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 [...]

Rūmī’s Path of Realization

William C. Chittick Stony Brook University, USA Transcendent Philosophy Journal, Volume 8 . December 2007, pp: 1-18. London Academy of Iranian Studies   Abstract   One of the key terms employed in defining the nature of the Islamic intellectual tradition is taḥqīq, “realization” or “verification”. Literally, the word means to [...]

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 21 – Number 32 – December 2020

  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 Source of Indian Spiritual Manifestations Upanishad” Farzaneh Azamlotfi The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature ,University [...]

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 24, Winter 2020 has been published by LAIS

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 24 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 [...]

Book: The Practice of Sufism and the Safavid Order – written by Dr Seyed Salman Safavi

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.   The first chapter discusses The Practice of Sufism (Mysticism) in Islam: This chapter introduces the [...]

Department of comparative Upaniśadic literature and Islamic philosophy and Sufism at the London Academy of Iranian,

Allameh Tabatabai has a famous sentence that says: the scent of monotheism can be heard from the Upanishads. Upanis̩adic literature is the great treasure of spiritual wisdom in the Indic knowledge system. It is denoted as the Jñāna-Kān̩d̩a in the Vedic Literature. Basically spiritual knowledge is preached in this literature; [...]

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 23, Spring 2020 has been published by LAIS

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 23 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 [...]

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 22, Winter 2019 has been published by LAIS

Islamic Perspective Journal Volume 22 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 [...]