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In the late 90s as a grad student I became interested in the utility of #analytic_philosophy as a language and method of presentation and looked to how other traditions used it - a thread on #Indian_philosophy 1/
I began reading the work of Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991), who had studied traditional logic and mastered it as a Tarkatirtha at Sanskrit College in Calcutta by the early 1960s 2/
Another major figure in modern Indian philosophy JN Mohanty has this highly useful reminiscence of that time and Matilal’s approach sjsu.edu/people/anand.v… 2a/
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Some further thoughts on the links of #IslamicPhilosophy in #Iran and #NorthIndia relating to Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād Astarābādī (d. 1631), who is far less known than his student Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1636) 1/ ImageImageImage
Despite being the Shaykh al-islām of Iṣfahān late in life and a leading jurist of his time - he was the grandson of the first major jurist of the Safavid empire Shaykh Nūr al-dīn ʿAlī al-Karakī (d. 1534) - his work remains little known 2/
One of the peculiarities of his fame and work is the appearance in North India of his work al-Ufuq al-mubīn leading some (including myself I must admit) to talk of a 'school of Mīr Dāmād' in India academia.edu/1270535/Mir_Da… 3/
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Slowly it seems that interest in Islamic thought - the rational disciplines including philosophy and logic - in India is growing, and the recent book by Shankar Nair is a good indication towards it #IslamicPhilosophy #India 1/
His chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy is also a very positive approach; now a number of older works discussed the contributions of Indian scholars to the intellectual traditions in Islam oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/o… 2/ Image
Apart from works that focused on outlining the texts in the curricula and method known as the dars-e niẓāmī of which there are plenty especially in Urdu and some mentions in works by Francis Robinson and Jamal Malik brill.com/view/title/150 3/ Image
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The #Mughal period in India is known for a court sponsored programme of translation from #Sanskrit and attempts to translate Indic metaphysics into the idiom of #Sufism and #Persianate #IslamicPhilosophy #PersoIndica 1/
We already have a number of important studies but first we should mention the highly important Perso-Indica project based in Paris and Bonn perso-indica.net
This is a great resource 2/
Then, of course, there is @AudreyTruschke work that is in many ways seminal in the turn to the Sanskrit sources to make sense of the intellectual and cultural history 3/
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#manuscripts MS King Abdul Aziz Library Riyadh 906 #IslamicPhilosophy Mawdih al-diraya Li-sharh bab al-hidaya of Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa’i (d. 909/1503) 1/ ImageImageImage
IAJ was a prolific author in theology #fiqh philosophy on the cusp of the #Safavid period and there is a Institute devoted to publishing his work based in al-Ahsa headed by Sayyid ‘Ali al-Musa 2/ ImageImage
His best known works are his massive al-Mujli a combination of insights from #Shii #kalam #Avicennism #IshraqiPhilosophy and the #Sufism of #IbnArabi 3/ ImageImage
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There is little doubt that sometimes the best way to make sense of the transmission of texts, debates and commentaries is to dive deeply into codices of collected texts (majmūʿa-s) #manuscripts #Islamic #intellectual_history 1/
One good example is the majmūʿa MS Majlis-e Shūrā (Tehran) 5284 which includes ten texts mostly copied by Sulṭān Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Shāh Iṣfahānī in 962/1555 in Bharuch in West India 2/
The collection begins with some works of Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī (d. 1502) - usually called Muḥammad b. Asʿad al-Ṣiddīqī in the incipits - reflecting on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) works on the #intellect and #nafs_al_amr and on the logical notion of #conception_taṣawwur 3/
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A new book published on #IslamicPhilosophy and what the current engagement with philosophies in #Iran tells us about contemporary #intellectual_history and #political_theology 1/ ImageImage
The author Esmail Noshad is a philosopher at Isfahan university and it seems to be based on his #PHD - he has written extensively on the contexts and #political_theology of different phases of #translation_movements in philosophy from the #GreekIntoArabic onwards 2/ Image
Here is a write up about this new book mehrnews.com/news/4949258/تاریخ-ما-بیشتر-ادبی-است-تا-نظری-مفصل-بندی-تئوریک-تاریخ-ایران 3/
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#IslamicPhilosophy #manuscripts #autograph of the Shaykhī leader Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī (d. 1843) in a codex of his collected works MS 2087 Marʿashī Library in Qum 1/ Image
Given the importance of the works of the early Shaykhī leaders like Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī (d. 1826) and Sayyid Kāẓim it is a shame that there are still so few critical editions of their works 2/
What we have on the whole are the lithographs produced in Kerman in the late 19th C and their reprints and re-typeset copies or popular editions produced by the Tabriz/Kuwait branch of the #Shaykhīya 3/
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#IslamicPhilosophy #manuscripts #autograph of Mullā Naʿīmā Ṭāliqānī (d. 1748) on the margins of a codex of Mullā Ṣadrā's Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikma first copied in 1666 MS 151 Kitābkhāna-yi Namāzī-yi Khūy 1/ Image
Mullā Ṣadrā's commentary on al-Abharī (d. 1265) Avicennian compendium Hidāyat al-ḥikma was very popular already soon after his death and disseminated into #Ottoman and #Mughal contexts soon after 2/
