Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics: 2 (The Modern Shīʿah Library, 2) - Softcover

Mehd Ir Yazd; Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004343342 ISBN 13: 9789004343344

Publisher: BRILL, 2017

Synopsis

The Universal Science (Ilm-i kull) by Mehdi airi Yazd is a concise and authoritative introduction to the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. This short work offers an accessible, lucid, and deeply learned, guide through the living tradition of Sh philosophy.

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About the Author

Mehd Hir-Yazd (19231999) (Ph.D. University of Toronto) was an eminent Sh intellectual. He taught at Harvard and Oxford, and was Professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Tehran. He was the author of several diverse texts ranging from epistemology to political theory. John Cooper (19471998) was E.G Browne Lecturer in Persian at the University of Cambridge. He studied at Cambridge and the Islamic seminary in Qum, Iran. He was the general editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, as well as a prolific author and translator. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (Ph.D, Princeton University) is Reader in Shah Studies at the Shah Institute. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, contributed to several journals, and is the author of a critical edition of Ibn Arabs Fu al-ikam (Cairo, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004343342
• ISBN 13: 9789004343344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226