Illuminationist texts and textual studies : essays in memory of Hossein Ziai /

The late Professor Hossein Ziai's interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with...

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Other Authors: Ziai, Hossein (honouree.), Alwishah, Ahmed (Editor), Gheissari, Ali, 1954- (Editor), Walbridge, John (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Iran studies ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hossein Ziai
  • A bio-bibliographical introduction / Ali Gheissari
  • Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardi studies / John Walbridge
  • Suhrawardi and the philosophy of illumination
  • Illuminationist manuscripts : the rediscovery of al-Suhrawardi and its reception / John Walbridge
  • Some observations on the Kashf al-Ghitāʼ li-Ikhwān al-Safā /
  • Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl
  • Al-Suhrawardi's Creed of the sages / John Walbridge
  • The meaning and etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist philosophy / Malihe Karbassian
  • Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardi / Nasrollah Pourjavady
  • The Illuminationists or Suhrawardi's commentators
  • Suhrawardi and ibn Kammuna on the impossibility of having two necessary existents / Ahmed Alwisah
  • Ithbāt al-mabdaʼ by Saʻd bin Mansur ibn Kammuna : a philosophically oriented monotheistic ethic / Y. Tzvi Langermann
  • Constructing a world of its own : a translation of the chapter on the world of image from Shahrazuri's Rasāʼil al-shajara al-ilāhiyya / L.W.C. (Eric) van Lit and C.R. Lange
  • Shihab al-din al-Suhrawardi's "postscript" to his tablets of ʻimādiyya al-din and Najm al-din al-Nayrizi's commentary on it / Reza Pourjavady
  • The wider tradition
  • Takmil al-mantiq : a sixteenth century Arabic manual on logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb
  • Alfarabi's purposes of Aristotle's metaphysics and Avicenna's 'eastern' philosophy / Charles E. Butterworth
  • Mind the gap : the reception of Avicenna's new argument against actually infinite space / Jon McGinnis
  • Translation of Mullā Sadrā's the traveler's provision (Zād al-musāfer) / Eiyad S. al-Kutubi.