The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mull膩 Sadr膩
Hardcover
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- $45.00/拢38.00
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- Published:
- Nov 16, 2006
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 504
- Size:
- 6 x 9 in.
This recent study by Christian Jambet explores the essential elements of the philosophical system of Mull膩 Sadr膩 Sh墨r膩z墨, an Iranian Shi鈥榠te of the seventeenth century. The writings of Mull膩 Sadr膩 Sh墨r膩z墨 (d. 1640) bear witness to the divine revelation in every act of being, from the most humble to the most eminent.
More generally, Islamic philosophy employs an ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of metaphysics, an ontology that belongs to our own universe of thought. Jambet鈥檚 brilliant study seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real, nourished by the Sufism of Ibn al-鈥楢rab墨, the philosophy of classical Islam, the thought inherited from the Greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimension of Shi鈥榠sm.
Mull膩 Sadr膩 saw the world as moving ceaselessly in an uninterrupted revolution of its substances, in which infinite existence breaks through the successive boundaries of the sensible and the intelligible, the mineral and the angelic. In a flourish of epiphanies, in the multiplied mirror of bodies and souls, Mull膩 Sadr膩 perceived absolute divine liberty.
Revealing freedom in the metamorphosis of the believer and the sage, existence teaches the imitation of the divine that can be seen 鈥渋n its most beautiful form.鈥 Reading Mull膩 Sadr膩 reveals the nexus of politics, morality, liberty, and order in his universe of thought 鈥 a universe, as Christian Jambet shows, that is indispensable to our understanding of Islamic thought and spirituality.
鈥淭his 鈥 is not simply an antiquarian passion. It is a matter of discovering not an old and worn-out artifact but rather what Islam says about being as being. It is also a matter of knowing what Islam says about its own being, its own decision concerning being鈥.It is a matter of understanding the ontology of Islam in both senses of the expression: the doctrine of being that Islam slowly brought to completion, and that which constitutes the being of Islam itself, its ontological foundation.鈥濃 from the preface to The Act of Being