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).

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction / Ali Gheissari -- Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies / John Walbridge -- Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception / John Walbridge -- Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ / Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl -- Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages / John Walbridge -- The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy / Malihe Karbassian -- The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī / Nasrollah Pourjavady -- Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents / Ahmed Alwishah -- Ithbāt al-Mabdaʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazūrī’s Rasāʾil al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya / L.W. Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange -- Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It / Reza Pourjavady -- Takmīl al-Manṭiq: A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Manual on Logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy / Charles E. Butterworth -- Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space / Jon McGinnis -- Translation of Mullā Ṣadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfir) / Eiyad S. al-Kutubi -- Index.