Platonism In Safavid Persia: Mīrdāmād (d. 1631) and Āqājānī (ca. 1661) on the Platonic Forms

In this paper, I analyze the treatment of Platonic Ideas in the fifth Qabas (lit. “blazing brand,” in this context a “chapter”) of Mīr Dāmād’s Qabasāt, 2 along with Āqājāni’s 3 commentary thereof. In this section, Mīr Dāmād first

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