The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

Islamic philosophy

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.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Richmond, Surrey England : Curzon Press

Mehdi Amin Razavi

1. Mysticism and traditional philosophy in Persia, pre-Islamic and Islamic -- 2. Cosmography in pre-Islamic and Islamic Persia. The question of the continuity of Iranian culture -- 3. The tradition of Islamic philosophy in Persia and its significance for the modern world -- 4. The significance of Persian philosophical works in the tradition of Islamic philosophy -- 5. Why was al-Farabi called the Second Teacher? -- 6. Ibn Sina: a general survey -- 7. Ibn Sina's prophetic philosophy -- 8. Biruni as philosophe -- 9. Biruni versus Ibn Sina on the nature of the universe -- 10. Nasir-i Khusraw: the philosopher-poet -- 11. Fakhr al-Din Razi -- 12. Suhrawardi: a general survey -- 13. The Persian works of Shaykh al-Ishraq Suhrawardi -- 14. The spread of the illuminationist school of Suhrawardi -- 15. Omar Khayyam: philosopher-poet-scientist -- 16. The world view and philosophical perspective of Hakim Nizami Ganjawi -- 17. Afdal al-Din Kashani and the philosophical world of Khwajah Nasir al-Din Tusi -- 18. Muhammad ibn Muhammad Nasir al-Din Tusi -- 19. Qutb al-Din Shirazi -- 20. The status of Rashid al-Din Fadallah in the history of Islam philosophy and science -- 21. The School of Isfahan -- 22. Sadr al-Din Shirazi -- 23. Mulla Hadi Sabziwari -- 24. Islamic philosophical activity in contemporary Persia: a survey of activity in the 50's and 60's.

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