An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia. Vol. 5. From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century

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Persian civilisation has had a continuous tradition of philosophical thought lasting more than two and a half millennia. The fifth and final volume of 'An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia' examines the seven centuries between the Mongol invasion and the end of the Qajar period. The volume is divided into three parts: 'The School of Shiraz', whose importance for Ottoman Turkey and Muslim India is only now being recognized; 'The School of Isfahan', which marks the integration of some eight centuries of Islamic thought; and finally 'The School of Tehran', where traditional philosophy encountered modern thought in Persia. This volume is of the utmost significance for understanding the Islamic intellectual tradition not only in Persia but also in Ottoman Turkey and Muslim India. List of Reprinted Works Note on Transliteration List of Contributors General Introduction Prolegomenon Part I: The School of Shiraz Introduction 1. Jalāl al-Dīn Dawānī Introduction The Treatise of Baghdad (from Risālat al-zawrāʾ) 2. Ṣadr al-Dīn Dashtakī Introduction Treatise on the Problem of the Liar’s Paradox (from Risālah fī shubhat jadhr al-aṣamm) 3. Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī Introduction Manṣūrian Ethics (from Akhlāq-i Manṣūrī) Stations of the Gnostics (from Maqāmāt al-ʿārifīn) 4. Shams al-Dīn Khafrī Introduction Treatise on Prime Matter (from Risālah fi’l-hayūlā) Treatise on the Bewilderment of the Learned: The Liar’s Paradox (from Risālat ʿibrat al-fuḊalāʾ: Jadhr al-aṣamm) Part II: The School of Isfahan Introduction 1. Mīr Dāmād Introduction Sparks of Fire (from al-Qabasāt) 2. Mīr Findiriskī Introduction Treatise on the Arts (from Risālah-yi ṣināʿiyyah) 3. Mullā Ṣadrā Introduction The Four Intellectual Journeys (from al-Asfār al-ʿaqliyyah al-arbaʿah) Metaphysical Penetrations (from Kitāb al-Mashāʿir) The Unification of the Intellector and the Intellected (from Ittiḥād al-ʿāqil wa’l-maʿqūl) The Two Lāhījīs Introduction The Pearl of Desire (from Gawhar-i murād) Lights of Inspiration (from Shawāriq al-ilhām) Persian Treatises (from Rasāʾil-i fārsī) 5. Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlawī Introduction Commentary on ‘The Book of Healing’ (from Sharḥ al-shifāʾ) 6. Mullā Rajab ʿAlī Tabrīzī Introduction On the Necessary Being (from Ithbāt-i wājib) The Fundamental Principle (from al-Aṣl al-aṣīl) 7. Mullā Muḥsin FayḊ Kāshānī Introduction Hidden Words (from Kalimāt maknūnah) Divine Sciences (from al-Maʿārif al-ilāhiyyah) 8. QāḊī Saʿīd Qummī Introduction Mysteries of Worship (from Asrār al-ʿibādāt) Commentary on the Enneads (from Taʿlīqāt bar uthūlūjiyā) 9. Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ardistānī Introduction Ṣādiqian Wisdom (from al-Ḥikmah al-Ṣādiqiyyah) Part III: The Qajar Period and the School of Tehran Introduction 1. Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī Introduction The Measure of Good in the Elucidation of the Subject of Rhetoric (from Mīzān al-ṣawāb dar sharḥ-i faṣl al-khiṭāb) 2. Mullā Ismāʿīl Khājūʾī Introduction On the Refutation of Illusory Time (from Ibṭāl al-zamān al-mawhūm) 3. Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī Introduction Glosses upon 'The Secrets of Verses' (from Sharḥ asrār al-āyāt) 4. Ḥājjī Mullā Hādī Sabzawārī Introduction Commentary on a Philosophical Poem (from Sharḥ al-manẓūmah) 5. Mullā ʿAbd Allāh Zunūzī Introduction Divine Flashes of Light (from Lamaʿāt-i ilāhiyyah) 6. Āqā ʿAlī Mudarris Ṭihrānī (Zunūzī) Introduction Marvels of Wisdom (from Badāyiʿ al-ḥikam) 7. Āqā Muḥammad RiḊā Qumshaʾī Introduction On the Oneness of Existence, or Rather, the Existent (from Risālah fī waḥdat al-wujūd bal al-mawjūd) Addendum to the Ringstone on Seth from 'The Ringstones of Wisdom' on the Topics of Friendship (from Dhayl-i faṣṣ-i shīthī-yi fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam: dar mabāḥith-i walāyat) 8. Mīrzā Abu’l-Ḥasan Ṭabāṭabāʾī (Jilwah) Introduction Philosophical Epistles (from Rasāʾil falsafiyyah) Select Bibliography Index