The Promenade of Souls
The Forgotten Philosopher Who Kept Islam's Light AliveBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 20m
About this audiobook
There is a light inside you that nothing in history has ever managed to put out—that quiet, luminous sense you have carried since childhood.
In 1258, as Mongol armies destroyed Baghdad and five centuries of learning came apart, a physician and philosopher in the Kurdish highlands kept working. Shams al-Din al-Shahrazuri wrote a history of every thinker who had ever glimpsed that light, preserving the tradition when it mattered most.
The Promenade of Souls is a narrative biography drawn from Shahrazuri's surviving works, bringing to life his Illuminationist vision of a universe made of light.
• Find a model for keeping your own light alive in difficult times
• Understand the Illuminationist philosophy explained clearly
• Discover why some ideas survive catastrophe and outlast destruction
This is a book for anyone who has sensed that the world is more than it appears, and who has never stopped believing it.
Begin reading. The light has been waiting.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Biography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 17, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Prologue
31. The Land Called Shahrazur
42. The Murdered Master
53. What Is Light?
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64. The Philosophy Goes Underground
75. The Night the Libraries Burned
86. A Vision of All the Sages
97. From Adam to Hermes
108. The Greeks in Eastern Eyes
119. The First Philosophers of Islam
1210. The Divine Tree
1311. The Architecture of Light
1412. The World Between Worlds
1513. The Soul's Long Journey
1614. The Art of Commentary
1715. Physician of the Body, Philosopher of the Soul
1816. Writing in the Shadow of the Khan
1917. How Ideas Survive
2018. The Garden of Souls
2119. The Forgotten Man
2220. The Light That Remains
23Epilogue
2421. Author's Note
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