Between Heaven and Reason
The Life and Philosophy of Abu al-Hasan al-Amiri — The Forgotten Philosopher of the Islamic Golden AgeBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 11m
About this audiobook
He spent thirty years working where nobody was watching.
In tenth-century Nishapur, Abu al-Hasan al-Amiri read a Greek argument that the soul dies with the body. Unable to leave the contradiction alone, he spent fifty years trying to answer it.
He traveled nine hundred miles, was publicly humiliated in debate, and was accused of heresy. When a brilliant young man arrived with forty-one questions, al-Amiri answered them—only for that young man, Ibn Sina, to dismiss him. Forgotten for a thousand years, his lost manuscript was rediscovered in 2015.
• Meet a mind that refused to choose between faith and reason
• Recognize the quiet worth of the work you have done that no one saw
This is a narrative biography about the years of a life that leave no trace, and what they turn out to have been holding up.
Somebody is standing on ground you prepared, and they do not know your name. Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, History
Length9 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. Second Attempt
2Prologue
1412. The Accusation
31. The City That Held Its Contradictions
1513. The Merits of Islam
42. The Man Who Had Sat With al-Kindi
1614. Bukhara
53. The Years Nobody Wrote Down
1715. The Book of the Limit
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64. What Aristotle Took Away
1816. What You Become
75. The Road West
1917. The Seven Sessions
86. The Vizier's House
2018. Nishapur, Last
97. Deliverance
2119. A Thousand Years of Silence
108. The City of Cities
2220. The Men Who Went Looking
119. The Grammarian
23Epilogue
1210. The Witness
2421. Author's Note
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