Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies

Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35658-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Iran Studies

The late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishraqi) 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gheissari, Ali

Alwishah, Ahmed

Wallbridge, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Note on Contributors
I. Introduction

1. Ali Gheissari, “Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio Bibliographical Introduction”
2. John Walbridge, “Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardi Studies”

II. Suhrawardi and the Philosophy of Illumination

3. John Walbridge, “Illuminationist Manuscripts: Rediscovery and Reception of Suhrawardi”
4. Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghita’ li Ikhwan al-Safa.” Translation of Kashf al-Ghita’ by John Walbridge
5. John Walbridge, “Suhrawardi’s Creed of the Sages”
6. Malihe Karbassian, “The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy”
7. Nasrollah Pourjavady, “Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardi”

III. The Illuminationists or Suhrawardi’s Commentators

8. Ahmed Alwishah, “Suhrawardi and Ibn Kammuna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents”
9. Y. Tzvi Langermann, “Ithbat al-Mabda’ by Sa'd ibn Mansur ibn Kammuna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic”
10. L.W.Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange, “Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazurii’s Rasa’il al-Shajarah al-Ilahiiyya”
11. Reza Pourjavady, “Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of 'Imad al-Din and Najm Din Nayrizi’s Commentary on It”

IV. The Wider Tradition

12. Khaled El-Rouayheb, “Takmiil al-Mantiq: A Sixteenth Century Arabic Manual on Logic”
13. Charles Butterworth, Farabi’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy”
14. Jon McGinnis, “Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space”
15. Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, “Translation of Mulla Sadra’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zad al-Musafier)”

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Gheissari D. Phil. University of Oxford, is Professor of History at the University of San Diego with research interest in the intellectual history of modern Iran. He has written extensively in Persian and English on modern Iranian history and on modern philosophy and social theory. His publications include Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century 1998; reissued, 2008; Persian translation of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics with Hamid Enayat, 1991; new edition with revisions, 2015, amongst numerous other books and articles. Ali Gheissari is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Iranian Studies.

John Walbridge, Ph.D. Harvard, is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington. His academic specialty is post-classical Islamic philosophy, particularly the Illuminationist school, though he has also published on Islamic science and medicine and Islamic studies more generally. He is the author, co-author, or translator of nine books, including three monographs on Suhrawardi and the Illuminationist school.

Ahmed Alwishah, Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges and a life member of Clare Hall College at Cambridge University. His research focuses on Islamic philosophy and philosophy of language in Islamic tradition. He is the co-editor of Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, 2015, and Ibn Kammuna Refinement and Commentary of Suhrawardi’s Intimations, 2002 amongst other publications.

Contributors:

Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, Ahmed Alwishah, Charles Butterworth, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ali Gheissari, Malihe Karbassian, Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, Christian Lange, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Jon McGinnis, Nasrollah Pourjavady, Reza Pourjavady, L.W. Cornelis van Lit, John Walbridge