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Publishing Date
May 19, 2006
Language
English
ISBN
791468003
Page Count
390
Publisher
State University of New York
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A comprehensive overview of the Islamic philosophical tradition.

AIslamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present offers a comprehensive overview of Islamic philosophy from the ninth century to the present day. As Seyyed Hossein Nasr attests, within this tradition, philosophizing is done in a world in which prophecy is the central reality of life-a reality related not only to the realms of action and ethics but also to the realm of knowledge. Comparisons with Jewish and Christian philosophies highlight the relation between reason and revelation, that is, philosophy and religion.

Nasr presents Islamic philosophy in relation to the Islamic tradition as a whole, but always treats this philosophy as philosophy, not simply as intellectual history. In addition to chapters dealing with the general historical development of Islamic philosophy, several chapters are devoted to later and mostly unknown philosophers. The work also pays particular attention to the Persian tradition.

Nasr stresses that the Islamic tradition is a living tradition with significance for the contemporary Islamic world and its relationship with the West. In providing this seminal introduction to a tradition little-understood in the West, Nasr also shows readers that Islamic philosophy has much to offer the contemporary world as a whole.

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Albanian: Filosofia Islame nga Zanafilla e Saj Deri Sot–Filosofia në Tokëw e Profetësisë. Trans. Edin Q. Lohja. Tirana: Fondacioni Rumi, 2011.
Persian: "تاريخ فلسفۀ اسلامي از آغاز تا امروز". ترجمۀ مهدي نجفي افرا. تهران: جامي، 1394.
Persian: "فلسفه در سرزمين نبوت: فلسفۀ اسلامي از آغاز تا امروز". ترجمۀ بيتالله ندرلو. تهران: ترجمان علوم انساني، 1396.
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian: Islamska filozofija od postanka do danas. S engleskog jezika preveo Rusmir Šadić. Tuzla: Centar za kulturu i edukaciju Logos, 2018.

Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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