Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran. Mulla Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummi’s Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn

468 Pages·2018·7.03 MB·English

by  Ata Anzali

Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran
Islamicate Intellectual History
studies and texts in the late medieval
and early modern periods
Editorial board
Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford)
Shahzad Bashir (Brown University)
Heidrun Eichner (University of Tübingen)
VOLUME 3
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Opposition to Philosophy
in Safavid Iran
Mulla Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummī’s
Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn
Introduction and Critical Edition by
Ata Anzali
S. M. Hadi Gerami
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Qummī, Safīnat al-najāt, 137-39
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Contents
Note on Transliteration ix
Editors’ Introduction 1
Philosophy and Philosophers: Hapless Victims or Elite
Contenders? 3
Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummī 15
Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn 33
The Critical Edition 43
Bibliography 47
Plates 54
Critical Edition of Ḥikmat al-ʿĀrifīn 57

Note on Transliteration
For the English introduction, the transliteration system of the Journal of Islamic
Studies has been used for Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman respectively with one
minor modification: the initial and final hamzas have been omitted in all cases.
The decision whether to transliterate a book title, personal name, or a tech-
nical term according to Arabic, Persian, or Ottoman scheme has been made
based on the context. For example, al-Favāʾid al-dīniyyah and not al-Fawāʾid
al-dīniyya because the content of the book is in Persian. Similarly, Fayż Kāshānī
and not Fayḍ al-Kāshānī because he is from a Persian background.