Commentary Upon the Foundation of Intellectual Perspicacity Concerning Logic, Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics and Mathematics: Sharh Asas Al-kiyasat ... (English, Old Persian and Arabic Edition) - Softcover

Nasafi, Burhan Al-din

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568593074 ISBN 13: 9781568593074

Publisher: Mazda Pub, 2015

Synopsis

Sharh Asas al-kiyasah is an important, yet little known, philosophical writing of Burhan al-Din Nasafi (d. 684/1286), a leading member of the intellectual School of Ma-wara-al-nahr. In this work, Nasafi has followed the lead of the Peripatetics, notably Avicenna, in most philosophical issues.

The biographical sources mention Nasafi, first and foremost, as a
dialectician, due to his short treatise on the rules of jadal, al-Mughaddamat al-nasafiyah. Later in life, however, when he settled in Baghdad, teaching the intellectual and transmitted sci-ences, he was remarkably recognized as being well versed in philosophy. The famous historian Ibn al-Wardi (d.749/1349) described him as the greatest master of philosophy in Baghdad.

Nasafi`s main writings include: Sharh al- Isharat wa al-tanbihat,
al-Mughaddamat al-nasafiyah, sharh al- asma al-husna, and Makarim al-akhlaq.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mazda Pub
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1568593074
• ISBN 13: 9781568593074
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 442
• Editor: Dadkhah Gholamreza, Goodarznia Abbas