Sadr al-D¿n Q¿naw¿: I¿j¿z al-bay¿n, Gebunden

Klappentext

adr al-Dn Qnaw (d. 1274) is arguably the most important thinker of the generation following the main founders of medieval philosophy-al-Frb, Ibn Sn, Ibn Arab and Suhravard-and before Mull adr. Despite this, almost nothing of his writings has been translated into English though critical Arabic editions of his major writings have been published.

Ijz al-bayn, his magnum opus, explores some key questions in philosophy, among which is speech (divine and human) in the unfolding of knowing and being. In this influential work, Qnaw lays forth in detail the principles and semiological tools for interpreting the opening chapter of the Qur'n, the Ftia. Widely known as the epitome of the Qur'n, the Ftia was also understood to indicate the divine 'opening', the 'beginning' of being's unfolding. Far from a mere analysis of concepts or epistemology, his philosophical 'exegesis' is about the self-identical unfolding of speech from the hidden secrecy of the divine source, from which flows God's creative command, Be!

The doubt that Ibn Sn expressed concerning the human capacity to know the 'realities of things' manifested in this unfolding-namely, the letters, words, sentences and meanings of the divine writ of being-by dint of man's faculties was critical to Qnaw's dynamic understanding of what a plenary knowledge of anything must be.

This is an authoritative edition of the Arabic text with an introduction by the editor in English and Arabic explaining the mechanics and publication history behind the edition and concisely summarizing the book's contents.

The present is a companion volume to The Limits of Discursive Interpretation: A Translation of 'Kitb ijz al-bayn f tafsr Umm al-Kitb' by adr al-Dn Qnaw.