The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

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Routledge, Dec 16, 2013 - Social Science - 392 pages
This volume gathers together the numerous essays by the Iranian metaphysician and ontologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Islamic philosophers and the intricate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. Brought together into a single volume for the first time, these essays span four decades of Nasr's prolific and learned scholarship on the development of Islamic philosophy, as well as the general history of Islam, and expound his belief that philosophy is not merely a rational but a sacred activity.
 

Contents

EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
57
SUHRAWARDI AND THE SCHOOL OF ISHRĀQ
123
PHILOSOPHERSPOETSSCIENTISTS
173
LATER ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
237
ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN MODERN IRAN
321
Index
341
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Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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