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Reason unbound : on spiritual practice in Islamic peripatetic philosophy / Mohammad Azadpur.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 179 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461906339
  • 1461906334
  • 1438437641
  • 9781438437644
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reason unbound.DDC classification:
  • 181/.07 22
LOC classification:
  • B741 .A985 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Islamic philosophy and the crisis of modern rationalism -- Beyond orientalism and academic rationalism : a critique of the standard readings of Islamic philosophy -- To the things themselves : Corbin and Heidegger on phenomenological access -- From the things themselves to prophecy : philosophical cultivation in Islamic peripateticism -- Disciplining the imagination : intellect, imagination, and prophecy -- The theologian's dream : imagination and intellectual heresy -- On human finitude, conscience, and exemplarity : a comparison between Islamic philosophy and phenomenology -- Importance of Islamic peripateticism for modern philosophy in the West and its impact on later Islamic philosophy.
Summary: Peripatetic philosophy is taken to mean the work of Alfarabi and Avicenna, with significant contributions from Ghazali and Averroes and this work is brought into contrast with the dualities of modern rationalism (p. 3).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islamic philosophy and the crisis of modern rationalism -- Beyond orientalism and academic rationalism : a critique of the standard readings of Islamic philosophy -- To the things themselves : Corbin and Heidegger on phenomenological access -- From the things themselves to prophecy : philosophical cultivation in Islamic peripateticism -- Disciplining the imagination : intellect, imagination, and prophecy -- The theologian's dream : imagination and intellectual heresy -- On human finitude, conscience, and exemplarity : a comparison between Islamic philosophy and phenomenology -- Importance of Islamic peripateticism for modern philosophy in the West and its impact on later Islamic philosophy.

Print version record.

Peripatetic philosophy is taken to mean the work of Alfarabi and Avicenna, with significant contributions from Ghazali and Averroes and this work is brought into contrast with the dualities of modern rationalism (p. 3).