| Nature Man And God In Medieval Islam |
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Nature Man and God In Medieval Islam – Book Sample
AbdAllah Baydawi’s Text Tavali’ Al-Anwar Min Matali’ Al-Anzar Along with Mahmud Isfahani’s Commentary Matali’ Al-Anzar, Sharh Tawali’ Al-Anwar Edited and Translated By Edwin É. Calverley And James W. Pollock
NATURE MAN AND GOD IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM
The historical and intellectual setting in which the two authors worked must be clear to every reader’s awareness as we proceed in this translation. The hope is that interested students will note and appre ciate the intellectual landscape of our authors’ worldview as they state what they mean with emotional perseverance and convinced judgment.
Here we should note the aptness of their book titles for this purpose. Baydawi’s name for his concise text as it may be translated, “Rays ef dawnlight outstreaming .from far horizons ef logi.cal reasoning’,
is more than a short-lived floral centerpiece of words. Indeed, it con notes both the physical presence of the mountainous terrain of his native Iran and the palpable intellectual milieu of the great minds who personify the high peaks and far horizons of logical reasoning.
Then Isfahani’s title inverts Baydawi’s wording and gives a different perspective in which the connotations are likewise immediately perceptible, also as translated, “High vistas ef logical reasoning, a commen
tary on ‘Rays ef dawnlight outstreaming.”‘ 3 Through these titles Baydawi and his Commentator together make the plain statement of their
admiration and respect for the work of those other scholars, con temporary and past, from whom came these “Rays of dawnlight out streaming.” From Aristotle to Ash’ari and Jubba’i, to Ibn Sina, Ghazali and Fakhr al-Din Razi, Baydawi gathered their ‘dawnlight rays’ of careful thinking and systematically focussed them into a clear and coherent picture, very much worth the observation.
A time chart is presented herewith showing the relative dates of Baydawi and Isfahani together with dates for other great scholars looming up in this panorama.
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