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صادق سمیعی، از ناشران معروف ایرانی که روز سه‌شنبه ۱۵ تیر درگذشت، عقیده داشت كسانی باید در صنعت نشر ایران بمانند كه به کار نشر عشق بورزند، «در غیر این صورت، ماندن در این حرفه غلط است».
برای اولین بار، اتحادیهٔ ناشران و کتابفروشان تهران خبر درگذشت سمیعی را که مدیریت انتشارات کتابسرا را برعهده داشت، اعلام کرد. سمیعی مدتی بازرس همین اتحادیه بود.
سمیعی پیش از آن‌که ناشر باشد، بانکدار بود و در حوزه‌های بانکی و بازرگانی فعالیت می‌کرد. پیش از انقلاب، قائم‌مقام بانک ایران و عرب بود که پس از انقلاب در بانک ملت ادغام شد. مدتی هم مدیریت مجله ا
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Unlike his Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity which I reviewed with pleasure and admiration for Dawn Akbar S. Ahmed’s new book, The Flying Man: Aristotle, and the Philosophers of the Golden Age of Islam Their Relevance Today, is slim, yet very suggestive.
In it, Ahmed gifts readers with his encyclopaedic knowledge via analyses of philosophers from Islam’s Golden Age. These are primarily the Persian- and Arabic-language writers Avicenna (Ibn Sina), al Ghazali, Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and Ibn Arabi, but also Rabbi Moses Maimonides and St Thomas Aquinas.
Ahmed chose only those leading logicians among the many who burst on to the philosophy scene between Harun al Rashid’s reign in the 9th century, and the Mongols’ ransacking of Baghdad in the mid-13th century. With erudition, he examines the region that stretched from Cordoba in the west to Bukhara in the east.
Daily Times
June 30, 2021
The important lesson of this Golden Age is the reminder that using reasoning and empirical findings to arrive at logical conclusions represents the most fundamental of human activities. This belief has its roots in Greek philosophy, especially that of Aristotle. Such a rational approach allowed people to ponder philosophical questions as much as their relations with those from different cultures. After all, we are better able to see our own culture after examining others’; thereby sharpening our focus regarding existing limitations. Cross-cultural comparative studies of this sort underpin my particular discipline: anthropology.
The second lesson is societies flourish when positive and healthy interaction exists. When this collapses – there is conflict and strife. Thus, the Golden Age came to an end when the Almohad Dynasty began persecuting minorities and scholars. This saw Rabbi Maimonides and Ibn Rushdboth expelled from Cordoba. Similarly, when the