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Islamic Ethics and the Modern Human Interview with Dr Seyed G Safavi

    Dr. Safavi’s expertise is in Philosophy, Islamic Mysticism, and Comparative Philosophy. His new books on philosophy and Islamic Mysticism are: New Path: A Novel Interpretation of Mathnawi; Practical Mysticism; Ethics and Perfect Human in Rumi’s Perspective; Ahl Al Bayt According to Rumi; Islamic Mysticism in the East and the West; Structure of Mathnawi […]

Reflections on Erich Fromm By Dr Seyed Javad Miri

Reflections on Erich Fromm By Dr Seyed Javad Miri has been published in London by London Academy of Iranian Studie Press in 2011. “It is just such a liberational, redemptive and humanistic perspective – dialectically derived from and thus, a radical critique of the modern social system of injustice and negativity that penetrates into the […]

Islamic Perspective Journal – Number 5, 2011

Islamic Perspective Journal Number 5, 2011     To download the electronic version of the journal click here 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 […]

Transcendent Philosophy Journal Volume 11, 2010

Transcendent Philosophy Journal, volume 11, December 2010 has been published by the London Academy of Iranian Studies. To view the journal click here Contents: Philosophical comparison between the perspective of Mulla Sadra and Descartes on Soul, Seyed G Safavi [5-20] Mulla Sadra on The Human Soul and itsBecoming, Zailan Moris [21-36] Rereading Fromm’s Conditions of […]

The Structure of Book One of the Mathnawī as a Whole

 Dr Seyed G Safavi*  University of London, UK London Academy of Iranian Studies (LAIS)   The two previous papers have presented the general principles of parallelism and chiasmus, and have shown how Mawlānā used these two principles to organise his great work in such a way that if you read it linearly and sequentially you form an […]