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Reading group: Suhrawardi’s Philosophy of Illumination, introduction and Part One

Reading Group Reza Tehrani
Mysticism & spirituality Islamic Persian #illumination #light

Last reply Elif Yıldız

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4d
Rumi and Spinoza: are they describing the same God?

Question Reza Tehrani
Religions compared Modern European Persian Sufism Baruch Spinoza #god #mysticism

Open question

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13d
Mystical experience can count as evidence for what it reveals

Debate Reza Tehrani
Mysticism & spirituality Islamic Persian Sufism #mystical-experience #religious-epistemology

For 3Against 3

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24d
Persian gardens, proportion, and Plato’s Timaeus

Discussion Reza Tehrani
Beauty & art Greek & Roman Persian Plato #beauty #proportion

Last reply Reza Tehrani

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Sep 2026
What does “primacy of existence” (asalat al-wujud) mean in plain terms?

Question Reza Tehrani
Existence & being Persian Mulla Sadra #metaphysics #primacy-of-existence

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Aug 2026
Mulla Sadra’s substantial motion: is everything changing at the level of substance?

Discussion Reza Tehrani
Time & space Persian Mulla Sadra #change #substantial-motion

Last reply Reza Tehrani

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Aug 2026
Mulla Sadra

Thinker
Persian

Persian philosopher of the Safavid period, trained in Isfahan under Mir Damad and Shaykh Baha'i, who founded the school known as the Transcendent Philosophy…

c. 1571 – 1640

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