Sayeh Meisami is Professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton. She received her a PhD in analytic philosophy from the University of Tehran in 2005 and a second PhD in Islamic philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2016. Professor Meisami is author of Mulla Sadra (2013), Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (2018), and Nasir al-Din Tusi: A Philosopher for All Seasons (2019). Her latest book, Exploring Islamic Philosophy (2025), presents an accessible introduction to Islamic philosophy by drawing on metaphysical concepts as connectors among different areas of inquiry, including theories about reality, knowledge, the soul, good and evil, gender, power, and ecology. Professor Meisami’s current research focuses on the intersections between Neoplatonism, Quranic narrative, poetics, and Persian myth in the writings of the Islamic philosophers.
