Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies

Ali Gheissari D. Phil. University of Oxford, is Professor of History at the University of San Diego with research interest in the intellectual history of modern Iran. He has written extensively in Persian and English on modern Iranian history and on modern philosophy and social theory. His publications include Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century 1998; reissued, 2008; Persian translation of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics with Hamid Enayat, 1991; new edition with revisions, 2015, amongst numerous other books and articles. Ali Gheissari is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Iranian Studies.John Walbridge, Ph.D. Harvard, is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington. His academic specialty is post-classical Islamic philosophy, particularly the Illuminationist school, though he has also published on Islamic science and medicine and Islamic studies more generally. He is the author, co-author, or translator of nine books, including three monographs on Suhrawardī and the Illuminationist school. Ahmed Alwishah, Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges and a life member of Clare Hall College at Cambridge University. His research focuses on Islamic philosophy and philosophy of language in Islamic tradition. He is the co-editor of Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, 2015, and Ibn Kammūna Refinement and Commentary of Suhrawardī’s Intimations, 2002 amongst other publications. Contributors:Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, Ahmed Alwishah, Charles Butterworth, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ali Gheissari, Malihe Karbassian, Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, Christian Lange, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Jon McGinnis, Nasrollah Pourjavady, Reza Pourjavady, L.W. Cornelis van Lit, John Walbridge

• PrefaceNote on ContributorsI. Introduction1. Ali Gheissari, “Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio Bibliographical Introduction”2. John Walbridge, “Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies”II. Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination3. John Walbridge, “Illuminationist Manuscripts: Rediscovery and Reception of Suhrawardī”4. Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghitā’ li Ikhwān al-Safā.” Translation of Kashf al-Ghiṭā’ by John Walbridge5. John Walbridge, “Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages”6. Malihe Karbassian, “The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy”7. Nasrollah Pourjavady, “Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardī”III. The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators8. Ahmed Alwishah, “Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents”9. Y. Tzvi Langermann, “Ithbāt al-Mabda’ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic”10. L.W.Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange, “Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazurīi’s Rasā’il al-Shajarah al-Ilāhīiyya”11. Reza Pourjavady, “Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It”IV. The Wider Tradition12. Khaled El-Rouayheb, “Takmīil al-Mantiq: A Sixteenth Century Arabic Manual on Logic”13. Charles Butterworth, Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy”14. Jon McGinnis, “Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space”15. Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, “Translation of Mullā Sadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfier)”Index

"This volume delivers what the editors promise at the outset: to introduce “new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy” (p. ix). It puts together scholarly editions of many texts which have not been available to Western readers, along with highly engaging introductions, helpful notes, and detailed bibliographies. For this, the editors and contributors deserve our gratitude." - Rasoul Namazi in Iranian Studies (2020)