Ep 34: Shi’i Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Legacy of Henry Corbin

Oct 23, 2026

Join us on Sunday, October 25th at 2pm EST for Episode 34 of The Insight Interviews: “Shi‘i Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Legacy of Henry Corbin”, featuring Mathieu Terrier of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE/PSL), Paris, in conversation with host Sajjad Rizvi of the University of Exeter. This instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.

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Mathieu TerrierGuest

Mathieu Terrier

EPHE/PSL, Paris

Mathieu Terrier is directeur d’études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE/PSL), Religious sciences Section (chair: classical and premodern shi’ism), and a member of the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes. His works focus on Twelver Shi’ism in relation to philosophy and Sufism. His last publication is: with Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (ed.), De la lettre à l’esprit. Travaux en hommage à Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi / From the Letter to the Spirit. Studies in Honour of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (Turnhout, 2025).

Sajjad RizviHost

Sajjad Rizvi

University of Exeter

Sajjad Rizvi is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of Global and Area Studies at the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on post-Avicennian philosophical traditions in the Islamic East. He is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of Shii Islam with Ahab Bdaiwi, and completing a monograph on maximalist imamology and another one on Platonisms in Islam.

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