Illuminationist texts and textual studies
Subtitle: essays in memory of Hossein Ziai
By: edited by Ali Gheissari, John Walbridge, Ahmed Alwishah
Series: Iran studies -- volume 16; Iran studies -- v. 16.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9789004356580; 9789004358393
Subjects: Ishrāqīyah; Islamic philosophy
Description: 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 the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it. The focus of various chapters is on translations, editions, and close expositions of rationalist works in areas such as epistemology, logic and metaphysics rather than mysticism more generally, and also on specific texts rather than themes or studies of individual philosophers. The purpose of the volume is to introduce new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy. Various texts in this volume have not been previously translated nor have they been the subject of significant Western scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Hossein Ziai; title: A bio-bibliographical introduction / Ali Gheissari; title: Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardi studies / John Walbridge; title: Suhrawardi and the philosophy of illumination; title: Illuminationist manuscripts : the rediscovery of al-Suhrawardi and its reception / John Walbridge; title: Some observations on the Kashf al-Ghitāʼ li-Ikhwān al-Safā /; title: Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl; title: Al-Suhrawardi's Creed of the sages / John Walbridge; title: The meaning and etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist philosophy / Malihe Karbassian; title: Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardi / Nasrollah Pourjavady; title: The Illuminationists or Suhrawardi's commentators; title: Suhrawardi and ibn Kammuna on the impossibility of having two necessary existents / Ahmed Alwisah; title: Ithbāt al-mabdaʼ by Saʻd bin Mansur ibn Kammuna : a philosophically oriented monotheistic ethic / Y. Tzvi Langermann; title: 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; title: 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; title: The wider tradition; title: Takmil al-mantiq : a sixteenth century Arabic manual on logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb; title: Alfarabi's purposes of Aristotle's metaphysics and Avicenna's 'eastern' philosophy / Charles E. Butterworth; title: Mind the gap : the reception of Avicenna's new argument against actually infinite space / Jon McGinnis; title: Translation of Mullā Sadrā's the traveler's provision (Zād al-musāfer) / Eiyad S. al-Kutubi.