An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Volume 3: Philosophical Theology in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Contents......Page 10
List of Reprinted Works......Page 14
Note on Transliteration......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 18
General Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 20
Introductory Analysis M. Aminrazavi......Page 33
PART I. Mu'tazilism......Page 38
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 40
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 43
Selections (from Madhāhib al-Islāmiyyīn)......Page 45
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 50
Selections (from Madhāhib al-Islāmiyyīn)......Page 52
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 57
The Book that Makes Others Superfluous (from al-Mughnī fi'l-abwāb al-tawhīd wa'l-'adl)......Page 59
PART II. LATER SUNNI THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT......Page 72
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 74
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 77
The Book of Guidance (from Kitāb al-irshād)......Page 80
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 103
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (from Tahāfut al-falāsifah)......Page 107
The Just Mean in Belief (from al-Iqtisād fi'l-i'tiqād)......Page 132
The Book of Knowledge (from Ihyā' 'ulūm al-dīn)......Page 148
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 156
The Summa Philosophiae (from Nihāyat al-iqdām fī 'ilm al kalām......Page 158
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 204
Commentary on the Book of Directives and Remarks (from Sharh al-ishārāt)......Page 208
Oriental Discourses (from al-Mabāhith al-mashriqiyyah)......Page 222
The Soul, Spirit and Elaboration of their Faculties (from al-Nafs wa'l-rūh wa sharh quwāhumā)......Page 248
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 268
The Book of Stations in the Science of Theology (from al-Mawāqif fī 'ilm al-kalām)......Page 270
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 304
Commentary on the Stations in Theology (Sharh al-mawāqif)......Page 306
Treatise on Existence (from Risālat al-wujūd)......Page 323
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 331
Commentary on the Purposes of the Science of Theology (from Sharh al-maqāsid fī 'ilm al-kalām)......Page 333
A Commentary on the Principles of Islam (from Fī usūl al-Islām)......Page 356
PART III. SH'I PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY......Page 384
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 386
Introduction S.H Nasr......Page 390
The Book of Catharsis (from Tajrīd al-i'tiqād)......Page 392
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 415
Commentary on the Book of Catharsis (from Sharh al-tajrīd)......Page 417
Introduction M. Aminrazavi......Page 450
The Delight of the Eyes (from Qurrat al-'uyūn)......Page 452
Select Bibliography......Page 476
Index......Page 483