Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAPHYSICS IN PERSIA

Author: Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
Publisher: www.allamaiqbal.com
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• Part 1 Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy
• CHAP. I. PERSIAN DUALISM
• § I. Zoroaster
• § II. Mānī[16] and Mazdak[17]
• § III. Retrospect
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• Part 2-Greek Dualism
• CHAPTER II: THE NEO‑PLATONIC ARISTOTELIANS OF PERSIA
• 1. IBN MASKAWAIH[1] (d. 1030)
• 1. The existence of the ultimate principle
• 2. The Knowledge of the Ultimate
• 3. How the one creates the many
• 4. The Soul
• 2. AVICENNA (d. 1037)
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• CHAP. III. THE RISE AND FALL OF RATIONALISM IN ISLAM
• § I. The Metaphysics of Rationalism - Materialism
• § II. Contemporary Movements of Thought
• § III. Reaction against Rationalism - The Ash'arīte
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• CHAP. IV. CONTROVERSY BETWEEN IDEALISM AND REALISM
• A. The Nature of the Essence
• B. The Nature of Knowledge
• C. The Nature of Non-existence
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• CHAP. V. ṢŪFĪSM
• § I. The origin and Ourānic Justification of Ṣūfīism
• § II. Aspects of Ṣūfī-Metaphysics
• A. Reality as Self-conscious Will
• B. Reality as Beauty
• C. Reality as Light or Thought
• I. Reality as Light - Al-Ishrāqī
• Return to Persian Dualism
• Ontology
• Cosmology
• Psychology
• II. Reality as Thought - Al-Jīlī
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• CHAP. VI. LATER PERSIAN THOUGHT
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• CONCLUSION