Illuminationist texts and textual studies : : essays in memory of Hossein Ziai / / compiled by Ahmed Alwishah, Ali Gheissari, John Walbridge.

• Superior document: Iran studies ; 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Ziai, Hossein.; Alwishah, Ahmed.; Gheissari, Ali, 1954-; Walbridge, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Iran Studies 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction /; Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies /; Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception /; Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ /; Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages /; The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy /; The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī /; Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents /; Ithbāt al-Mabdaʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic /; Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazūrī’s Rasāʾil al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya /; Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It /; Takmīl al-Manṭiq: A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Manual on Logic /; Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy /; Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space /; Translation of Mullā Ṣadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfir) /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004358390
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: compiled by Ahmed Alwishah, Ali Gheissari, John Walbridge.

The late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist ( Ishrāqī ) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it. The focus of various chapters is on translations, editions, and close expositions of rationalist works in areas such as epistemology, logic and metaphysics rather than mysticism more generally, and also on specific texts rather than themes or studies of individual philosophers. The purpose of the volume is to introduce new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy. Various texts in this volume have not been previously translated nor have they been the subject of significant Western scholarship.