A History of Philosophy in Mesopotamia, Cassical Iran and Early Islam

By Hazhir Teimourian

By at least 4000 years ago, Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia had learnt to record sophisticated thought in writing. Yet, as far as unearthed evidence suggests, the first philosophical academies in the modern sense were founded in ancient in Greece over a thousand years later. The Greeks built on what had been achieved before, including in Sumer, Babylonia and classical Iran. This book collates that earlier achievement from the records of those lands themselves and puts it into a single volume for the general reader. It also discusses what the earliest philosophers of the later Islamic empires inherited from the Greeks, the Iranians, the Hindus and others, and how they interpreted and adapted that heritage for their own use. Included also are a number of unsung, but significate freethinkers and some failed religious movements that had interesting philosophical underpinnings. The author, who was born in 1940 in Kurdish western Iran and brought up in the near-Zoroastrian Yarsan religion, specialises in metaphysics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. He believes strongly that any writer who writes meta-philosophy today ought to have a firm understanding of the latest discoveries of the physicists, astronomers and biologists. Teimourian was for many years a commentator on world affairs for The Times and the BBC and a host of other major broadcasters all over the western world. His last book, The Ultimate Question: In search of God in a godless universe , was published in 2024 to academic acclaim.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4QT67V6
• ISBN13: 9798313404677
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"