Mohammad Saleh Zarepour

Volume 108 Issue 3 | The Monist | Oxford Academic One of the oldest and most important journals in philosophy. Publishes quarterly thematic issues on particular philosophical topics which are edited by leading philosophers in the corresponding fields...

An issue of the Monist has just appeared devoted to Ibn Sīnā/Avicenna! A great lineup of authors, and I'm honored to be part of it, having written a paper with Michael Noble about the reception of the idea of the Active Intellect.

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#philsky #avicenna #ibnsina

Exciting news: I just learned that this collection that I edited has been translated into Arabic by an Egyptian scholar and will be published soon! Stay tuned!

I'm on a roll today: Two rejections in two hours!

‘I Am Darkness’: On Liar-Style Anti-Dualist Arguments in Kalām In the medieval Islamic world, dualism—i.e. the view that reality is constituted of two incompatible ultimate substances, the light and the darkness—was sometimes criticised by appealing to liar-st...

My most recent article on the history of the liar paradox in the medieval Islamic world is now available open-access:

“‘I Am Darkness’: On Liar-Style Anti-Dualist Arguments in Kalām”

Honoured to be selected as the treasurer of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. Looking forward to working with Christopher Insole (president) and David Leech (secretary). The theme of the next BSPR conference, scheduled for 2027, is "God and the Limits of Reason". Stay tuned!

Volume 108 Issue 3 | The Monist | Oxford Academic One of the oldest and most important journals in philosophy. Publishes quarterly thematic issues on particular philosophical topics which are edited by leading philosophers in the corresponding fields...

The special issue of *The Monist* that I edited on "The Philosophy of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)" is now out! 3 of the 8 papers included in this issue are open access!

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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social

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My paper 'No Easy Road to PSR' is now published in an issue of The Journal of Philosophy.

Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives. It opens with methodological discussions on the relationship between the history of Isla...

The paperback of *Islamic Philosophy of Religion* is published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social and is much cheaper than its hardback!

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Nice to meet you in person!

#TheGuiltyPleasureOfHavingPrintCopies

Huge thanks to all the brilliant speakers at the 2nd Manchester Workshop on Islamic Phil. (Wahid Amin, Fedor Benevich, Kamran Karimullah, Jon McGinnis, and Aysenur Tabur)! All the talks were truly fascinating! Stay tuned for the 3rd workshop, which will hopefully feature a larger group of speakers!

Looking forward to the Second Manchester Workshop on Islamic Philosophy, taking place on July 3-4.

@uomsoss.bsky.social

Want to track recent publications on medieval (philosophy of) mathematics? @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social has you covered on the page below (which includes my *Medieval Finitism* as well):

Had a great time in Nottingham! Enjoyed a lot the after-talk conversations I had with brilliant students and scholars at @uonphilosophy.bsky.social.

Looking forward to this event at @uonphilosophy.bsky.social today!

Can’t take it with you I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life.
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Excited that this conference is approaching!

Two incoming PhD students planning to work with me on Islamic Philosophy (with an analytical approach) have received full funding. Encouraging to see the field thriving at @manchester.ac.uk (@uomsoss.bsky.social).

conference poster

Bridges between Parallel Paths: Arabic-Islamic and Latin Christian Medieval Philosophies Conference June 13-14 King's College, London & online bridgesconference2025.wordpress.com
@thebshp.bsky.social @mszarepour.bsky.social @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social

Farbod Akhlaghi, Divinely Prescribed Evil and Moral Knowledge in Islam and Beyond - PhilPapers Can one who takes Scripture to be the word of God, and who takes their independent moral judgements to be reliable, reconcile such beliefs with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit ...

Delighted to be able to share this new forthcoming paper: my part of a book symposium on Amir Saemi's excellent 'Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond', edited by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour for Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. philpapers.org/rec/AKHDPE

I learnt a lot from your academic writings, tweets, and social media posts, and I am and will be thankful for them. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers, sending you love and peace.

My *Avicenna + Zorn = Necessary Existent* is published in the new vol. of OSPR, edited by @larabuchak.net and Dean Zimmerman. Combining a series of Avicennian principles and Zorn's lemma, I have developed a proof for the ex. of God, which is probably stronger than the original Proof of the Sincere.

My SEP entry on "Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Mathematics" has been translated to Spanish and Portuguese:

EN:
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ES:
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PT:
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A research symposium with Robert Audi and Mark Wynn, organised by Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2 at the University of Birmingham. Travel bursaries are available for students.

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well-known argument for this claim....

My "PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy" is published open-access in Theoria.

I argue that Ibn Sīnā's necessitarianism is *compatbile* with not only epistemic but also ontic openness of the future.

I know; many people disagree.

Just submitted my entry on "Islamic Philosophy of Religion" for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stay tuned!

This will be the second encyclopedia entry I have ever written. The first one was on "Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Mathematics" for SEP.👇

Just updated my website after a long time:

Logic, Soul, and World "Logic, Soul, and World" published on 26 Jun 2025 by Brill.

It will be out soon. You can now pre-order it.

*Logic, Soul, and World: Essays in Arabic Philosophy in Honor of Tony Street*, edited by A. Ahmed, M. S. Zarepour, and R. Strobino.

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Many Congratulations!

Unfortunately, I cannot attend it myself! But I'm sure it will be a great talk:

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زهی خجسته زمانی که یار باز آید/ به کام *غم‌زدگان* غم‌گسار باز آید

در شعر فارسی *غم‌زده* خیلی مثل *سیل‌زده* یا *زلزله‌زده* به کار رفته و در همان معنای اصطلاح عربی است.