Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam: Abd Allah Baydawi's Text, Tawali Al-Anwar Min Matali Al-Anzar, Along With Mahmud Isfahani's Commentary, Matali ... Theology, and Science)(2 Volume Set) [Hardcover]

Abd Allah Ibn Umar Baydawi (Author), Mahmud Ibn Abd Al-Rahman Isfahani (Author), Edwin Elliott Calverley (Author), James W. Pollock (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9004121021 | ISBN-13: 978-9004121027 | Publication Date: December 2001

A contemporary to Thomas Aquinas in Latin Catholic Italy, and with a parallel motivation to stabilize each his own civilization in its flux and storm, 'Abd Allah Baydawi of Ilkhan Persia wrote a compact and memorable Arabic Summation of Islamic Natural and Traditional Theology. With the same strokes of his pen he presented the Islamic version of the Science of Theological Statement, bafflingly called "Kalam" while familiarly embracing "Theology." Baydawi's "Tawali'al-Anwar min Matal'al-Anzar" (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a formidably clear logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam. Reality - in nature's Possible mode, in an apodictic Divine mode, and in humanity's heroic Prophetic mode - comprises man's Worldview and is the Theme of the Baydawi/Isfahani discourse. The Edifice of Man and Humanity's evanescent Evidence within it are both hugely arresting and moving.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Arabic

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1183 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004121021
• ISBN-13: 978-9004121027
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 3.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,890,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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