Universal Science
Subtitle: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 20, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789004343023
Description: The 'Universal Science ('Ilm-i kulli) by Mahdi Ha'iri Yazdi, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the 'living tradition' of Shi'i philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shi'i intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.
Notes: Source title: Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics (Modern Shīʿah Library)