The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)Taylor & Francis, 27.04.2012 - 352 Seiten The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by an outstanding figure at a crucial time in the history he was himself helping to shape: some twenty years later Tūsī was to cross the greatest psychological watershed in Islamic civilization, playing a leading part in the capture of Baghdad and the extinction of the generally acknowledged Caliphate there. In this work the author is primarily concerned with the criteria of human behaviour: first in terms of space and priority allotted, at the individual level, secondly, at the economic level and thirdly at the political level. |
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... matters for the non-Islamist, or to touch on questions of content interesting to both Islamist and non-Islamist alike, I judged it proper that (in the allotted space I had already considerably exceeded) I should give linguistic concerns ...
... matter. It may be doubted Whether the ingenious attempts of Avicenna and others to Persianize philosophical vocabulary° ever established much of a tradition against the weight and universality of Arabic writings in this area. On this ...
... matter of Man (having the brand of the world of creation) forty times, in ascending degrees towards perfection, from form to form and state to state ('Forty mornings, with my hands I kneaded Adam's clay') ; till when it reached utmost ...
... MATTER IN QUESTION Since our concern in this book is with one of the parts of Philosophy, 6 it is essential to give first an exposition of the meaning of the term and its division into its components, so to make clear the sense to which ...
... matter; and, secondly, a knowledge of that which cannot exist so long as there be no involvement with matter. This latter division is also twice divided: on the one hand is that, into the intellection and conception of which ...