Kitab al-qabasat
Subtitle: the book of blazing brands
By: Mir Damad ; a draft English translation, introduction, and notes by Keven Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Keven.
Publisher: Global Scholarly Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592670680
Subjects: Philosophy, Islamic -- Iran -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Book of blazing brands
Work titles: Qabasāt.
Notes: "Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad 'Alawi's Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qabasāt."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Translator's introduction; title: Mir Damad's introduction; title: 1st qabas. On the kinds of creation (huduth) and the divisions of existence according to them, establishing the bases of judgment, and defining the area of dispute; title: 2nd qabas. On the three kinds of essential antecedence and constructing the demonstration by way of essential priority (taqaddum bi'l-dhat); title: 3rd qabas. The two kinds of separate posteriority and constituting the demonstration by way of eternal priority; title: 4th qabas. Quotations from the book of god and the traditions of his messenger, and from the traditions of the lofty and pure imams; title: 5th qabas. Concerning the mode of existence of the unqualified natures and the path of the demonstration by the mode of the existence of the nature; title: 6th qabas. On the continuity of time and motion; setting up the course of the demonstration with respect to the continuity of the magnitude of time according to the natural system in two ways; establishing the finitude of extended continuous quantity; and invalidating a numerical infinity; title: With respect to successive temporal creatures; title: 7th qabas. A series of abridged arguments, unsound dialectical arguments, and criticism of certain syllogisms and controversial sophistical doubts according to the two extremes of the two groups; title: 8th qabas. Inquiry into the power of God and his will after completing what remains in the care of the intellect, through the use of decisive utterance, to solve some of the difficulties and dilemmas caused by doubt and the confusions arising from idle fancies; title: 9th qabas. On establishing the intelligible substances and the stages of the system of existence in the two chains of beginning and return; title: 10th qabas. The decisive doctrine on the secret of predetermination (qada') and fate (qadar), how evil is related to predetermination, the colocynth of truth on prayer and its granting, and the return of the command to god in the beginning and the end; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography.