The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
PART I: ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND PERSIAN CULTURE......Page 18
1. Mysticism and Traditional Philosophy in Persia, Pre-Islamic and Islamic......Page 20
2. Cosmography in Pre-Islamic and Islamic Persia. The Question of the Continuity of Iranian Culture......Page 27
3. The Tradition of Islamic Philosophy in Persia and its Significance for the Modern World......Page 45
4. The Significance of Persian Philosophical Works in the Tradition of Islamic Philosophy......Page 64
PART II: EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY......Page 74
5. Why was al-Fārābī called the Second Teacher?......Page 76
6. Ibn Sīnā: A General Survey......Page 83
7. Ibn Sīnā 's Prophetic Philosophy......Page 93
8. Bīrūnī as Philosophe......Page 109
9. Bīrūnī versus Ibn Sīnā on the Nature of the Universe......Page 117
10. Nāsir-i Khusraw: The Philosopher-Poet......Page 120
11. Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī......Page 123
PART III: SUHRAWARDI AND THE SCHOOL OF ISHRĀQ......Page 140
12. Suhrawardī: A General Survey......Page 142
13. The Persian Works of Shaykh al-Ishrāq Suhrawardī......Page 171
14. The Spread of the Illuminationist School of Suhrawardī......Page 177
PART IV: PHILOSOPHERS-POETS-SCIENTISTS......Page 190
15. Omar Khayyām: Philosopher-Poet-Scientist......Page 192
16. The World View and Philosophical Perspective of Hakim Nizāmī Ganjawī......Page 195
17. Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī and the Philosophical World of Khwājah Nasīr al- Dīn Tūsī......Page 206
18. Muhammad ibn Muhammad Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī......Page 224
19. Qutb al-Dīn Shīrāzī......Page 233
20. The Status of Rashīd al-Dīn Fadallāh in the History of  Islamic Philosophy and Science......Page 245
PART V: LATER ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY......Page 254
21. The School of Isfahan......Page 256
22. Sadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī......Page 288
23. Mullā Hādī Sabziwārī......Page 321
PART VI: ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN MODERN IRAN......Page 338
24. Islamic Philosophical Activity in Contemporary Persia: A Survey of Activity in the 50's and 60's......Page 340
Index......Page 358