Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī

• Main Author: Meisami, Sayeh (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion-Philosophy.; Islam-Doctrines.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy of Religion.; Islamic Theology.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This book is a comparative study of two major Shīʿī thinkers Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī from the Fatimid Egypt and Mullā Ṣadrā from the Safavid Iran, demonstrating the mutual empowerment of discourses on knowledge formation and religio-political authority in certain Ismaʿili and Twelver contexts...

Table of Contents:

• CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
• CHAPTER TWO: Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī on the Human Soul and Knowledge.-CHAPTER THREE: Kirmānī's Discourse on the Imamate and its Influence
• CHAPTER FOUR: Mullā Ṣadrā on Knowledge and the Imamate
• CHAPTER FIVE: Mullā Ṣadrā's Legacy and Concluding Remarks.