History of Islamic Philosophy

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ISBN: 9780710304162 | 0710304161
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Published here for the first time in English, this highly important work by Henry Corbin, the Islamic scholar, philosopher, and historian of religion, is a definitive interpretation of traditional Islamic philosophy from the beginning to the present day. In this authoritative volume, Corbin makes clear the great themes of the doctrinal and mystical vision of Islamic philosophy through a wealth of comparative parallels and in relation to the most profound currents of Western philosophy. Corbin's History of Islamic Philosophy is both an inspirational book and an essential work of reference, enabling readers to discover for themselves the richness of this body of thought.

Transcription	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
From the Beginning Down to the Death of Averroes (595/1198)
The Sources of Philosophical Meditation in Islam	p. 1
Spiritual exegesis of the Quran	p. 1
The translations	p. 14
Shiism and Prophetic Philosophy	p. 23
Preliminary observations	p. 23
Twelver Shiism	p. 31
Periods and sources	p. 31
Esotericism	p. 36
Prophetology	p. 39
Imamology	p. 45
Gnosiology	p. 51
Hierohistory and metahistory	p. 61
The hidden Imam and eschatology	p. 68
Ismailism	p. 74
Periods and sources: proto-Ismailism	p. 74
Fatimid Ismailism	p. 79
The dialectic of the tawhid	p. 79
The drama in Heaven and the birth of Time	p. 84
Cyclical time: hierohistory and hierarchies	p. 86
Imamology and eschatology	p. 90
The reformed Ismailism of Alamut	p. 93
Periods and sources	p. 93
The concept of the Imam	p. 97
Imamology and the philosophy of resurrection	p. 100
Ismailism and Sufism	p. 102
The Sunni Kalam	p. 105
The Mu'tazilites	p. 105
The origins	p. 105
The doctrine	p. 109
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari	p. 112
The life and works of al-Ash'ari	p. 112
The doctrine of al-Ash'ari	p. 114
Ash'arism	p. 117
The vicissitudes of the Ash'arite School	p. 117
Atomism	p. 120
Reason and faith	p. 122
Philosophy and the Natural Sciences	p. 125
Hermeticism	p. 125
Jabir ibn Hayyan and alchemy	p. 128
The encyclopaedia of the Ikhwan al-Safa'	p. 133
Rhazes (al-Razi), physician and philosopher	p. 136
The philosophy of language	p. 142
Al-Birunl	p. 147
Al-Khwarizmi	p. 149
Ibn al-Haytham	p. 149
Shahmardan al-Razi	p. 152
The Hellenizing Philosophers	p. 153
Foreword	p. 153
Al-Kindi and his pupils	p. 154
Al-Farabi	p. 158
Abu al-Hasan al-'Amiri	p. 165
Avicenna and Avicennism	p. 167
Ibn Maskuyah, Ibn Fatik, Ibn Hindu	p. 175
Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi	p. 177
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and the critique of philosophy	p. 179
Sufism	p. 187
Preliminary remarks	p. 187
Abu Yazid al-Bastami	p. 192
Al-Junayd	p. 194
Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi	p. 195
Al-Hallaj	p. 197
Ahmad al-Ghazali and 'pure love'	p. 199
Al-Suhrawardi and the Philosophy of Light	p. 205
The restoration of the wisdom of ancient Persia	p. 205
The Orient of the Lights (Ishraq)	p. 209
The hierarchy of the universes	p. 212
The occidental exile	p. 215
The Ishraqiyun	p. 218
In Andalusia	p. 221
Ibn Masarrah and the school of Almeria	p. 221
Ibn Hazm of Cordoba	p. 226
Ibn Bajjah (Avempace) of Saragossa	p. 230
Ibn al-Sid of Badajoz	p. 236
Ibn Tufayl of Cadiz	p. 237
Averroes and Averroism	p. 242
Transition	p. 249
From the Death of Averroes to the Present Day
General Survey	p. 253
Sunni Thought	p. 263
The Philosophers	p. 263
Al-Abhari	p. 263
Ibn Sab'in	p. 263
Al-Katibi al-Qazwini	p. 265
Rashid al-Din Fadl-Allah	p. 266
Qutb al-Din al-Razi	p. 266
The Theologians of the kalam	p. 267
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi	p. 267
Al-Iji	p. 269
Al-Taftazani	p. 271
Al-Jurjani	p. 272
The Adversaries of the Philosophers	p. 273
Ibn Taymiyah and his followers	p. 273
The Encyclopaedists	p. 275
Zakariya' al-Qazwini	p. 275
Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Amuli	p. 277
Ibn Khaldun	p. 277
The Metaphysics of Sufism	p. 283
Ruzbihan Baqli al-Shirazi	p. 284
'Attar of Nishapur	p. 286
'Umar al-Suhrawardi	p. 289
Ibn al-'Arabi and his school	p. 291
Najm al-Din al-Kubra and his school	p. 296
Al-Simnani	p. 299
'Ali al-Hamadhani	p. 300
Jalal al-Din Rumi and the Mawlawis	p. 301
Mahmud al-Shabistari and Shams al-Din al-Lahiji	p. 304
'Abd al-Karim al-Jili	p. 306
Ni'mat Allah Wali al-Kirmani	p. 308
Hurufis and Bektashis	p. 309
Jami	p. 310
Husayn Kashifi	p. 311
'Abd al-Ghani al-Nablusi	p. 312
Nut 'All-Shah and the Sufi Renewal at the end of the eighteenth century	p. 313
The Dhahabis	p. 316
Shiite Thought	p. 319
Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Shiite kalam	p. 319
The Ismailis	p. 324
The Ishraqi current	p. 327
Shiism and alchemy: al-Jaldaki	p. 331
The integration of Ibn al-'Arabi to Shiite metaphysics	p. 332
Sadr al-Din Dashtaki and the school of Shiraz	p. 335
Mir Damad and the school of Isfahan	p. 338
Mir Findiriski and his pupils	p. 340
Mulla Sadra Shirazi and his pupils	p. 342
Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi and his pupils	p. 345
Qadi Sa'id Qummi	p. 346
From the school of Isfahan to the school of Tehran	p. 348
Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa'i and the Shaykhi school of Kirman	p. 352
Ja'far Kashfi	p. 356
The schools of Khurasan	p. 358
Hadi Sabzavari and the school of Sabzavar	p. 358
The school of Mashhad	p. 362
Perspective	p. 365
Elements of a Bibliography	p. 367
List of Abbreviations	p. 409
Index	p. 413
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