The Keeper of Flame
Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān, Avicenna's Greatest Student, and the Questions That Made Philosophy ImmortalBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 27m
About this audiobook
You know the question that will not let go—the one sitting at the edge of your mind that you are not sure you are allowed to ask.
In eleventh-century Persia, a Zoroastrian scholar sat in Avicenna's study circle and became something rarer than a brilliant student: the person whose questions made his teacher's thinking sharper. For twenty years, Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān debated Avicenna, and when his master died, he spent twenty-nine more carrying the fire forward.
This narrative biography tells the story of an extraordinary teacher-student relationship and a mind that took a tradition seriously enough to question it.
• Inherit a tradition and take it seriously enough to disagree
• Understand the idea that some things are more fully real than others
• See what it takes to keep a flame alive after the teacher is gone
This is for anyone who has loved learning, lost a teacher, or carried a question further than intended.
Open the first page. The fire is still burning.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Psychology
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
1311. What Is a Soul?
2Prologue
1412. The Summation Begins
31. The World He Was Born Into
1513. The Uncle
42. The Fire and the Word
1614. Between Two Fires
53. The City of Books
1715. Being and Existence
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64. The Man Who Knew Everything
1816. The Master Falls
75. First Encounter
1917. The Work Continues
86. The Art of the Question
2018. The Bridge
97. The Court and the Study
2119. What Remains
108. The Aristocratic Gentleman
2220. The Last Question
119. Isfahan
23Epilogue
1210. The Discussions
2421. Author's Note
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