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

209 Episodes

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

   Published: 7/25/2025
2. Ahab Bdaiwi on ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, his Family, and the Origins of Shī‘ī Islam

   Published: 7/18/2025
3. Seventh-Century History for Students of Western Esotericism

   Published: 5/13/2025
4. Introducing the Qur’an Part III: Qur’ānic Texts vs. the Qur’ān

   Published: 5/2/2025
5. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes

   Published: 4/18/2025
6. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History

   Published: 3/14/2025
7. Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām

   Published: 2/7/2025
8. Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, ‘the West’, and Western Esotericism

   Published: 1/21/2025
9. Introducing Islām

   Published: 1/3/2025
10. Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/18/2024
16. All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius

    Published: 9/11/2024
17. Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’

    Published: 8/28/2024
18. Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 7/30/2024
19. Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 7/24/2024
20. Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought

    Published: 5/29/2024