Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies : Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai

The late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist ( Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it. The focus of various chapters is on translations, editions, and close expositions of rationalist works in areas such as epistemology, logic and metaphysics rather than mysticism more generally, and also on specific texts rather than themes or studies of individual philosophers. The purpose of the volume is to introduce new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy. Various texts in this volume have not been previously translated nor have they been the subject of significant Western scholarship. Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 Note on Contributors......Page 16 Part 1 Introduction......Page 21 Chapter 1 Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction......Page 23 Chapter 2 Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies......Page 33 Part 2 Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination......Page 39 Chapter 3 Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception......Page 41 Chapter 4 Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ......Page 62 Chapter 5 Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages......Page 86 Chapter 6 The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy......Page 106 Chapter 7 The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī......Page 116 Part 3 The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators......Page 133 Chapter 8 Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents......Page 135 Chapter 9 Ithbāt al-Mabda ʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic......Page 155 Chapter 10 Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazūrī’s Rasāʾil al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya......Page 180 Chapter 11 Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It......Page 199 Part 4 The Wider Tradition......Page 217 Chapter 12 Takmīl al-Manṭiq: A Sixteenth-Century Arabic Manual on Logic......Page 219 Chapter 13 Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy......Page 277 Chapter 14 Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space......Page 292 Chapter 15 Translation of Mullā Ṣadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfir)......Page 326 Index......Page 347 Introduction / Hossein Ziai A bio-bibliographical introduction / Ali Gheissari Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardi studies / John Walbridge Suhrawardi and the philosophy of illumination Illuminationist manuscripts : the rediscovery of al-Suhrawardi and its reception / John Walbridge Some observations on the Kashf al-Ghitāʼ li-Ikhwān al-Safā / Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl Al-Suhrawardi's Creed of the sages / John Walbridge The meaning and etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist philosophy / Malihe Karbassian Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardi / Nasrollah Pourjavady The Illuminationists or Suhrawardi's commentators Suhrawardi and ibn Kammuna on the impossibility of having two necessary existents / Ahmed Alwisah Ithbāt al-mabdaʼ by Saʻd bin Mansur ibn Kammuna : a philosophically oriented monotheistic ethic / Y. Tzvi Langermann Constructing a world of its own : a translation of the chapter on the world of image from Shahrazuri's Rasāʼil al-shajara al-ilāhiyya / L.W.C. (Eric) van Lit and C.R. Lange Shihab al-din al-Suhrawardi's "postscript" to his tablets of ʻimādiyya al-din and Najm al-din al-Nayrizi's commentary on it / Reza Pourjavady The wider tradition Takmil al-mantiq : a sixteenth century Arabic manual on logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb Alfarabi's purposes of Aristotle's metaphysics and Avicenna's 'eastern' philosophy / Charles E. Butterworth Mind the gap : the reception of Avicenna's new argument against actually infinite space / Jon McGinnis Translation of Mullā Sadrā's the traveler's provision (Zād al-musāfer) / Eiyad S. al-Kutubi.