Shah Wali Allah

Shah Wali Allah
Author: Hafiz Khan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991462100

This work is concerned mainly with the metaphysical thought of Shah Wali Allah (1114-1176/1703-1762), the greatest Muslim scholar of eighteenth century India. From the intellectual point of view, eighteenth century has a similar importance for the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent as it has for the West. By that time, Shah Wali Allah set out to reformulate the religio-intellectual legacy of Islam in order to reorganize the Muslims on the basis of their religion. The most distinguished feature of this movement was that theological and metaphysical issues were interpreted rationally. Reason was used not as a weapon against religious truth but as instrument for supporting it.

The Conclusive Argument from God

The Conclusive Argument from God
Author: Shāh Walī Allāh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004444769

This important and comprehensive work of 18th-century Islamic religious thought written in Arabic by a pre-eminent South Asian scholar provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period.

The Conclusive Argument from God

The Conclusive Argument from God
Author: Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789004102989

The Conclusive Argument from God is the master work of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the eighteenth century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shah Wali Allah develops a cohesive schema of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time. This work provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period and is still evoked by numerous contemporary Islamic movements.

Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
Author: Zailan Moris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136858598

This book examines and analyses the legitimacy of the widely held claim that Mulla Sadra's philosophy (al-hikmah al-muta'aliyyah) is a synthesis of principles and doctrines drawn from revelation (wahy), gnosis ('irfan/ma'rifah) and discursive philosophy (al-hikmah al-bahthiyyah). In Mulla Sadra's view, these three major sources of knowledge can be brought together without contradiction and accorded their respective roles in the human quest for true and certain knowledge. This book discusses and demonstrates how Mulla Sadra achieves this synthesis as contained in and exemplified by his text, al-Hikmah al-'arshiyyah or Wisdom from the Divine Throne. An evaluation on whether or not Mulla Sadra's synthesis is successful is also undertaken. The criteria used for the evaluation are the internal coherence of his ideas, their conformity to Islamic teachings and impact on Islamic thinkers after him.