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Nature, man and God in medieval Islam : Abd Allah Baydawi's Text, Tawali Al-Anwar Min Matali Al-Anzar, along with Mahmud Isfahani's Commentary, Matali Al-Anzar, Sharh Tawali Al-Anwar.
Title:
Nature, man and God in medieval Islam : Abd Allah Baydawi's Text, Tawali Al-Anwar Min Matali Al-Anzar, along with Mahmud Isfahani's Commentary, Matali Al-Anzar, Sharh Tawali Al-Anwar.
Author:
Calverley, E.E.
ISBN:
9789047400905
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1247 pages)
Contents:
VOLUME ONE -- Contents of volume one -- Acknowledgments -- Translators' Introduction -- A note on the translation, its edition and revision -- A note on 'Abd Allah Baydawi [d. 1316?] -- A note on Mahmud Isfahani [1276-1348] -- THE TRANSLATION -- Foreword to the Commentary -- Foreword to the Subject Text -- Isfahani's Commentary to Baydawi's Text begins -- AUTHORS' INTRODUCTION: STUDIES IN LOGICAL REASONING -- Chapter 1: Principles of epistemology -- Chapter 2: Explanatory statements -- Chapter 3: Argumentation -- Chapter 4: The distinguishing properties of sound logical reasoning -- BOOK ONE: REALITIES POSSIBLE -- Section 1: Universals -- Section 2: Accidents -- Section 3: Substances -- VOLUME TWO -- Contents of Volume Two -- BOOK TWO: REALITIES DIVINE -- Section 1: The essence of God -- Section 2: The attributes of God -- Section 3: The acts of God and the acts of mankind [by topics] -- BOOK THREE: REALITIES PROPHETIC -- Section 1: Prophethood [by topics] -- Section 2: The resurrection assembly and the recompense [by topics] -- Section 3: The supreme leadership of the Muslim community [by topics] -- Table of Romanization -- Glossary -- Illustrations to Book 1, Section 3 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Abd Allah Baydawi's "Tawali'al-Anwar min Matal'al-Anzar" (Rays of Dawnlight Outstreaming from Far Horizons of Logical Reasoning), with Mahmud Isfahani's commentary, is a logical and mental vision of mankind's final completion as a spiritual structure in Islam. This work concerns this topic.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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