Al- Tanqihat fi Sharh al- Talwihat: Refinement and Commentary on Su...: English 2003

Critical Edition, with Introduction and Analysis by Hossein Ziai & Ahmed Alwishah The present volume is a critical edition of a highly significant 13th century text, Al-Tanqihat fi Sharh al-Talwihat : al-Fann al-Thani fi al-TabiX, on natural philosophy and psychology. The text was written in Arabic by SaXd b. Mansur b. Hibat-Allah b. Kammuna, better known as Ibn Kammuna (d. 683 A.H./1284 A.D.), a distinguished philosopher and oculist from a learned Jewish family of Baghdad, at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in the year 667 A.H./1268A.D. It demonstrates the analytical side of rationalist Islamic philosophy, specifically of the holistic system known as the \Philosophy of Illumination,] and is an extensive commentary on one of the four major texts by the 12th century Persian (Iranian) innovative philosopher, Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi. The text, as indicated by its title, is not a simple commentary, rather an analytical refinement of the Persian thinkerYs arguments on natural philosophy and psychology, with specific emphasis on Illuminationist philosophy. Ibn KammunaYs position in Islamic philosophy is well established. He is known as an Illuminationist philosopher, and is identi