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Abstract:
Analyzes Shaykh Ahmad's groundbreaking process metaphysics and cosmology through "The Wisdom Observations," marking his departure from traditional Muslim substance-based philosophical thought. (Link to document, offsite.)
Notes:
A dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy of State University of New York at Buffalo in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Document online at academia.edu. Also available at walayah.org/project/shaykh-ahmad, where the following note appears: "Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid would like to emphasize that his own research on the Shaykh has developed and grown since finishing the dissertation, and so should not be taken as an expression of his current views on the topic. On the other hand, given the historical and seminal value of this dissertation as the first philosophical investigation in the West devoted to the thought of Shaykh Aḥmad, he has agreed to make it publicly available on this website to the intellectual community". |
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Abstract: The subject of this study is the process metaphysics and cosmology of Shaykh ’Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-’Ahsā’ī (d. 1826), especially as outlined in al-Fawā’id al-Hikmiyyah (The Wisdom Observations), his philosophical epitome, which we have edited and translated. With Shaykh ’Ahmad ended the cycle of the great and original philosophers of traditional Muslim civilization, a cycle that began with al-Kindi (d. 870). Shaykh ’Ahmad belonged to the period of Muslim scholasticism that stemmed from the work of both the kalām theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1209) and the last great philosopher in the post-Hellenic tradition, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274). In particular, Shaykh ’Ahmad worked two centuries after Mulla Ṣadrā (d. 1640–41). The latter, through his theory of motion in the category of substance, marked the beginning of a turn towards process philosophy in Muslim scholasticism, a turn marked by a still strict adherence to Peripatetic method. My general contention is that Shaykh ’Ahmad, whose philosophy in part consists of a critique of Mulla Ṣadrā, went beyond the confines of Muslim scholasticism and Peripatetic technique to develop a true process metaphysics and cosmology, in contrast with the more traditional substance metaphysics. |
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