Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics: 2 - Brossura

Mehd Ir Yazd; Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad

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ISBN 10: 9004343342 ISBN 13: 9789004343344

Casa editrice: BRILL, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mehd Hir-Yazd (19231999) (Ph.D. University of Toronto) was an eminent Sh intellectual. He taught at Harvard and Oxford, and was Professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Tehran. He was the author of several diverse texts ranging from epistemology to political theory. John Cooper (19471998) was E.G Browne Lecturer in Persian at the University of Cambridge. He studied at Cambridge and the Islamic seminary in Qum, Iran. He was the general editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, as well as a prolific author and translator. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (Ph.D, Princeton University) is Reader in Shah Studies at the Shah Institute. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, contributed to several journals, and is the author of a critical edition of Ibn Arabs Fu al-ikam (Cairo, 2015).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: BRILL
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004343342
• ISBN 13: 9789004343344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226
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