Heidegger in the Islamicate World

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Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial element shaping the intellectual and practical behaviour of many thinkers in the Islamicate world and their audiences. One Western philosopher currently receiving a particularly lively reception throughout the Islamicate world is Martin Heidegger. This book explores various aspects of the reception of Heidegger’s thought in the Arabic, Iranian, Turkish, and South Asian intellectual context. Expert Heidegger scholars from across the Islamicate world introduce and discuss approaches to Heidegger’s philosophy that operationalize, recontextualize, or review it critically in the light of Islamic and Islamicate traditions. In doing so, this book imparts knowledge of the history and present situation of Heidegger's reception in the Islamicate world and suggests new pathways for the future of Heidegger Studies – pathways that associate Heidegger’s thought with the challenges presently faced by the Islamicate world. Cover Heidegger in the Islamicate World Series Page Heidegger in the Islamicate World Copyright page Contents Preface Introduction Defining the “Islamicate” Heidegger and the Islamicate in Western Scholarship A Brief History of the Islamicate Reception of Heidegger Structure and Content of This Book Notes Part I: Lines of Reception in the Islamicate World Chapter 1 The Receptions of Heidegger in Turkey The Existentialist Reception of Heidegger Heidegger in Turkish Academia in the 1990s The Reception of Heidegger by Islamist Intellectuals Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 2 Heidegger’s Role in the Formation of Art Theory in Contemporary Iran Some Historical Preliminaries Philosophical Encounters: Thinking within the Framework of Identity Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 3 Levantine Pathways in the Reception of Heidegger Hermeneutic, Epistemological, and Ontological Approaches to Avicennism The Essence of Technology, Dwelling, and Islamism Charles H. Malik: A Levantine Reception of Sein und Zeit Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 4 The Eccentric Reception of Heidegger in Hanafi’s “French Trilogy” Part One: Les méthodes d’exégèse (1965) Part Two: L’exégèse de la phénoménologie (1966) Part Three: La phénoménologie de l’exégèse (1966) Concluding Remarks Notes Part II: Heidegger and Islamicate Authenticity Chapter 5 Anxiety, Nothingness, and Time Badawi’s Logic of Intuition Badawi’s Logic of Time Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 6 Taha Abderrahmane Heidegger in the Moroccan Philosophical Scene Countering Heidegger’s Eurocentrism: Philosophy Does Not Speak German Heidegger’s Conceptual Machinery as a Heuristic Model Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 7 On Nihilism and the Nihilistic Essence of European Metaphysics The Different States of Nihilism According to Heidegger Daryush Shayegan: Nihilism and the Historical Destiny of Asian Civilizations Concluding Remarks Notes Part III: Heidegger and Islamicate Modes of Expression Chapter 8 The Question Concerning Poetry in Iqbal and Heidegger Iqbal the Poet Poetry and Poet-Thinkers in the Islamicate World Heidegger and the Question of Poetry Iqbal and Heidegger: Affinities and Lines of Difference Notes Chapter 9 Heidegger, Hölderlin—Fardid, Hafez The Saving Power of Poetry Hafez’s Poetry as a Rescue from a “Poor Time” Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 10 Hospitality and Dialogue Translating Heidegger: Being an Alternative New Version of Oneself Hospitality: Translating Otherness Philosophically Concluding Remarks Notes Part IV: Heidegger and the Revival of Islamicate Philosophy Chapter 11 Against Heidegger-Orthodoxy in the Arab World Critique of Current Heidegger Reception in the Arab World Perspectives for a Productive Engagement with Heidegger Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter 12 Heidegger’s Aristotle The Reductive Understanding of Heidegger in Iran Renewal of Iranian-Islamic Philosophy via Heidegger’s Interpretation of Aristotle Concluding Remarks Notes Part V: Challenging the Islamicate Chapter 13 Heidegger and the Islamicate Transversals Reversals Concluding Remarks Notes Appendix Bibliography Index About the Contributors