Modern Iranian Philosophy

Author : Iraj Bashiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516552539

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Modern Iranian Philosophy by Iraj Bashiri Pdf

Modern Iranian Philosophy: From Ibn Sīnā to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī is a concise overview of developments in Iranian philosophy from ancient times to the seventeenth century, emphasizing the era beginning with Ibn Sīnā and ending with Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī. The text places Iranian philosophy within the framework of Islamic philosophy, details the emergence of a popular theology stemming from interaction between Zoroastrianism and Islam, and addresses efforts to establish Shīʿite orthodoxy. The book explains Mullā Ṣadrā's theory of existence and its contribution to Twelver Shīʿite orthodoxy. It explores Mullā Ṣadrā's al-Asfār, its structural makeup, and assesses the effect of Ṣadrā's theory on the Islamic Republic of Iran created by Ayatollah Khomeini. In addition, the material offers valuable insight into contemporary events through chapters addressing the meeting of east and west. Scholarly and sensitive, Modern Iranian Philosophy is appropriate for upper-division undergraduate courses. It can also be used in graduate level courses and as a tool for researchers. Iraj Bashiri received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches Ancient Iran among other courses. His published works include The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century, and Samanids and the Revival of the Civilization of Iranian Peoples. Dr. Bashiri's work, Impact of Egypt on Ancient Iran, offers a new view of the interaction between ancient Persia and Egypt, while his interpretation of Firdowsi's Shahname brings the mythical hero-saints of Iran to life. He is a recipient of the CLA Distinguished Teaching Award and is currently involved in research on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi.

Author : Iraj Bashiri
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Philosophy, Iranian
ISBN : 1621317838

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"Modern Iranian Philosophy: From Ibn S n to Mull adr Sh r z " is a concise overview of developments in Iranian philosophy from ancient times to the seventeenth century, emphasizing the era beginning with Ibn S n and ending with Mull adr Sh r z . The text places Iranian philosophy within the framework of Islamic philosophy, details the emergence of a popular theology stemming from interaction between Zoroastrianism and Islam, and addresses efforts to establish Sh ite orthodoxy. The book explains Mull adr 's theory of existence and its contribution to Twelver Sh ite orthodoxy. It explores Mull adr 's al-Asf r, its structural makeup, and assesses the effect of adr 's theory on the Islamic Republic of Iran created by Ayatollah Khomeini. In addition, the material offers valuable insight into contemporary events through chapters addressing the meeting of east and west. Scholarly and sensitive, "Modern Iranian Philosophy" is appropriate for upper-division undergraduate courses. It can also be used in graduate level courses and as a tool for researchers. Iraj Bashiri received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches Ancient Iran among other courses. His published works include "The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal al-Din Rumi," "The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat," "Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century," and "Samanids and the Revival of the Civilization of Iranian Peoples." Dr. Bashiri's work, "Impact of Egypt on Ancient Iran," offers a new view of the interaction between ancient Persia and Egypt, while his interpretation of Firdowsi's "Shahname" brings the mythical hero-saints of Iran to life. He is a recipient of the CLA Distinguished Teaching Award and is currently involved in research on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi.

Author : Reza Pourjavady
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004191730

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Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran by Reza Pourjavady Pdf

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 : Reza Pourjavady
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004214774

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Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran by Reza Pourjavady Pdf

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 : Ashk Dahlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135943554

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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity by Ashk Dahlen Pdf

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 : Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi,Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136781056

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The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia by Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi,Seyyed Hossein Nasr Pdf

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 : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139493253

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Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment by Ali Mirsepassi Pdf

Ali Mirsepassi's book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived from insular, traditional and monolithic religious 'foundations'. It argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends. The work demonstrates this by establishing links between important contemporary Iranian intellectuals and the central influence of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. We are also introduced to new democratic narratives of modernity linked to diverse intellectual trends in the West and in non-Western societies, notably in India, where the ideas of John Dewey have influenced important democratic social movements. As the first book to make such connections, it promises to be an important contribution to the field and will do much to overturn some pervasive assumptions about the dichotomy between East and West.

Author : Reza Pourjavady
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004387843

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Philosophy in Qajar Iran by Reza Pourjavady Pdf

Philosophy in Qajar Iran offers an account of the life, works and philosophical thoughts of major philosophers of Iran between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

Author : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107187290

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Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought by Ali Mirsepassi Pdf

A study of the life and thought of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and the development of political philosophy in post-revolutionary Iran.

Author : S. H. Nasr,Mehdi Aminrazavi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786739926

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An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 5 by S. H. Nasr,Mehdi Aminrazavi Pdf

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 : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476393

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Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi Pdf

Mirsepassi uses interviews with thirteen individuals to relate the colourful life and times of Ahmad Fardid and his intellectual legacy.

Author : Meysam Badamchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319594927

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Post-Islamist Political Theory by Meysam Badamchi Pdf

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool. What distinguishes this book from most scholarship in Iranian studies is that it primarily deals with the projects of Iranian intellectuals from a normative perspective as the concept is understood by analytical philosophers. The volume includes analyses of the strengths and weakness of the arguments underlying each thinker’s ideas, rather than looking for their historical and sociological origins, genealogy, etc. Each chapter develops a particular conjectural argument for the possibility of an overlapping consensus between Islam and political liberalism, though the arguments presented draw upon different Islamic, particularly Shia, resources. Thus, while Shabestari and Soroush primarily reason from a modernist theological or kalami perspective, M.H.Tabatabai and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi’s arguments are mainly based on traditional Islamic philosophy and Quranic exegesis. While Kadivar, An-Naim and Fanaei are post-Islamist in the exact sense of the term, Malekian goes beyond typical post-Islamism by proposing a theory for spirituality that constrains religion within the boundaries of enlightenment thought. Throughout the book, specific attention is given to Ferrara and March’s readings of political liberalism. Although the book’s chapters constitute a whole, they can also be read independently if the reader is only curious about particular intellectuals whose political theories are discussed.

Author : Ahmad Hashemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429763038

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Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran by Ahmad Hashemi Pdf

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural, linguistic, and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in closed societies. The research shows how most locutions about freedom, uttered during early modern Iran, were formed within the horizon of the question of Iran’s decline and were somehow related to remedying such situations. It challenges previous studies which employed Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative freedom as two fundamentally different concepts of freedom. It replaces Berlin’s dichotomy of positive and negative liberties with MacCallum’s triadic concept of freedom and argues that thinkers in early modern Iran could noticeably present rival interpretations of three variables of the concept of freedom, namely the agent, the constraint, and the purpose of freedom. Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is a unique contribution to the histories of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution in Iran and comparative political thinking between Iran and Europe. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in Constitutionalism, History, Political Theory and Sociology within Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Dustin J. Byrd,Seyed Javad Miri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004353732

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Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory by Dustin J. Byrd,Seyed Javad Miri Pdf

Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual is a collection of essays engaged in a future-oriented remembrance of the life and praxis of one of Iran’s most influential revolutionary intellectuals: Ali Shariati.

Author : Mohammad Fana'i Eshkevari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1907905030

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An Introduction to Contemporary Islamic Philosophy by Mohammad Fana'i Eshkevari Pdf