The Iraqi Shiite movements known as the <em<ghulāt or ‘extremists’ held many ‘extreme’ theological and cosmological views, none more so than their belief in cyclical reincarnation into a range of entities from rocks to exalted superhuman entities. Mushegh Asatryan is our guide as we explore the texts of the earliest reincarnationists of the Believers' movement.
We discuss the translation, adaptation, and evolution of Proclus' Elements of Theology into and through the Arabic and Latin thought-worlds with Peter Adamson. Come for the monotheist Proclus who is Aristotle, stay for the digression on Plethon.
We discuss the extraordinary reception-history of the extraordinary text known as Sefer Yetsirah, the ‘Book of Formation‘. The Sefer Yetsirah would eventually become a foundational text for the Kabbalist movements of the high middle ages, but it was (and is) much more than that. Professor Langermann lays out the evolutions in reading this text from Sa‘adia Gaon to Aryeh Kaplan.
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