Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

209 Episodes

1. Ahab Bdaiwi on the Rise of Shī‘ī Esotericism

   Published: 25/07/2025
2. Ahab Bdaiwi on ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, his Family, and the Origins of Shī‘ī Islam

   Published: 18/07/2025
3. Seventh-Century History for Students of Western Esotericism

   Published: 13/05/2025
4. Introducing the Qur’an Part III: Qur’ānic Texts vs. the Qur’ān

   Published: 02/05/2025
5. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes

   Published: 18/04/2025
6. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History

   Published: 14/03/2025
7. Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām

   Published: 07/02/2025
8. Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, ‘the West’, and Western Esotericism

   Published: 21/01/2025
9. Introducing Islām

   Published: 03/01/2025
10. Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos

    Published: 25/12/2024
11. The Pseudo-Dionysios, the Esoteric, and (Christian) Mysticism

    Published: 22/12/2024
12. Naming Divine Nothingness: Introducing the Pseudo-Dionysios

    Published: 18/12/2024
13. One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

    Published: 22/10/2024
14. Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus

    Published: 16/10/2024
15. The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria

    Published: 18/09/2024
16. All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius

    Published: 11/09/2024
17. Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’

    Published: 28/08/2024
18. Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 30/07/2024
19. Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 24/07/2024
20. Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought

    Published: 29/05/2024