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 awarenes, 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.
Table des matières
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
4. 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
A propos de l’auteur
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. He is the author of
Kavushha-yeh ‘Aql-i Naz and of
Hiram-i Hasti.