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 came into being in ancient Greece over a thousand years later. The Greeks built on what had been achieved before, including in Sumer, Babylonia, classical Iran and Egypt. This work collates that earlier achievement from the records of those lands themselves and puts it into a single volume for the general reader. It also presents what the most prominent philosophers of the later Islamic empires inherited from the Greeks, the Iranians, the Hindus and others, and how they interpreted and adapted that heritage to their own needs. The author was born in 1940 in Kurdish western Iran and brought up in the near-Zoroastrian Yarsan religion of the region. He specialises in metaphysics and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. He believes strongly that any writer on the ultimate questions of philosophy today ought to have a firm understanding of the latest findings of the physicists, the astronomers and the 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5344GRC
• ISBN13: 9798319182968
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"