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.
Author(s): Ali Gheissari, Ahmed Alwishah, John Wallbridge, (Eds.)
Series: Iran Studies
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 326
Tags: Iranian, Iran, Persian, Farsi, Literature
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Note on Contributors......Page 16
Part 1 Introduction......Page 21
Chapter 1 Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction......Page 23
Chapter 2 Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies......Page 33
Part 2 Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination......Page 39
Chapter 3 Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception......Page 41
Chapter 4 Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ......Page 62
Chapter 5 Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages......Page 86
Chapter 6 The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy......Page 106
Chapter 7 The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī......Page 116
Part 3 The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators......Page 133
Chapter 8 Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents......Page 135
Chapter 9 Ithbāt al-Mabda ʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic......Page 155
Chapter 10 Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazūrī’s Rasāʾil al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya......Page 180
Chapter 11 Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It......Page 199
Part 4 The Wider Tradition......Page 217
Chapter 12 Takmīl al-Manṭiq: A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Manual on Logic......Page 219
Chapter 13 Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy......Page 277
Chapter 14 Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space......Page 292
Chapter 15 Translation of Mullā Ṣadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfir)......Page 326
Index......Page 347
