TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yazdī,Mahdī Ḥāʼirī
AU  - Ahmad,Saiyad Nizamuddin
TI  - Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics
T2  - The modern Shī'ah library
SN  - 9789004343115
AV  - B741 .H24813 2017
U1  - 181.07 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - Brill Academic Publishers, Brill
KW  - Islamic philosophy
KW  - Metaphysics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; Editor’s Introduction; Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad --; Introduction --; Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) --; Mental Existence --; Further Issues Relating to Existence --; Contingency (imkān) --; Priority and Posteriority --; Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication --; Quiddity --; Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality (fiʿl) --; Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The Universal Science ( ʿIlm-i kullī ) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī , is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004343115
ER  -