Metaphysical Penetrations: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (Islamic Translation) - Hardcover

Sadra, Mulla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0842528393 ISBN 13: 9780842528399

Verlag: Brigham Young University Press, 2014

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Mulla Sadra (ca. 15721640) is one of the most prominent figures of post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy and among the most important philosophers of Safavid Persia. He was a prolific writer whose work advanced the fields of intellectual and religious science in Islamic philosophy, but arguably his most important contribution to Islamic philosophy is in the study of existence (wujud) and its application to such areas as cosmology, epistemology, psychology, and eschatology. Sadra represents a paradigm shift from the Aristotelian metaphysics of fixed substances, which had dominated Islamic philosophy, to an analysis of existence as the ultimate ground and dynamic source of things. He posits that all beings derive their reality and truth from their wujud and that a proper philosophical analysis must therefore start and eventually end with it. The present works focus on Sadras gradational ontology provides a strong foundation for the reader to understand Sadras other works and later texts by other philosophers working in the same field. This edition contains parallel English-Arabic texts and a new translation by preeminent scholar of Islamic philosophy Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr is the University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University. Ibrahim Kalin currently serves as chief advisor to the prime minister of Turkey and is a fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. They live in Washington, DC.

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• Verlag: Brigham Young University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0842528393
• ISBN 13: 9780842528399
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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