The Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of King's College London and the

LMU in Munich, online at www. History of Philosophy.net.

Today's episode, All Things Considered, Abul Barakat al-Bagdadi.

As we turn to the first major figure of this series of episodes on philosophy in the later Islamic world, a few warnings are in order.

Firstly, beware that as always there will be some wince-inducingly bad puns, because a history of philosophy

podcast without puns would be like drilling holes in a wall, boring.

Secondly, even more than in the previous episodes on the Islamic world, there will be a lot of unfamiliar

names coming at you. I suspect that most listeners will recognize

at best a handful of the many thinkers I'm going to discuss, with the most famous probably

being Rumi, Ibn Taimia, and Mullah Sadra. Among the less prominent names, you'll have to try to keep apart the founder of illuminationism, Suhravardi, and one of his followers, Shahrazuri, A Sufi named Al-Kunawi and a logician named

Al-Hunaji and avoid confusing the great theologian of the 12th century, Fachradin Arasi, with the unorthodox philosopher and Dr. Arasi, whom we discussed

many episodes ago.

Here I should mention, in case you haven't yet come across them, the timelines of philosophers I put on the

podcast website. These will show you not only how to spell all these difficult

names but also when they lived. There are so far three timelines on philosophy in classical Greece, late antiquity, and now

the Islamic world, and they include every thinker I've mentioned in the podcasts.

A third warning is more substantive.

The episodes to come are going to be looking at figures and movements that are unknown even

to most academic experts, never mind the wider public.

Research on philosophy in the Islamic world, including my own research by the way, has always

focused on texts written up to the 12th century or so.

Averuise, my monities, and-Gazale are the most recent thinkers who have been adequately

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