Isbn: 9789004343023 - universal science: an introduction to islamic metaphysics (modern shīʿah library, band 2) (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMahd&#299 H&#257&#702ir&#299 Yazd&#299 (1923-1999) (Ph.D. University of Toronto) was an eminent Sh&#299&#703ah intellectual. He taught at Harvard and Oxford, and was Professor of Islamic Philosophy at the.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Universal Science (?Ilm-i kulli) by Mahdi ?a?iri Yazdi, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the 'living tradition' of Shi?i philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shi?ah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.…