Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran

Ata Anzali, Ph.D. (2012), Rice University, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Middlebury College. He is the author of Mysticism in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept (University of South Carolina, 2017).S. M. Hadi Gerami, Ph.D. (2016), Imam Sadiq University, is Assistant Professor of Islamic and Qur'anic Studies at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran. He is the author of The Earliest Shi‘i doctrinal interactions: Revisiting the Concept of ‘ghuluww’ in Early Shi’i Networks (ISU University Press, 2012).

• Note on TransliterationEditors’ IntroductionPhilosophy and Philosophers: Hapless Victims or Elite Contenders? Muḥammad-Ṭāhir QummīHikmat al-ʿĀrifīnThe Critical EditionBibliographyPlatesCritical Edition of Hikmat al-ʿĀrifīn

“The quality of editing of the Arabic text, by Muhammad Hadi Gerami, is to be praised. He has done a tremendous amount of work to make the text accessible to a wider readership. The indexes are prepared meticulously and facilitate use of the edited text. All in all, Gerami’s edition of Ḥikmat al-ʿārifīn is a major contribution to the history of intellectual and political life in Safavid Iran.” Kioumars Ghereghlou, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 140/2 (2020)