Call for Papers: “Comparative Studies on Philosophy and Sufism” – 2025

Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal For Comparative Philosophy And Mysticism 📅 Submission Deadline: 30 August 2025 The Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal For Comparative Philosophy And Mysticism, published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS), invites scholars to submit original research for an upcoming special issue on Comparative Studies [...]

Book Review: The Practice of Sufism and the Safavid Order

Book review of The Practice of Sufism and the Safavid Order, written by Dr Seyed Salman Safavi and published by LAIS Press in 2018. The book is comprised of two chapters, Practice Sufism and The Safavid order.

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 25 – Number 36 – December 2024

Transcendent Philosophy Journal is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) and aims to create a dialogue between Eastern, Western and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is published in December.         Articles The Quiddity of Iranian Philosophy Seyed Salman Safavi London Academy of Iranian Studies [7-32] Christian [...]

Spiritual Life is Writing Off the Self: Philosophy and Mysticism as Practices of Learning to Die to Live

  Muhammad Maroof Shah Kashmir Abstract What is life divine or spiritual life about? It is a life in which one is free, no longer slave to the dictates of desiring self or attachment to passing things. How do philosophy, religion, mysticism ad poetry contributes to this task of living [...]

Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili from the perspective of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei

Seyed Salman Safavi London Academy of Iranian Studies Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of I.R. Iran, gave a speech on 3 Mordad, 1379 (24 July 2000) in Ardabil about the great personality and importance of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili (1252/3 – 1334). Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili is the founder [...]

Call for Papers: “Comparative Studies on Philosophy and Sufism, 2024” Transcendent Philosophy Journal

Call for Papers: “Comparative Studies on Philosophy and Sufism, 2024” “Transcendent Philosophy Journal”, London Academy of Iranian Studies. 30 July 2024   Topics: Farabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardy, Mulla Sadra, Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili, Shāh Ni’matullāh Wali, Sheikh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, Meister Eckhart, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Rudolf Otto, Carl [...]

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 24 – Number 35 – December 2023

Transcendent Philosophy Journal is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) and aims to create a dialogue between Eastern, Western and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is published in December.     Articles Manifesto of Life (Philosophical Interpretation of Surah al-Asr of the Quran) Seyed Salman Safavi and Seyed Sadreddin [...]

Call for Papers: Comparative Studies on Philosophy and Sufism 2023

London Academy of Iranian Studies 1 April 2023   Topics: Farabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardy, Mulla Sadra, Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili, Shāh Ni’matullāh Wali, Sheikh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Rudolf Otto, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernst Cassirer, Louis Massignon, Mircea Eliade, Persian Literature, Upanishads, Meister Eckhart, Philosophy of [...]

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 23 – Number 34 – December 2022

Transcendent Philosophy Journal is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) and aims to create a dialogue between Eastern, Western and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is published in December.   Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 23 – Number 34 – December 2022   Articles The Perfect Human From the Point [...]

The Place of Prophecy in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy of Perception

By Joseph Lumbard, Yale University, USA   Transcendent Philosophy Journal, Volume:1, Issue: 2, year 2000, Page Numbers:  23–32, London, UK. Perception According to Mulla Sadra, edited by Seyed G Safavi, Salman Azadeh Publication, 2002, Page Numbers: 127-148

Letter of Condolence – His Majesty King Charles III

Your Majesty King Charles III I express my deep condolences to your majesty, the Royal Family, and the British nation for the loss of your mother, her majesty queen Elizabeth II. I hope that in the era of your majesty’s reign, constructive cultural relations between Great Britain and the Islamic [...]

Philosophical Meditations and Discussions by Dr Nadia Maftouni has been published by LAIS Press

Philosophical Meditations and Discussions by Dr Nadia Maftouni has been published by LAIS Press. This book consists of two parts, Philosophical Meditations and Philosophical discussions.    Part I: Philosophical Meditations 1. Art as It Is, and Art as It Should Be: An Analytical Study of Fārābī  2. Sohrawardi as the [...]

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 22 – Number 33 – December 2021

  Transcendent Philosophy Journal is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) and aims to create a dialogue between Eastern, Western and Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism is published in December.

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 25, Spring 2021 has been published by LAIS

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 25 The Journal of Islamic Perspective published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS) is a peer-reviewed Journal of the Center for Humanities and Sociological Studies, affiliated to the London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS). This Journal aims to create a dialogue between intellectuals, thinkers [...]

Mulla Sadra’s Epistemology and the Philosophy of Physics

Caner K. Dagli The George Washington University, USA     Abstract In response to the philosophical speculation that has accompanied the empirical findings of twentieth-century physics, the contemporary philosopher and mathematician Wolfgang Smith has introduced a distinction between what he calls the corporeal and physical worlds, the former being that [...]