Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion presented a paper entitled “Mysticism in Islamic Philosophical Tradition: Hindrance to Rationalism or Perfection of Reason” at the Symposium on the Middle Ages (Mystik im Mittelalter Gegensatz oder Vollendung der Vernunft?) at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. Feb. 26, 2014.
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion and co-director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, will serve as a panelist for “The Mystery of Liberation: Finding the Intersection of Faith and Politics,” a community panel discussion on Sunday, March 9. The discussion will take place at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., […]
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of classics, philosophy and religion, co-director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, has received an Award for Outstanding Service from the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education, for facilitating the hosting of Leila Asadi at UMW from 2011 to 2012.“Presented with sincere appreciation and in recognition of the […]
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, recently published a new book:
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia: From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism, co-edited with S. H. Nasr. Vol. 4. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012.
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The fourth volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and least known periods of philosophical life in Persia, the centuries between the thirteenth century which saw the eclipse of the school of Khurasan and the sixteenth century which coincided with the rise of the Safavids. The main schools dealt with in this volume are the Peripatetic (mashsha’i) School, the School of Illumination (ishraq) of Suhrawardi, and various forms of philosophical Sufism, especially the school of Ibn ‘Arabi, which had its origins in the works of Ghazzali and ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani. This period was also notable for the philosopher-scientists such as Nasir al-Din Tusi and Qutb al-Din Shirazi.