the encounter with #philosophy cgie.org.ir/fa/news/217516 4/

And this on #philosophy and the idea of #Iran madomeh.com/site/news/news… 5/

I have also recently written a more modest piece on the #idea of #Iran in the #Safavid context of philosophy that is forthcoming in the series published by @ibtauris #Continuum 6/

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