Sayeh Meisami is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton who has published several books and articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. In line with her interdisciplinary interests, she also has articles on the significance of poetic techniques of thinking and writing in later Islamic philosophy and sufism, and her ongoing research focuses on the continuity of mythological and philosophical discourses in the Persianate context.
This conference, organized by Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.
Join us for a day-long conference on Islamic Philosophy, co-sponsored by the Shi’a Research Institute.
Mohammed Rustom, a professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University and the director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. focuses his research on Islamic philosophy, Arabic, and Persian Sufi literature, Quranic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.
Reza Hadisi (Toronto) pursues questions in ethics, epistemology, and action theory through the study of the history of philosophy. He is particularly interested in the Medieval Arabic and Persian traditions and Kant.
Shankar Nair’s (Virginia) general field of interest is the religious and intellectual history of the Indian subcontinent, particularly as it relates to broader traditions of Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur’anic exegesis, and Hindu philosophy and theology.
