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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| 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.