Islamic Philosophy in Contemporary Persia
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Islamic philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Islamic philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136781056 |
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.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791481557 |
A comprehensive overview of the Islamic philosophical tradition. AIslamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present offers a comprehensive overview of Islamic philosophy from the ninth century to the present day. As Seyyed Hossein Nasr attests, within this tradition, philosophizing is done in a world in which prophecy is the central reality of life—a reality related not only to the realms of action and ethics but also to the realm of knowledge. Comparisons with Jewish and Christian philosophies highlight the relation between reason and revelation, that is, philosophy and religion. Nasr presents Islamic philosophy in relation to the Islamic tradition as a whole, but always treats this philosophy as philosophy, not simply as intellectual history. In addition to chapters dealing with the general historical development of Islamic philosophy, several chapters are devoted to later and mostly unknown philosophers. The work also pays particular attention to the Persian tradition. Nasr stresses that the Islamic tradition is a living tradition with significance for the contemporary Islamic world and its relationship with the West. In providing this seminal introduction to a tradition little-understood in the West, Nasr also shows readers that Islamic philosophy has much to offer the contemporary world as a whole. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. He is the author and editor of many books, including Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization.
Author | : Ashk Dahlen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135943540 |
This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. It is within this broad examination of a living legacy of interpretation that the context for the concretizations of traditional as well as modern Islamic learning, are enclosed.
Author | : S. H. Nasr |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 2014-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857738127 |
Persia is home to one of the few civilizations in the world that has had a continuous tradition of philosophical thought lasting more than two and a half millennia. From the time Zoroaster brought the Gathas, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism, until today, it has had a philosophical tradition comprising diverse schools and various languages including Avestan and Pahlavi as well as Arabic and Persian. The West has seen surveys of Persian art and anthologies of Persian literature, but this work is the first to present a millennial tradition of philosophy in Persia in the form of translated selections and introductory sections for each period and figure. Existing translations have been used where possible but most of the selections have been newly translated for this work which, with the help of the explanatory introductions, makes possible an intellectual journey into a philosophical continent much of which has been uncharted for Westerners until now. The fifth and final volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with some seven centuries of Islamic thought stretching from the era following the Mongol invasion to the end of the Qajar period. Organized around the cities which became the main centres of philosophical activity during this long period, the volume is divided into three parts: 'The School of Shiraz', whose importance not only for Persia but also for Ottoman Turkey and Muslim India is only now being recognized; 'The School of Isfahan', which marks the integration of some eight centuries of Islamic thought and culminates with Mulla Sadra; and finally 'The School of Tehran', where traditional philosophy first encountered modern thought in Persia, bringing this series into present times.
Author | : S. H. Nasr |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Projected five-volume work covering the full expanse of Persian philosophical thought from the Zoroastrianism of the pre-Christian era up to the present day.
Author | : Reza Pourjavady |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004191739 |
This book is about a Muslim Shi’i philosopher of the early 16th century, Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Nayrizi. Educated in Shiraz, he became interested in Avicennan and Suhrawardian philosophy. Apart from Nayrizi, the present study introduces his contemporary philosophers and provides an outlines of the main philosophical challenges of the time.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Persian Sufist is the subject of volume 28 in the Library of Living Philosophers series. As in the other volumes of the series, the subject discusses his life and philosophical development in an intellectual autobiography. This is followed by 33 critical essays by various scholars and Nasr's replies to each of them.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : World Wisdom, Inc |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1933316381 |
"The highest honor a philosopher can receive is to be nominated by his peers for inclusion in the series of The Library of Living Philosophers [for which the] latest entry is The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. And the highest honor a theologian can receive is to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures in Glasgow, Scotland. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is the only person ever to have received both of these honors.... This valuable book distills the essence of the thought of one of the most important thinkers or our times." Book jacket.
Author | : Ulrich Rudolph |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2022-05-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004492542 |
A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with details of biography and doctrine as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works.