Early Philosophical Shiism The Isma'ili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub Al-Sijistani

Name: Early Philosophical Shiism The Isma'ili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub Al-Sijistani
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ISBN: 9780521060820

ISBN-10: 0521060826

ISBN-13: 9780521060820

Edition: 2008

Authors: Paul E. Walker

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The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth Islamic/tenth Christian century. They developed a remarkably successful intellectual programme to sustain and support their political activities, promoting demands of Islamic doctrine together with the then newly imported sciences from abroad. The high watermark of this intellectual movement is best illustrated in the writings of the Ismaili theoretician Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani. Using both published and manuscript writings of al-Sijistani that have hitherto been largely hidden, forgotten or ignored, Dr Paul Walker reveals the scholar's major contribution to the development of philosophical…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

PAUL E. WALKER is a visiting scholar with the University of Chicagoï¿½s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a historian of ideas specializing in medieval Islamic history.




Al-Sijistani's Heritage



The Ismaili message and its philosophers



Religious and philosophical resources



Ismaili predecessors



Al-Sijistani's Universe



Introduction: categories of thought and terms of analysis



A theology of unqualified transcendence



Creation as command



Intellect, the sum of existent being



Descending and ascending soul



Nature and the physical realm



A cosmic anthropology



Prophecy, the deputy of intellect



Interpretation and its institution



Salvation and the womb of history


Epilogue: the use and control of reason