Sayeh Meisami

Mulla Sadra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A timely biography on the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years

Produktdetails

• Makers of the Muslim World
• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781851684298
• ISBN-10: 1851684298
• Artikelnr.: 38423817

Autorenporträt

Sayeh Meisami is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she leads the Islamic Philosophy Reading Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
1 THE MAN AND HIS WORK
Life and Works
Mulla Sadra and the School of Isfahan
Transcendental Philosophy
 
2 THE REALITY AND GRADATION OF BEING
Being and Quiddity
The Ground of Reality
Is Quiddity an Illusion?
Diversity in Unity
Unity in Diversity
 
3 THE UNITY OF THE KNOWER AND THE KNOWN
Knowledge and Being
The Hierarchy of Knowing
Knowledge by Presence
Knowledge and Realization
 
4 THE BEGINNING AND THE END
Substantial Motion
The Ground of Motion
Temporal Origination and Eternity
The Soul
The Resurrection
 
5 GOD AND HIS ATTRIBUTES
Theology in Transcendental Philosophy
The Existence of God
The Oneness of God
The Attributes
Divine Knowledge
Divine Will
Free Will
Prophets, Imams and Awliya
 
6 THE PHILOSOPHER¿S LEGACY
Early Influence: Students and Critics
Mulla Sadra in the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
After the Islamic Revolution
Outside Iran
 
Select Bibliography
Index