This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. Kashani did not write for advanced students of philosophy but rather for beginners. In the main body of his work, he offers especially clear and insightful expositions of various philosophical positions, making him an invaluable resource for those who would like to learn the basic principles and arguments of this philosophical tradition but do not have a strong background in philosophy. Here, Chittick uses Kashani and his work to introduce the basic issues and arguments of Islamic philosophy to modern readers.
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William C. Chittick is at State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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unconditioned existent, intellective world, innovated things, nonmanifest spirits, intellective potency, vegetal body, unconditioned body, bodily tools, anthropocosmic vision, vegetal soul, engendered things, universal existents, intellective forms, actualized intellect, noble character traits, perceiving soul, vegetal substance, animal potencies, giving awareness, utmost end, unconditioned existence, particular existents, theoretical intellect, human specificity, first intellect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baba Afdal, Bábá Afdal, Agent Intellect, The Rungs of Perfection, Alchemy of Felicity, First Real, The Treatise of the Apple, Divine Presence, Surely God, Baba Aft, Prime Matter, Divine Book, Higher Plenum, Necessary Being, One Real, Section Four, Twenty-Eight Words of Counsel New!
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unconditioned existent, intellective world, innovated things, nonmanifest spirits, intellective potency, vegetal body, unconditioned body, bodily tools, anthropocosmic vision, vegetal soul, engendered things, universal existents, intellective forms, actualized intellect, noble character traits, perceiving soul, vegetal substance, animal potencies, giving awareness, utmost end, unconditioned existence, particular existents, theoretical intellect, human specificity, first intellect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baba Afdal, Bábá Afdal, Agent Intellect, The Rungs of Perfection, Alchemy of Felicity, First Real, The Treatise of the Apple, Divine Presence, Surely God, Baba Aft, Prime Matter, Divine Book, Higher Plenum, Necessary Being, One Real, Section Four, Twenty-Eight Words of Counsel New!
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- Hellenic and Christian Studies (Collected Studies) by A. H. Armstrong on 5 pages
- Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology by Ian Richard Netton on page 307, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Metaphysica of Avicenna by Parviz Morewedge in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A History of Islamic Philosophy by Majid Fakhry in Front Matter, and page 307
- Vision of Islam (Visions of Reality) by Sachiko Murata in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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