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Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy

লেখক / Author: Ibrahim Kalin

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This study looks at how the seventeenth-century philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi, known as Mulla Sadra, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophical discourses: revelation (Qur’an), demonstration (burhan), and gnosis or intuitive knowledge (‘irfan). In his grand synthesis, which he calls the 'Transcendent Wisdom’, Mulla Sadra bases his epistemological considerations on a robust analysis of existence and its modalities. His key claim that knowledge is a mode of existence rejects and revises the Kalam definitions of knowledge as relation and as a property of the knower on the one hand, and the Avicennan notions of knowledge as abstraction and representation on the other. For Sadra, all these theories land us in a subjectivist theory of knowledge where…

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pages: 344

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9780190453657

ISBN-10: 0190453656