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Author : World Congress on Mulla Sadra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 964747203X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 9647472137
Author : Muhammad Kamal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317093695
Sadradin Shirazi (1571-1640), known also as Mulla Sadra, spoke of the primacy of Being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. Mulla Sadra's ontology is an important philosophical turn and contribution to the understanding of the development of Muslim philosophy and thought. This comprehensive study of Mulla Sadra's philosophical thought explores his departure from tradition; his turn to the doctrine of the primacy of Being; the dynamic characteristics of Being and the concept of substantial change; comparisons with Heidegger's fundamental ontology; and the influence of Mulla Sadra's ontology on subsequent Muslim philosophy. Of particular value to students of philosophy, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, philosophy of religion, and general readers who seek to understand Muslim philosophy, this book explores the significance of the doctrine of Mulla Sadra and its impact on subsequent debates in the Muslim world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 9647472382
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 964747251X
Author : Reza Akbarian,Riz̤ā Akbariyān
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000128966573
Mulla Sadra, known also as Sadr al-Muta'allihin, the greatest Iranian-Muslim philosopher and founding father of the Transcendent Philosophy', was born in Shiraz, Iran in the year 1571 and died in 1641. His writings focus on philosophy and commentaries on the Qur'an and Al-Usul Al-Kafi. His most important philosophical writings include Al-Asfar Al-Arba at Al- Aqliyyah, Al-Shawahid Al-Rububiyya, Al-Hikamat Al- Arshiyya, Kitab Al-Masha ir, and Al-Mabda' wa Al-Ma ad. The present work consists of five chapters, written on two categories: The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School, and Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and Other Philosophers. Several years of work enabled Dr Akbarian to complete some parts of this project, which concerns the relation of Mulla Sadra to the totality of the Islamic tradition, and the characteristics of his Transcendent Philosophy' being used in its original sense. We hope, therefore, that in this form the work will serve as a complete intro¬duction to the teachings of Sadr al-Muta'allihin in philosophy, as well as aid in making better known the doctrine of Mulla Sadra in synthesising between revelation, illumination and ratiocination in a world which is suffering so grievously as a result of it having separated these paths to the Truth from each other. Chapter One of this book discusses the question of what Transcendent Philosophy' is. When we turn to the writings of Mulla Sadra himself, we do not find any passages in which he explicitly designates his own school as Transcendent Philosophy' (al-hikmat al-muta'aliyah). Mulla Sadra expands the mean¬ing of falsafah to include the dimension of illumination and realisation as implied by the ishraqi and also Sufi understanding of the term. For him, as for his contemporaries as well as most of his successors, falsafah or philosophy was perceived as the supreme science of ultimately divine origin, derived from the niche of prophecy', and the hukama' as the most perfect of human beings, standing in rank only below the prophets and Imams. This conception that philosophy deals with discovering the truth concerning the nature of things, and that it combines mental knowl¬edge with the purification and perfection of one's being, has lasted to this day wherever the tradition of Islamic philosophy has continued; it is in fact embodied in the very being of the most eminent representatives of the Islamic philosophical tradition thus far. Both their works and their lives were testimony, not only to over a millennium of concern by Islamic philosophers with regards to the meaning of the concept and the term philosophy', but also to the significance of the Islamic definition of philosophy as that reality which transforms both the mind and the soul and which is ultim¬ately never separated from the spiritual purity and ultimately, the sanctity that the very term hikmah implies in the Islamic context. Chapter Two, "Being and its various polarizations", consists of four sections: 1. Existence as a Predicate; 2. The Metaphysical Distinction between Quiddity' and Existence' (The Fundamental Principle of Ibn Sina's Ontology); 3. The Principle of Primacy of Existence' over Quiddity' and its Philosophical Results; 4. Mulla Sadra's Proof of God's Existence (Burhan-e Siddiqin/The Argument of the Righteous). The question of existence as a predicate' enjoys an outstanding significance from the historical and comparative point of view. Kant, the eminent German philosopher, claimed that existence could not be a real predicate for its own subject since existence is not a concept that could add anything to an object. According to Kant, existence in its logical sense is, merely, copula (rabit) rather than either of the terms. The copula of the proposition on the other hand, does not indicate something that owns a real referent. Its exclusive role is, rather, to establish a nexus between the predicate and the subject. Mulla Sadra accepts existence as an
Author : Muhammad Kamal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317093701
Sadradin Shirazi (1571-1640), known also as Mulla Sadra, spoke of the primacy of Being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. Mulla Sadra's ontology is an important philosophical turn and contribution to the understanding of the development of Muslim philosophy and thought. This comprehensive study of Mulla Sadra's philosophical thought explores his departure from tradition; his turn to the doctrine of the primacy of Being; the dynamic characteristics of Being and the concept of substantial change; comparisons with Heidegger's fundamental ontology; and the influence of Mulla Sadra's ontology on subsequent Muslim philosophy. Of particular value to students of philosophy, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, philosophy of religion, and general readers who seek to understand Muslim philosophy, this book explores the significance of the doctrine of Mulla Sadra and its impact on subsequent debates in the Muslim world.
