| The Book of Metaphysical Penetrations Contributor(s): Sadra, Mulla (Author), Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (Translator), Kalin, Ibrahim (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0842528393 ISBN-13: 9780842528399 Publisher: Brigham Young University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Religious |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.42" W x 9.26" (1.23 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mulla Sadra (ca. 1572-1640) is one of the most prominent figures of post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy and among the most important philosophers of Safavid Persia. He was a prolific writer whose work advanced the fields of intellectual and religious science in Islamic philosophy, but arguably his most important contribution to Islamic philosophy is in the study of existence (wujud) and its application to such areas as cosmology, epistemology, psychology, and eschatology. Sadra represents a paradigm shift from the Aristotelian metaphysics of fixed substances, which had dominated Islamic philosophy, to an analysis of existence as the ultimate ground and dynamic source of things. He posits that all beings derive their reality and truth from their wujud and that a proper philosophical analysis must therefore start and eventually end with it. The present work's focus on Sadra's gradational ontology provides a strong foundation for the reader to understand Sadra's other works and later texts by other philosophers working in the same field. This edition contains parallel English-Arabic texts and a new translation by preeminent scholar of Islamic philosophy Seyyed Hossein Nasr. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kalin, Ibrahim: - Ibrahim Kalin currently serves as chief advisor to the prime minister of Turkey and is a fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. Nasr, Seyyed Hossein: - Seyyed Hossein Nasr is the University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University. |