The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mullā Sadrā

The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mullā Sadrā

Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641
Ontology
Islamic philosophy -- Greek influences
Sufism

"This study by Christian Jambet explores the essential merits of the philosophical system of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of the seventeenth century. The writings of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571-1640) bear witness to the divine revelation in every act of being, from the most humble to the most eminent. More generally, Islamic philosophy employs an ontology that belongs to our own universe of thought. Jambet's study seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real, nourished by the Sufism of Ibn al-Arabi, the philosophy of classic Islam, the thought inherited from the Greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimensions of Shi'ism."--Jacket.

Christian Jambet

New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press

translated by Jeff Fort

I. The witness of the real -- II. The light of being -- III. The Avicennian moment -- IV. Freedom and intensity -- V. Essential motion -- VI. Births of the soul -- VII. The imagination -- VIII. A philosophy of spirit -- IX. The return into god -- X. The god of epiphanies.

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