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Tables of Contents for An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
xvii
 
List of Reprinted Works
xix
 
List of Transliterations
xxi
 
Prolegomenon
xxiii
 
S. H. Nasr
Part One. Early Persian Philosophy The Zoroastrian Period
Selected Readings from Zoroastrian Philosophy
3
1
Introduction
3
3
M. Aminrazavi
Bundahisn
6
10
E. M. West
Greater Bundahisn
16
7
R. C. Zaehner
Dadistan-i Dinik
23
8
F. Max Muller
Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad
31
8
F. Max Muller
Selected Readings
39
30
Denkard VI
69
19
Sh. Shaked
Part Two. Early Islamic Philosophy A. The Peripatetics
Introduction
85
3
S. H. Nasr
Abu'l-`Abbas Muhammad Iranshahri
88
3
Introduction
M. Aminrazavi
Zad al-musafirin (``Provisions for Travelers'')
M. Aminrazavi
Abu Nasr Farabi
91
44
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
Kitab al-burhan (``Paraphrase of Aristotle's Analytica Posteriora'')
M. Fakhry
Kitab al-jam `bayn ra'yay al-hakimayn, Aflatun al-ilahi wa Aristu (``Reconciliation of the Opinions of the Two Sages, Spiritual Plato and Aristotle'')
S. Inati
Mabadi' ara' ahl al-madinat al-fadilah (``The Perfect State'')
R. Walzer
Abu'l-Hasan `Amiri
135
34
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
al-I `lam bi manaqib al-islam (``An Exposition on the Merits of Islam'') al-Amad `ala'l-abad (``On the Soul and Its Fate'')
E. K. Rowson
Abu Sulayman Sijistani
169
26
Introduction
M. Aminrazavi
Musannafat (``Philosophical Treatises'')
J. L. Kraemer
Ibn Sina
195
79
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
Danish-nama-yi `ala i (``Treatise on Knowledge, Dedicated to Prince `Ala' al-Dawlah'')
T. Gaskil
al-Isharat wa'l-tanbihat (``Remarks and Admonitions'') Creation Ex Nihilo and Immediate Creation
Sh. Inati
al-Shifa' (``The Healing: On Theodicy and Providence'')
Sh. Inati
al-Isharat wa'l-tanbihat (``Remarks and Admonitions'') On Theodicy and Providence
Sh. Inati
al-Shifa' (``The Healing: On Time'')
Y. Shayegan
Fi Maqamat al-`arifin (``On the Stations of the Knowers'')
Sh. Inati
Hayy ibn Yaqzan (``Living Son of the Awake'')
H. Corbin
Mantiq al-mashraqiyyin (``The Logic of the Orientals'')
S. H. Nasr
Abu `Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad Miskawayh
274
59
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
al-Hikmat al-khalidah or Jawidan-khirad (``Perennial Philosophy'')
A. Giese
Tahdhib al-akhlaq (``The Refinement of Character'')
C. Zurayk
Bahmanyar ibn Marzban
333
20
Introduction
M. Aminrazavi
Kitab al-tahsil (``The Book of the Exposition'')
E. K. Rowson
The Independent Philosophers
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
Abu Bakr Muhammad Zakariyya' Razi
353
21
al-Tibb al-ruhani (``Spiritual Physick'') al-Sirat al-falsafiyyah (``On the Philosophic Life'')
A. J. Arberry
Abu Rayhan Biruni
374
27
Introduction
S. H. Nasr
Tahqiq ma li'l-hind (``India'')
E. C. Sachau
al-As'ilah wa'l-ajwibah (``Questions and Answers'')
S. H. Nasr
`Umar Khayyam
401
12
Introduction
M. Aminrazavi
Darurat al-tadadd fi'l-`alam wa'l-jabr wa'l-baqa' (``The Necessity of Contradiction, Free Will and Determinism'') Kulliyyat-i wujud (``Universals of Existence'')
M. W. Rahman
General Bibliography
413
2
Index
415