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Philosophy & The Intellectual Life in Shīʿah Islam contains the proceedings from The Shīʿah Institute’s first Symposium 2015, comprising a series of studies into the philosophical trends and thinkers associated with the Shīʿī tradition. The volume offers insight into the rich intellectual history in Shīʿah Islam of examining enduring and integral theological, mystical, metaphysical, and epistemological questions. The chapters are broad in scope, commencing from the classical period of philosophical theology and proceeding to examine philosophical aspects of the thought of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd, Mīr Dāmād, and Mullā Ṣadrā, amongst others. The volume aims to make an initial contribution, both by opening up fresh lines of inquiry into the ‘Intellectual Life in Shīʿah Islam’ and by encouraging further research into Shīʿī intellectual history.

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Author:   Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad ,  Sajjad H. Rizvi
Publisher:   The Shi'ah Institute Press
Imprint:   The Shi'ah Institute Press
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9780993588433

ISBN 10:   0993588433
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   04 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi Introduction Sajjad H. Rizvi Chapter 1: The Theory of States from al-Mufīd to al-Murtaḍā Hussein Abdulsater Chapter 2: ‘Imamate by any other name would smell as sweet’: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Doctrine of the Perfect Man (al-insān al-kāmil) Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad Chapter 3: Seals and Sealing of Walāyah in Ṣūfī and Shīʿī Texts: The Cases of al-Ḥakīm al- Tirmidhī and Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyah Elizabeth R. Alexandrin Chapter 4: The Wisdom of God and the Tragedy of History: The Concept of Appearance (badāʾ) in Mīr Dāmād’s Lantern of Brightness Matheiu Terrier Chapter 5: Applying Gradational Ontology to Logic: Mullā Ṣadrā on Propositions Sümeyye Parildar Chapter 6: The Intellect in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Commentary on the Uṣūl al-kāfī Jari Kaukua Chapter 7: Rajab ʿAlī Tabrīzī’s ‘Refutation’ of Ṣadrian Metaphysics Muhammad U. Faruque & Mohammed Rustom Chapter 8: The Imām’s Ethical Body: Embodied Virtue and the Human Constitution in Shīʿī Philosophy Cyrus Ali Zargar

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Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (Ph.D Princeton University) is Reader in Shīʿah Studies at the Shīʿah Institute. He has published a critical edition of Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (Cairo, 2015) and edited and introduced John Cooper’s translation of Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī’s Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics (Leiden, 2017). Sajjad H. Rizvi (Ph.D Cantab.) is Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has contributed numerous articles to various journals, and is the author of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (Oxford, 2007), and Mullā Ṣadrā and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being (Abingdon, 2009).

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