Reason in the Ruins
The Life and Mind of Athir al-Din al-Abhari, the Philosopher Who Kept Thinking By Narin Hikma
Length9h 22m
About this audiobook
There is a particular loneliness in caring about getting something right when nobody around you does—the quiet hours spent on careful work, wondering if it matters.
In the 1200s, Athir al-Din al-Abhari lost everything to the Mongol invasions. Walking west with nothing, he wrote in borrowed rooms. His short text on logic guided millions of students from the Balkans to Bengal for eight hundred years, though few remembered his name.
This narrative biography tells the story of a refugee scholar who taught a civilization how to think clearly.
• Discover a mind that shaped how a civilization reasoned
• Learn to see the difference between a sound argument and mere noise
• Find permission to do patient, careful work when the world rewards speed
The lamp did not go out. Somebody had to sit up with it.
Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Spirituality and Religion
Length9 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Prologue
3Introduction
41. A Town Between Two Mountains
52. The Great Teacher
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63. The Sound the World Makes When It Ends
74. The Road to Erbil
85. The Astronomer of Mosul
96. Stars That Choose to Move
107. The Question Aristotle Left Unanswered
118. A Book in Three Sentences
129. What Is a Definition?
1310. The Parallel Lines
1411. The Guide
1512. The City That Was the World
1613. The Shadow of the Khan
1714. The Men He Made
1815. The Suhrawardi Thread
1916. Dying Under Mongol Stars
2017. Eight Hundred Years in the Madrasa
2118. The Logic of Survival
2219. Reason's Lamp
2320. The Inheritance
24Epilogue
2521. Author's Note
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