| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The modern Shī'ah library ; volume 2
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Modern Shīʻah library ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Mahdi Ha'iri Yazdi: A Philosophical Life -- 2. John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge -- 3. Translation -- 4. 'Ilm-i kulli: Historical Context and Content -- Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Definition of Metaphysics -- 2. Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics -- 3. Divisions of Philosophy -- 4. Metaphysics in the General Sense -- 2. Existence (wujud) -- Being (hasti) -- 1. Meaning of Existence -- 2. That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition Nor a Descriptive Definition -- 3. Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? -- 4. Definition of Quiddity -- 5. Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence -- 6. Concept of Existence -- 7. Reality of Existence -- 8. Existence is in Addition to Quiddity -- 9. Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence -- 10. Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) -- 3. Mental Existence -- 1. Enigma of Mental Existence -- 2. Solution to the Enigma -- 3. View of Sadr al-Din Shirazi -- 4. Unity of the Intellector and That Which is Intellected -- 4. Further Issues Relating to Existence -- 1. Existence is Absolute Good -- 2. Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality -- 3. Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident -- 4. Existence is Not Compound -- 5. Absolute Existence and Determined Existence -- 6. Secondary Intelligible -- 7. Non-Existent is Not Anything -- 8. There is No Differentiation between Non-Existences, or Any Causal Relationship -- 9. Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent -- 10. History Does Not Repeat Itself -- 11. Making and Effecting -- 12. Three Modes of Existence -- 5. Contingency (imkan) -- 1. General Contingency -- 2. Specific Contingency -- 3. Most Specific Contingency -- 4. Future Contingency -- 5. Pre-Dispositional Contingency -- 6. Contingency of Occurrence -- 7. Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood -- 8. Indigent Contingency -- 9. Analogical Contingency -- 6. Priority and Posteriority -- 1. Coming-Into-Being and Eternity -- 2. Divisions of Priority and Posteriority -- 7. Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication -- 1. Unity and Multiplicity -- 2. Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be òne'] -- 3. Predication -- 4. Division of Predication -- 5. Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition -- 8. Quiddity -- 1. Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts -- 2. Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent -- 3. Mental Conceptions of Quiddity -- 4. Natural Universal -- 5. Existence of the Natural Universal -- 9. Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality (fi'l) -- 10. Cause ('illat) and Effect (ma'lul) -- 1. Causality -- 2. Divisions of the Efficient Cause -- 3. Final Cause -- 4. Premature Death -- 5. Formal Cause -- 6. Material Cause -- 7. Names for Matter -- 8. Divisions of Matter -- 9. Things in Common between all the Causes -- 10. Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes -- 11. Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect -- 12. Discussion between Men of Wisdom -- 13. Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from Persian. |
| Subject |
Islamic philosophy.
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Islamic philosophy. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ahmad, Saiyad Nizamuddin, 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yazdī, Mahdī Ḥāʼirī. Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics. [Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2017 9789004343023 9004343024 (OCoLC)978286796 |
| ISBN |
9789004343115 (electronic book) |
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9004343113 (electronic book) |
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9789004343023 |
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9004343024 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004343115 |
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