Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12102-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 724 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2404 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

A contemporary to Thomas Aquinas in Latin Catholic Italy, and with a parallel motivation to stabilize each his own civilization in its flux and storm, ‘Abd Allah Baydawi of Ilkhan Persia wrote a compact and memorable Arabic Summation of Islamic Natural and Traditional Theology. With the same strokes of his pen he presented the Islamic version of the Science of Theological Statement, bafflingly called "Kalam" while familiarly embracing "Theology".
Baydawi's Tawali‘al-Anwar min Matal‘al-Anzar (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a formidably clear logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam.
Reality - in nature's Possible mode, in an apodictic Divine mode, and in humanity's heroic Prophetic mode - comprises man's Worldview and is the Theme of the Baydawi/Isfahani discourse. The Edifice of Man and Humanity's evanescent Evidence within it are both hugely arresting and moving.
All volumes of the print edition will become available in individual e-books: 9789004531468 (volume 1) - 9789004531475 (volume 2).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calverley, Edwin

Pollock, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Pollock M.A. (1961) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary, is Retired Librarian for Near Eastern Studies at the Indiana University Library, Bloomington. Pollock edited and recast E.E. Calverley's translation draft of the Baydawi - Isfahani Summation of Islamic Theology.