Janis Esots is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK and Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Latvia, Latvia. His research focuses on Ismaili thought and the so-called ‘philosophical school of Isfahan’ (Mulla Sadra, Mir Damad, and Rajab ‘Ali Tabrizi). He is the managing editor of Encyclopedia Islamica and the editor of the Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, Ishraq.
It is a highly useful contribution that will be telling and should be widely adopted in classes and read with avid interest by those seeking to make sense of the broader intellectual history of Islamic philosophical traditions into the modern period. * The Muslim World Book Review *