{"product_id":"knowledgeinlaterislamicphilosophy","title":"Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIbrahim Kalin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback, 344 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9780199735242\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Sadra, all these theories land us in a subjectivist theory of knowledge where the knowing subject is defined as the primary locus of all epistemic claims. To explore the possibilities of a 'non-subjectivist' epistemology, Sadra seeks to shift the focus from knowledge as a mental act of representation to knowledge as presence and unveiling. The concept of knowledge has occupied a central place in the Islamic intellectual tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Problem of Knowledge and the Greco-Islamic Context of the Unification Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- The Greco-Alexandrian Background\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Islamic Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Mulla Sadra's Theory of Knowledge and the Unification Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Sadra's Ontology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Existence, Intelligibility and Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Sadra's Synthesis: Knowledge as Experience, Knowledge as Being\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Epistemology Spiritualised: Is Mystical Knowledge Possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Knowledge as Finding Existence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Treatise on the Unification of the Intellector and the Intelligible \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39377740660771,"sku":"9780199735242","price":148.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/faef2ca27a5643b013d64dc7ae30f1f1b1467057.jpg?v=1625808711","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.live\/products\/knowledgeinlaterislamicphilosophy","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}