Knowledge and power in the philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī /

This is a comparative study of two major Shi'i thinkers, Hamid al-Din Kirmani from the Fatimid Egypt and Mulla Sadra from the Safavid Iran, demonstrating the mutual empowerment of discourses on knowledge formation and religio-political authority in certain Isma'ili and Twelver contexts. Th...

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Main Author:	Meisami, Sayeh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:	Kirmānī, Ḥamīd al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, > active 1020. Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, > -1641. Islamic philosophy.