The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

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Psychology Press, 1996 - 375 страница
This 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.
 

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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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Born in Tehran, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the son of an educator, received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1958, after which he returned to Iran to teach and eventually to become a university chancellor. He was compelled to leave his native country after the revolution of 1979 and since then has taught in universities in the United States. Deeply influenced by the mystical Sufi tradition, Nasr is less concerned with reconciling the faith with modernism and is more concerned with presenting a traditionalist, though mystical, interpretation of religion that offers a way out of the contradictions of modernity. Through authentic spiritual experience, Nasr holds, one can penetrate the superficiality of modern scientific and other knowledge to find eternal truth. He is associated with the neotraditionalist school of philosophy. Undoubtedly, Nasr has had more general influence in the Western philosophical world than any other contemporary philosopher in the Islamic tradition.

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