The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in PersiaThis volume gathers together the numerous essays by the Iranian metaphysician and ontologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophers and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. Brought together into a single volume for the first time, these essays span four decades of Nasr's prolific and learned scholarship on the development of Islamic philosophy, as well as the general history of Islam, and expound his belief that philosophy is not merely a rational but a sacred activity - a quest for the Eternal resulting from a longing within us all to return to our original, and true, selves. |
Contents
Mysticism and Traditional Philosophy in Persia PreIslamic and Islamic | 3 |
Cosmography in PreIslamic and Islamic Persia The Question of the Continuity of Iranian Culture | 10 |
PhilosopherPoetScientist 175 | 16 |
The Tradition of Islamic Philosophy in Persia and its Significance for the Modern World | 28 |
The Significance of Persian Philosophical Works in the Tradition of Islamic Philosophy | 47 |
EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY | 57 |
Why was alFārābī called the Second Teacher? | 59 |
A General Survey | 66 |
The Persian Works of Shaykh alIshraq Suhrawardī | 154 |
The Spread of the Illuminationist School of Suhrawardi | 161 |
Ḥakīm Nizāmī Ganjawī | 178 |
Afḍal alDin Kāshānī and the Philosophical World of Khwajah Naşir alDin Tūsī | 189 |
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Naṣīr alDīn Ṭūsī | 207 |
Qutb alDin Shīrāzī | 216 |
The Status of Rashid alDin Faḍallāh in the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science | 228 |
LATER ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY | 237 |
Ibn Sinas Prophetic Philosophy | 76 |
Bīrūnī as Philosophe | 92 |
Bīrūnī versus Ibn Sīnā on the Nature of the Universe | 100 |
The PhilosopherPoet | 103 |
Fakhr alDin Rāzī | 106 |
A General Survey | 125 |
The School of Isfahan | 239 |
Şadr alDin Shīrāzi | 271 |
Mullā Hādī Sabziwārī | 304 |
ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN MODERN IRAN | 321 |
A Survey of Activity in the 50s and 60s | 323 |
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The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi,Seyyed Hossein Nasr Limited preview - 2013 |
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