The Disclosure of Secrets
Afzal al-Din Khunaji and the Art of Thinking at the End of the Golden AgeBy Narin Hikma
Length7h 32m
About this audiobook
The town that made him no longer exists. The argument he made in it is still being taught.
Afzal al-Din Khunaji walked three thousand kilometers to Cairo after Mongol invasions erased his home. In his stolen hours as a judge, he challenged the greatest philosopher of his age and proved him wrong. Ibn Khaldun later named him one of two scholars who transformed Islamic thought.
This narrative biography follows a refugee who carried pure thought across a burning world.
• Feel the courage of keeping a standard when nobody is watching
• Discover an intellectual world far richer than standard history
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Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, History
Length7 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1210. On What Logic Is
2Prologue
1311. The Students Who Came
31. The Town That Will Not Survive
1412. The Impossible Antecedent
42. What Avicenna Built
1513. Medicine and Law
53. The World Is Breaking
1614. The Mongols Draw Closer
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64. Cairo at the Center of the World
1715. On Modal Propositions
75. The Scholar Becomes a Judge
1816. Bar Hebraeus Watches
86. Reading the Masters
1917. The Argument That Outlasted Him
97. The Courage to Disagree
2018. The Secrets Disclosed
108. The Objection from Maragha
21Epilogue
119. The Obscurities of Thoughts
2219. Author's Note
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