Ṭāliqānī famously survived the sack of Isfahan by the Afghans in 1722 and wrote his summary of the metaphysics of Mullā Ṣadrā in exile in Qum - entitled Aṣl al-uṣūl 3/
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Just got this wonderful book of interview reminiscences by Daryush Shayegan (1935-2018) with #RaminJahanbegloo 1/ ImageImageImage
#Shayegan was sent to school in #England after WW2 and then read philosophy, Sanskrit and literature at #Geneva 2/
#Shayegan was close to #Corbin and his life’s account is a wonderful journey in the #intellectual_history of #Iran and its encounter with #Europe 3/ ImageImageImageImage
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The Egyptian philosopher ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Badawi (1917-2002) is perhaps one of the most underrated thinkers of #ContemporaryArabThought - a major #Heideggerian_existentialist #Sufism and #IslamicPhilosophy specialist who studied at Fuad I (later #Cairo) University 1/
Many of us who study #IslamicThought know him for his editions of #ArabicAristotle #ArabicPlato #ArabicPlotinus as well as editions of the work of #Avicenna #IbnSabin #SiwanalHikma and others - without his efforts we would not have editions of the #PlotinianaArabica 2/
In the 1930s he studied in Cairo and obtained his PhD in 1944 supervised by #AlexandreKoyré (1892-1964) on the notion of 'existential time' that engages with #Heidegger - this like his other early works was published by #DaralNahdaalMisriya 3/
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Sayyid Jalalodin Ashtiyani (1925-2005) is probably one of the best exponents of the philosophy of #MullaSadra in recent history and the #Mashhad daily #Shahrara has a current special weekly supplement on him shahraranews.ir/fa/publication… 1/
Ashtiyani collaborated with Henry Corbin on an influential four volumes of philosophical texts from 1600-1800 in #Iran ashtiyani.irهمکاری-استاد-اشتیانی-وکربن
He not only edited texts but published an important volume in #existence in #MullaSadra as well as the #Avicennian and #mystical traditions and an intellectual biography of #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 3/ ashtiyani.irشرح-حال-و-آراي-فلسفي-ملاصدرا/
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Classics of #IslamicPhilosophy #IslamicMysticism translation of the so-called #TafsirIbnArabi which is in fact #Tawilat of #AbdalRazzaqKashani (d. c. 1336) translated by Sayyid Javad Hashimi ‘Ulya in 2016 #Intisharat_e_mawla 1/ Image
Anyone who reads this carefully especially on the question of the #Mahdi cannot help but wonder about the notion that #Kashani was not #Shii as discussed by #PierreLory global.oup.com/academic/produ… 2/
The same translator rendered the classic #JamialAsrar of Sayyid Haydar Amuli (d. after 1385) into Persian in 1998 which provides the metaphysical argument for the complete compatibility of #ShiiIslam with #IbnArabiSchool 3/ Image
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#Intisharat_e_mawla on #Enghelab in #Tehran which is currently shut has been at the forefront of publishing on #IslamicPhilosophy and #Mysticism especially through translations of major works 1/ ImageImage
One of their most prolific editors and translators was the #Zahabi author #MuhammadKhajavi (1934-2012) for his work on #MullaSadra and the #IbnArabiSchool google.co.uk/amp/s/www.hams… 2/
He translated the whole of the #Asfar as well as the #Tafsir and other works of #MullaSadra 3/ ImageImageImageImage
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Grateful to a friend for picking up these volumes from #Iran of #Mahbubalqulub of Qutb al-Din Ashkivari (d. c. 1692) a student of #MirDamad on history of philosophy #IslamicPhilosophy 1/ ImageImageImageImage
The work comprises three volumes the first two of which appeared as critical editions with #MiraseMaktub in #Tehran around 20 years ago - there is still no edition of volume 3 #IslamicPhilosophy #HistoryofPhilosophy 2/ Image
Volume 1 is on pre-Islamic thinkers and has an extensive discussion on #Zoroaster as well as the Quranic sage #Luqman and a prophetic conception of the beginnings of philosophy with #Seth and then #Hermes_Idris following #Shahrazuri (d. 1288) 3/
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Another work that I got at @maarefhekmeya from #ShaykhShafiqJaradi is the taqrirat of his classes on #BidayatalHikma of #Tabatabai - he is one of the rare #ShiiUlema in #Lebanon with a serious critical interest in #MullaSadra and the possibilities of #IslamicPhilosophy today ImageImage
But it’s a shame that #ShiiUlema on the whole have yet to embrace academic footnote culture - and the book needs an #index - still it’s better than most expositions of #BidayatalHikma 2/
One would also like to see a more critical engagement - many of us share a criticism of the efficacy of #Tabatabai in this work 3/
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Not entirely sure when I got hold of this book published by @maarefhekmeya but pretty decent work by #AliFazili on the semantics of being and how one applies existence to God, to humans and to the secondary intelligible of ‘existence’ in the mind #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 1/ ImageImageImage
Part of the question goes back to the problem of the subject of philosophy in Aristotle and what is meant by #being_qua_being and how we understood and delimit what we intend by the term #MullaSadra #IslamicPhilosophy 2/
It is also a useful way to making sense of the different ways in which we understand #existence in #IslamicPhilosophy #ShiiTheology and #mysticism 3/
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Picked this up last year in Casablanca - Gadamerian reading of the divine form or image in #IbnArabi by محمد امعارش published @MominounWB and the notion of the barzakh/in-between 1/ Image
The divine image alongside divine discourse is the grounds for a hermeneutical understanding of the nexus of transcendence and immanence as the disclosures of the divine in the cosmos 2/
The ultimate expression of the divine image is of course the human - not least the ultimate barzakh of the #InsanKamil or #PerfectHuman - who is in-between divinity and creaturely nature 3/
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