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Sayeh Meisami
Professor
Full-Time Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences: Philosophy
Degrees
- Ph.D., Islamic Studies, University of Toronto
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Tehran University
- M.A., Tehran University
- B.A., Shahid Beheshti University
Selected publications
Books
Meisami, Sayeh. Exploring Islamic Philosophy. Sheffield, UK: Equinox, forthcoming 2025. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/islamic-philosophy/
Meisami, Sayeh. Nasir al-Din Tusi: A Philosopher for All Seasons. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 2019.
Meisami, Sayeh. Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī. London, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018.
Meisami, Sayeh. Mulla Sadra. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2013.
Peer-reviewed articles
Meisami, Sayeh. “The Point of Reality and the Circle of Appearance: The Sufi Philosophy of Maḥmūd Shabistarī’s Gulshan-i rāz through the Lens of Shams al-Dīn Lāhījī’s Mafātīḥ al-iʿjāz.” Brill Journal of Sufi Studies, 9 (2020): 30-51.
Meisami, Sayeh. “Poetry as an Essential Tool of Philosophical Inquiry and Writing in Later Islamic Philosophy: The Case of Mullā Ṣadrā.” University of Villanova Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 43:4 (2020): 56-73.
Meisami, Sayeh. “Ibn Sīnā’s Philosophical Interpretation of Sūrat al-Falaq.” Brill Albayān Journal 15 (2017):1-19.Meisami, Sayeh. “Mullā Ṣadrā's Philosophical Arguments for the Necessity of the Imamate.” Religion Compass (2016): 1-10.
Meisami, Sayeh. “Mullā Ṣadrā and the Efficacy of Prayer.” Brill Journal of Sufi Studies 4 (2015): 59-83.
Refereed book chapters
Meisami, Sayeh, “Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context.” In Festschrift in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata. Edited by Mohammed Rustom. Leiden: Brill, 2023: 371-388.
Meisami, Sayeh. “Mullā Ṣadrā and the Meta-theory of Logic.” In Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval Arabic Thought. Edited by Saloua Chatti. Berlin: Springer, 2022: 51-77.
Meisami, Sayeh. “Abdolkarim Soroush.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. Edited by Andrew Rippin. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Encyclopedia entries
Meisami, Sayeh, “Muḥammad.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Stew Goetz, Charles Taliaferro, 4 vols. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119009924.eopr0253
Meisami, Sayeh. “Mullā Ṣadrā.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by James Fieser and Bradly Dowden (2014). http://www.iep.utm.edu/sadra/
Works translated into other languages
Karen Martínez García, tr. “La poesía como herramienta esencial de la investigación filosófica y la escritura en la filosofía islámica posterior: el caso de Mullā Ṣadrā” by Sayeh Meisami. Sadra Revista filosofía y mística islámica 7 (2023).
Muradi Tadi, Mohammad-Reza, tr. Mullā Ṣadrā by Sayeh Meisami. Tehran: Nashr-i Nāmak, 2018.