David Ambuel recently published Turtles All the Way Down: On Plato’s Theaetetus, a Translation and Commentary. Academia Verlag published the book in January, 2015.The Theaetetus is subtitled peri epistemes, on knowledge, and peirastikos, tentative. Theaetetus’ three attempted definitions of knowledge, each ventured only to fail, are structured in a cascading reduction. This regress functions both negatively, as an indirect demonstration that […]
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol.5. Ed. S.H. Nasr & M. Aminrazavi, London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. pp. 544.The fifth and final volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with some seven centuries of Islamic thought stretching from the era following the Mongol invasion to the end of the Qajar period early in the […]
In a newly edited book, Professor Aminrazavi explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sa’di into English and the ongoing popularity of Omar Khayyam offered intriguing […]
After 9/11, Dr. & Mrs. Khatib, longtime residents of NY, endowed a Chair in Comparative Religious Studies at St. Joseph College. Every year, the position is given to a different scholar to do something creative such as teaching a course, give lecture series, etc. Last year, our own Professor Aminrazavi was the Khatib Chair and was […]
The gift, which will one day fund several four-year scholarships to UMW students majoring in Classics, was publicly announced in the UMW faculty-staff newsletter, the Eagle Eye, and in a recent article in the Free Lance Star. The department was very pleased by the announcement and the flattering article by Lindley Estes. There appears to have been a misunderstanding, […]