"Aristotle’s Categories in the Arabic Tradition" is now open access : degruyter.com/database/WPR/e… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Here’s a post I have contributed to a German blog on teaching philosophy, entitled “Why Teaching Global Philosophy is Easier than You Think”: lehrgut.org/why-teaching-g…

20 Powerful Latin Proverbs for Enduring Dark Times of Political Crisis — Thread 🧵 (1/20) Corruptissima re publica, plurimae leges. — “When the republic is at its most corrupt, the laws are the most numerous.”

Stay tuned! It will be out soon... Dumbarton Oaks Papers 78 (2024): 355–96.

Anyone planning to attend Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS) Conference in Cambridge next year? I am organising a panel on "Why is there no History of Southeast Asian political thought?". Calling all colleagues working on any aspects of political thoughts, history, theory, or philosophy - detail below:

Latin: “Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.” English: “We learn not for school, but for life.” — Seneca

I’ve found for decades that if you teach classic works in a way that simply presents them on their own terms, making clear what they are trying to accomplish and why so many have been drawn to them, young people are often fascinated by them. I’m sure this can be as true in

“Endless and eternal Paradise lies not with these meager daily deeds. Rather, it lies with good intentions.” — al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

The new, open access volume of the "Heirs of Avicenna" sourcebook series is out! About 600 pages of translated material on later Islamic logic and epistemology! brill.com/display/title/… All original texts for this and the first volume available at: heirsofavicenna.net

#NewRelease Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk Rosabel P. Ansari. Oxford Univ Pr 2025 academic.oup.com/book/61442?sea…

My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire academic.oup.com/book/61617

Learning’s an increase for the wise man and a drawback for the dimwit, just as day adds light to the eyes of man but eclipses those of a bat.

Cornell Fleischer, Cemal Kafadar, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam joining forces in their essay ‘How to write fake global history’ against Alan Mikhail’s book “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/crom…

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the

Enroll Now: Studies in Sufism 1 I’m delighted to invite you to join me for Studies in Sufism 1, a six-week online course. I’ll guide you step by step from early ascetic roots of Sufism to the timeless works of masters such as Ghazali, Ibn ʿArabi, and Rumi, with special

Funny historical revisionism by Ibn Taymiyyah to get back at al-Rāzī: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī wrote the following in the introduction to his famous book Ta’sīs al-Taqdīs: (Though I live in the farthest eastern lands, I have witnessed the people of the east and west unanimously

First of a series of "rules" giving advice on academic writing about history of philosophy, which I'll be posting on my blog over the coming days. Hope people will find this useful and interesting! Feedback more than welcome! historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writing-1

I have finally completed a full documentary on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, in which I cover his entire life, his unique Sufi metaphysics, address common accusations made against him, and provide a detailed overview of his intellectual and spiritual journey. youtu.be/9k3QDTG_dpo?si…

This review by Tim is out now: Rethinking Metaphysics ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/rethin…

Al-Ghazālī & the Ideal of Godlikeness | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/al-gha…