The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence

✍ Scribed by Mehdi Haʼiri Yazdi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: SUNY series in Islam
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book aims to present to western philosophers the most important theme in Islamic epistemology; knowledge by presence, the knowledge that results from immediate and intuitive awareness, advocated by the author as a viable modern philosophical position. Treating the subject in a thoroughly philosophical manner that is comprehensible to contemporary analytical philosophers, he remains faithful to the Islamic tradition.
A professor at Tehran University, Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi is one of the leading Muslim philosophers. He has a deep and wide understanding of medieval Islamic philosophy as well as knowledge of modern analytical techniques and methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Introduction
1 Knowledge by Presence: A History
2 Immanent Object and Transitive Object
3 Knowledge by Presence and Knowledge by Correspondence
4 An Empirical Dimension of Knowledge by Presence
5 The Prime Mode of Knowledge by Presence
6 An Appendix to the Theory of Knowledge by Presence
7 An Expanded Theory of Knowledge by Presence: Mysticism in General
8 Mysticism in the System of Emanation
9 Mystical Unity
10 The Language of Mysticism and Metamysticism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

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