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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.
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Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies
Iran Studies Editorial Board Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego) Yann Richard (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Christoph Werner (University of Marburg)
Volume 16
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Hossein Ziai (1944–2011)
Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai Edited by
Ali Gheissari John Walbridge Ahmed Alwishah
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Cover illustration: Hossein Ziai, Song of Gabriel’s Wings, 1994. Watercolor, 4 × 6 in. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov
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Contents Preface ix Note on Contributors xvi
Part 1 Introduction 1 Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio-Bibliographical Introduction 3 Ali Gheissari 2 Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies 13 John Walbridge
Part 2 Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination 3 Illuminationist Manuscripts: The Rediscovery of Suhrawardī and its Reception 21 John Walbridge 4 Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghiṭāʾ li-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ 42 Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl 5 Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages 66 John Walbridge 6 The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy 86 Malihe Karbassian 7 The Concept of Sakīna in Suhrawardī 96 Nasrollah Pourjavady
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Part 3 The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators 8 Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents 115 Ahmed Alwishah 9 Ithbāt al-Mabdaʾ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic 135 Y. Tzvi Langermann 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 160 L.W. Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange 11 Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn N