Illuminationist texts and textual studies : essays in memory of Hossein Ziai /

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 wit...

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Other Authors: Ziai, Hossein., Alwishah, Ahmed., Gheissari, Ali, 1954-, Walbridge, John.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Iran Studies 16.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

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Call Number: BP189.7.I74 I45 2018

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction /
  • Ali Gheissari
  • Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies /
  • John Walbridge
  • Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception /
  • John Walbridge
  • Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ /
  • Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl
  • Suhrawardī's Creed of the Sages /
  • John Walbridge
  • The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy /
  • Malihe Karbassian
  • The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī /
  • Nasrollah Pourjavady
  • Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents /
  • Ahmed Alwishah
  • Ithbāt al-Mabdaʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic /
  • Y. Tzvi Langermann
  • Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazūrī's Rasāʾil al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya /
  • L.W. Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange
  • Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī's "Postscript" to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī's Commentary on It /
  • Reza Pourjavady
  • Takmīl al-Manṭiq: A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Manual on Logic /
  • Khaled El-Rouayheb
  • Fārābī's Purposes of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Avicenna's 'Eastern' Philosophy /
  • Charles E. Butterworth
  • Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna's New Argument against Actually Infinite Space /
  • Jon McGinnis
  • Translation of Mullā Ṣadrā's The Traveler's Provision (Zād al-Musāfir) /
  • Eiyad S. al-Kutubi
  • Index.