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 of Content
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
About the author
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. He is the author and editor of many books, including Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization.
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