Author : Seyyed Khalil Toussi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032173505
This book provides a comprehensive and widely accessible analysis of Mullā Sadrā's works in order to establish the nature of his political philosophy and seeks to instigate a dialogue on the relevance of Sadrā's philosophy to present day challenges.
Author : Ali Paya
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781904063575
Comparative philosophy, like other types of philosophy, is a sort of dialogue among philosophers. But whereas dialogue among philosophers in the traditional branches of philosophy is usually in the form of duologue, in comparative philosophy three interlocutors are involved. Participants in a dialogue of the type which is common in comparative philosophy need not be contemporaneous. Nor do they need to speak the same language or belong to the same tradition. Of the three interlocutors in a dialogue of the type relevant to comparative philosophy, the one who plays the role of the go-between among the other two is the true practitioner of ‘comparative philosophy’ or, to coin a term, the true ‘comparative philosopher’, i.e, the one who is actually engaged in the process of comparing philosophies and reflecting upon the finesse of the art of comparison of views. The comparative philosopher is an interpreter, a commentator, a critic, a connoisseur of good philosophical arguments and interesting ideas, an educator, and a communicator. This last characteristic pertains to the role the comparative philosopher plays vis-à-vis contemporary and future audiences.
Author : Reza Akbarian,Seyed Safavi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1441580832
The nature and significance of the philosophy of Mulla Sadra cannot be fully understood by those who approach it as if there had been nothing before it. When he himself began to teach philosophy, Mulla Sadra was well aware of the general context i.e. Islamic philosophy in which his own work was necessarily going to be done. To attempt to bring out the meaning of this philosophy would be to commit oneself to the production of some proof of its existence-or to the admission that it never existed. Here, however, I found myself face to face with the same kind of difficulty although on another plane; for if the existence of a philosophy in the Islamic world has been denied, the very idea of an Islamic philosophy has been held to be impossible. It will be found, then, this book converges to this conclusion: that Islamic civilization pro¬duced, besides Islamic literature and art as everyone admits this very Islamic philosophy which is a matter of dispute. No one, of course, maintains that Islamic philosophy was created out of nothing, nor yet that all philosophy in Islamic world was Islamic-just, as no one maintains that Islamic literature and art were created out of nothing or were wholly Islamic. The word Islamic philosophy does not belong to the philosophy of Mulla Sadra, but it is the name under which, in his Asfar, Mulla Sadra designated the doctrine of the Common Doctor of revealed teachings in Qur'an and Hadith. Such as it is described in this text, Islamic philosophy is that way of phi¬losophizing in which the Islamic faith and the human intellect join forces in a common investigation of philosophical truth. The study and the teaching of Islamic philosophy are both beset with many difficulties. First of all, in the form it has been given by Mulla Sadra, it presupposes for its understanding an elementary knowl¬edge of the philosophy of Aristotle. The study of the Philosopher takes time, and when the moment comes for the student to tackle the doctrine of Mulla Sadra himself he still needs to be trained in the art of uniting the light of faith and the light of the intellect. Another difficulty arises from the philosophical method followed by Mulla Sadra in those very works in which his own philosophical views are found in their purity, namely, Asfar and the long series. As a philosopher, Mulla Sadra felt perfectly free to draw arguments from many and diverse philosophies and to confirm his conclusions by means of all sorts of reasons whose very multiplicity is liable to embarrass beginners. This complex situation is the problem to which the present book seeks to bring, if not a solution, at least a working introduction. Such is: first and foremost, the specific nature of the way in which we use philosophy according to the view of Mulla Sadra; second, the notion of being, including the consequences it entails for the doctrine of the transcendental; last, not least, the impact of this same notion on the many philosophical problems in whose data it is included -God, substance, efficient causality, creation, the structure of finite being, the nature and unity of man, the soul, the human intellect and its object. These and other key notions are so many basic doctrines that need to be correctly understood before the student attempts to face the colossal array of particular questions and answers, objections and re¬plies, that make up the body of the Islamic philosophy of Mulla Sadra. To a man of the third century in Islamic world, what did the term "philosopher" mean? A philosopher was a man who, born before Islam, could not have been informed of the truth of Islamic Revelation. Such was the situation of Alfarabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra. Wisdom and knowledge are here directed primarily towards knowing divine things and employed to teach them. It is however our intention to prove Islamic philosophy's existence by showing in what it consists, leaving to those who would like to undertake it, the task of demonstrating w
