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The Development of Metaphysics in Persia: A Contribution to the History of Muslim PhilosophyIqbal, Muhammad, Sir

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The Development of Metaphysics in Persia: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy

Name: The Development of Metaphysics in Persia: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy
Author: Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir

Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir

Islamic philosophy; Islamic philosophy -- Iran; Philosophy, Iranian

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                                        S. M. IQBAL.

CONTENTS.

  PART I.
  Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy.
                                                             Page
  Chapter I. Persian Dualism                                    1
    Sec: I.   Zoroaster                                         1
    Sec: II.  Mānī and Mazdak                                   12
    Sec: III. Retrospect                                       20

  PART II.
  Greek Dualism.

  Chapter II. Neo-Platonic Aristotelians of Persia             22
    Sec: I.   Ibn Maskawaih                                    26
    Sec: II.  Avicenna                                         38

  Chapter III. Islamic Rationalism                             45
    Sec: I.   Metaphysics of Rationalism--Materialism          45
    Sec: II.  Contemporary movements of thought                55
    Sec: III. Reaction against Rationalism--The As̱ẖ‘arite      65

  Chapter IV. Controversy between Realism and Idealism         81

  Chapter V. Ṣūfīism.
    Sec: I.   The origin and Quranic justification of Ṣūfīism   96
    Sec: II.  Aspects of Ṣūfī Metaphysics                      111
         A. Reality as Self-conscious Will                    112
         B. Reality as Beauty                                 112
         C. (1) Reality as Light                              120
                (Return to Persian Dualism--Al-Is̱ẖrāqī).
            (2) Reality as Thought--Al-Jīlī                    121

  Chapter VI. Later Persian Thought                           174

  Conclusion                                                  192

PART I.

Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy.

CHAP. I.

PERSIAN DUALISM.

§ I.

Zoroaster.

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The Development of Metaphysics in Persia: A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy

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