Author : Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʼī
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
This is a new approach to the teaching of Islamic philosophy that provides a useful overview of 20th century philosophy in Iran.
Author : Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1907905383
The Elements of Islamic Metaphysics, an English translation of Sayyid Tabataba’i’s Bidayat al-Hikmah, is a succinct manual that represents a new approach to the teaching of Islamic philosophy. It provides a useful overview of twentieth-century philosophy in Iran, and traces the development of philosophical thought in the context of a religious tradition whose intellectual character was determined to a large extent by the contents of the Qur’anic revelation and the prophetic teachings. At the same time, it demonstrates how philosophical thought is by nature independent of religious doctrine and differs from theology, which depends on revelation and tradition. The translation is accompanied by a glossary of philosophical terms and explanatory notes. This second edition has been carefully revised for clarity. The terminology has been updated and new annotations have been added.
Author : Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004343113
The Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, 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 Shīʿī 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 Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.
Author : Majid Fakhry
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231132206
The first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present, this classic discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. Fakhry shows how Islamic philosophy has followed from the earliest times a distinctive line of development, which gives it the unity and continuity that are the marks of the great intellectual movements of history.
Author : Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107244595
The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism has been the dominant account of natural kinds among philosophers, but the essentialist view has encountered resistance, especially among naturalist metaphysicians and philosophers of science. Informed by detailed examination of classification in the natural and social sciences, this book argues against essentialism and for a naturalist account of natural kinds. By looking at case studies drawn from diverse scientific disciplines, from fluid mechanics to virology and polymer science to psychiatry, the author argues that natural kinds are nodes in causal networks. On the basis of this account, he maintains that there can be natural kinds in the social sciences as well as the natural sciences.
Author : Syed Muhammad Naquib al–Attas
Publisher : Penerbit UTM Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 983520926X
This book defines, perhaps for the first time in the history of the intellectual and religious tradition of Islam, the meaning of worldview from the perspective of Islam. The definition is articulated in the gathering together of the fundamental elements in the vision of reality and truth that projects the worldview of Islam into a meaningful whole. This articulation of the definition involves also explanation and contradiction of the challenges to that vision encountered throughout the ages to the present time.
Author : Henry Corbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135198896
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ahmed Alwishah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107101735
Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.
Author : Christian Jambet
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Exploring the thought of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of the seventeenth century: a universe of politics, morality, liberty, and order that is indispensable to our understanding of Islamic thought and spirituality.
Author : William C. Chittick
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780873955102
Created by the Prophet Muhammad and his twelve Imams, the Hadith is an ancient and profoundly influential body of religious texts in Shi'ite Muslim literature, second in importance only to the Holy Koran itself. Texts on the practical aspects of life and pure metaphysics are included in this first English translations of excerpts from the Hadith. Especially selected for the Western reader by the renowned Islamic scholar Tabataba'i, the passages from the Hadith shed light on the culture, history, law, and theology of the Shi'ite community and provide direct translations of some of the most famous of Islamic prayers.