Author : Sajjad H. Rizvi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134008582
Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna. In this exploration of his philosophy, Sajjad H. Rizvi examines the central doctrine of the modulation of being, and contextualises his work within the intellectual history of philosophical traditions in the Islamic East. Reading and critiquing the works of Mulla Sadra from an analytical perspective, this book pays particular attention to his text the Asfar, a work which, due to its complexity, is often overlooked. Looking at the concept of philosophy as a way of life and a therapeutic practice, this book explores the paradigm of the modulation of being in the philosophical method and metaphysics of Mulla Sadra and considers its different manifestations. Rizvi relates his philosophy to larger trends and provides a review of the field, charting and critiquing the discussion on the topic to date and exploring recent thought in this direction, to show how Sadrian thought was addressed well into the 19th and 20th centuries. This major contribution to the study of Mulla Sadra and the intellectual life of the Safavid period fills an important gap in the field of Sadra studies and Islamic philosophy, and is indispensable to students of philosophy, religion and Islamic studies, and Islamic philosophy in particular.
Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047411697
Since the publication of the author ́s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY in 1999 more than 3000 new books and articles in the field of Islamic philosophy, its Greek sources and its aftermath in European philosophy appeared and illustrate the increasing interest of the Islamic and the Western world. Philosophical thought as part of the Islamic culture became a medium in the dialogue between cultures and a tool for reflexion and methodology, which are indispensable for creativity and human behaviour. This supplement covers all new publications as far as they were available and could be included in the extensive index on authors, texts, translations and commentaries, and philosophical terms and concepts.
Author : Muhammad Kamal
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781904063377
In a unique parallel analysis, Muhammad Kamal delves into the most controversial subjects of Islamic and Western existential philosophy. He describes the philosophical ‘turn’, ontological difference, becoming, and nothingness in the ontology of Mulla Sadra and Martin Heidegger. Through analysing the ontological enterprises of Sadra and Heidegger, Kamal shows how they both held that Being is the sole reality, and how both stood in opposition to Plato’s metaphysics. Despite hailing from different regions and eras, both Sadra and Heidegger viewed Plato’s philosophy as an established philosophical tradition which led to a state of untruth, or what Heidegger would have called ‘the oblivion of Being’. As Kamal explicates, Heidegger’s opposition to Plato became manifest in his deconstruction of the history of ontology, while Mulla Sadra’s opposition to Plato emerged through his criticism of the Iranian philosopher Suhrawardi’s doctrine of the principality of essence. These new interpretations of being by two philosophers brought new life to both Islamic and Western schools of philosophy and have formed the basis of much of modern ontology, epistemology, and philosophical psychology.
Author : Ibrahim Kalin,İbrahim Kalın
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199735242
The concept of knowledge has occupied a central place in the Islamic intellectual tradition. While Muslim philosophers haveadopted the Greek ideas of knowledge, they have also developed new approaches and broadened the study of knowledge. The challenge of reconciling revealed knowledge with unaided reason and intuitive knowledge has led to an extremely productive debate among Muslims intellectuals in the classicalperiod. In a culture where knowledge has provided both spiritual perfection and social status, Muslim scholars have created a remarkable discourse of knowledge and vastly widened the scope of what it means to know.
Author : Sayeh Meisami
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780743349
A timely biography on the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years Mulla Sadra (572 - 1640) is perhaps the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years. The author of over forty works, he sought to bring to life the whole heritage of Islamic thought, from philosophy to mysticism, and create a more flexible and conciliatory approach to the problems which seemed to dissociate reason from faith. In this wide-ranging profile, Sayeh Meisami reaches beyond historical narrative to assess the true impact of the man and his ideas. This thought provoking and comprehensive account is ideal for any philosopher wanting to uncover the life and thoughts of a man who represents the climax of intellectual tradition at a crucial point in the history of Islamic civilization.