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Mulla Sadra and metaphysics : modulation of being
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ISBN: 9780415849005 0415849004 Year: 2013 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna. In this exploration of his philosophy, Sajjad H. Rizvi examines the central doctrine of the modulation of being, and contextualises his work within the intellectual history of philosophical traditions in the Islamic East. Reading and critiquing the works of Mulla Sadra from an analytical perspective, this book pays particular attention to his text the Asfar, a work which, due to its complexity, is often overlooked. Looking at the concept of philosophy as a way of life and a therapeutic practice, this book explores the paradigm of the modulation of being in the philosophical method and metaphysics of Mulla Sadra and considers its different manifestations. Rizvi relates his philosophy to larger trends and provides a review of the field, charting and critiquing the discussion on the topic to date and exploring recent thought in this direction, to show how Sadrian thought was addressed well into the 19th and 20th centuries.This major contribution to the study of Mulla Sadra and the intellectual life of the Safavid period fills an important gap in the field of Sadra studies and Islamic philosophy, and is indispensable to students of philosophy, religion and Islamic studies, and Islamic philosophy in particular.

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An anthology of Qurʼanic commentaries
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ISBN: 9780199600595 9780197200001 0197200001 0199600597 Year: 2008 Volume: 1 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The tradition of scriptural commentary is largely unknown to those outside the field of Qur'anic studies and yet it constitutes one of the earliest and most significant traditions of Islam. From the earliest period, these commentaries reveal a wide spectrum of issues that engaged Muslim scholars who were seeking not only to understand the Qur'an but also to develop tools of understanding for relating revelation to the developing sciences of law, theology, philosophy, and governance. This groundbreaking work examines both early and contemporary commentaries, covering a wide spectrum of theological and hermeneutic approaches. The first volume analyses the approaches of Sunni, Shi'i, Ibadi, Mu'tazili, and Sufi commentators to six key verses of the Qur'an, revealing the subtle differences that influence debate in Islam today.


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Knowledge and power in Muslim societies : approaches in intellectual history
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ISBN: 9783959941655 9783959941648 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin : Gerlach Press,

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"The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the 'subaltern' within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consistently unpredictable? How can we understand the course of our political history and the seeming dominance of democracy and its discontents, not least the legacies of coloniality and empire? While nationalist historiographies prevail in many contexts as well as Marxist and other approaches, the trend seems to be towards connected histories, the transnational and the global. Much of this constitutes intellectual history, which as one leading expert puts it, "seeks to restore a lost world, to recover perspectives and ideas from the ruins, to pull back the veil, and explain why the ideas resonated in the past and convinced their advocates." (Richard Whatmore) Ideas are expressive of cultures and norms, practices and dispositions, of actions and events that lie at the very core of human experience such as sovereignty and power, mind and matter, profanity and spirituality. There are noticeable differences of approach in the various chapters presented but what brings them together is a careful study of texts, not in a reductively philological manner derided quite often these days but in the way in which we recognise that texts are forms of speech acts and lie alongside other forms of self-expression that can elucidate and illuminate as well as occlude"


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Philosophy and the intellectual life in Shī'ah Islam
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ISBN: 9780993588433 0993588433 Year: 2017 Publisher: London: Shī'ah Institute Press,

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Philosophy & The Intellectual Life in Sh ah Islam contains the proceedings from The Sh ah Institute s first Symposium 2015, comprising a series of studies into the philosophical trends and thinkers associated with the Sh tradition. The volume offers insight into the rich intellectual history in Sh ah 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-Muf d, M r D m d, and Mull adr , amongst others. The volume aims to make an initial contribution, both by opening up fresh lines of inquiry into the Intellectual Life in Sh ah Islam and by encouraging further research into Sh intellectual history.


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Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World during the Early-Modern and Modern Periods

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Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World during the Early-Modern and Modern Periods

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