The Sufi doctrine of man : Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's metaphysical anthropology /

The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʻism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʻite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Todd, Richard, 1968- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2014
Leiden ; Boston : [2014]
Series:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; 90
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 90
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science V.90
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Life and Times
  • Qūnawī's Corpus
  • Intellectual Currents and Debates
  • Cosmology
  • Man's Metaphysical Origins
  • The Human State
  • Liberation
  • The Reception of Qūnawī's Thought
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Critical List of Qūnawī's Works
  • Appendix 2 Qūnawī's Ijāzas to Farghānī and Jandī
  • Appendix 3 Translated Excerpts from Qūnawī's Epistemological Texts
  • Bibliography
  • Index