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The wisdom of the mystic East : Suhrawardī and platonic orientalism / John Walbridge.
Van Pelt Library B753.S83 W353 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walbridge, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 1153-1191.
- Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash.
- Ishrāqīyah.
- Islamic philosophy--Greek influences.
- Islamic philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Suhrawardi and the Orient 1
- 1 The Lure of Oriental Wisdom 5
- The Greek Pseudepigrapha and Platonic Orientalism 5
- The Basis of Platonic Orientalism 8
- Suhrawardi as Orientalizing Neoplatonist 13
- 2 Hermes of Egypt: God and Philosopher 17
- Hermes as Universal Sage: Greece, Egypt, Chaldaea 18
- The Problem of Philosophy and the Greek Gods 24
- The Sabians of Harran 37
- The Hermetic in Suhrawardi's Thought 42
- 3 Light, Darkness, and the Kings of Ancient Iran 51
- The Philosophical History of Light 52
- Ghazali, the Ghost at Suhrawardi's Feast 54
- Light, Darkness, and the Persians 57
- 4 Buddha's Gate of Gates: The Problem of Reincarnation 65
- Buddhism and the Muslims 66
- The Indian Sages and the Ancients 70
- The Problem of Reincarnation 73
- Recapitulation 83
- 5 The Past as Orient: The Ideological Heritage of Suhrawardi 85
- Hermes and the Miraculous Preservation of the Avesta 86
- The Commentators and the Persian Side of Suhrawardi 90
- India: The Ancient Sages from Akbar to the Raj 91
- Zoroaster and the Magi: Bruno, Voltaire, and Anquetil 93
- Suhrawardi and Iranian Nationalism: The Persian Sages Return to Iran 105.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791450511
- 079145052X
- OCLC:
- 46462705
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