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The Hidden Masters of Qajar Philosophy: Commentary and Metaphysics, 1789-1925

The Hidden Masters of Qajar Philosophy: Commentary and Metaphysics, 1789-1925

Minichini, Roberto

Paperback

Islam

ISBN13: 9798188402044
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.57 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Very large-format edition. The Hidden Masters of Qajar Philosophy - Commentary and Metaphysics, 1789-1925 - reconstructs the intellectual world of Qajar Iran as an autonomous and highly creative period in the history of Islamic philosophy. Between the establishment of the dynasty in 1789 and its fall in 1925, masters working in Isfahan, Sabzavar, Tehran, Qom, the Iraqi shrine cities, Gilan, Azerbaijan, and India preserved and transformed the traditions of Avicenna, Suhrawardī, Mullā Ṣadrā, Ibn ʿArabī, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, and Ibn Turka Iṣfahānī. The volume follows figures such as Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī (d. 1830/31), Ḥājj Mullā Hādī Sabzavārī (1797-1873), Āqā ʿAlī Mudarris Ṭihrānī (1818-1889), Āqā Muḥammad Riḍā Qumshaʾī (d. 1888/89), Mīrzā Abu'l-Ḥasan Jilva (1823-1897), Jahāngīr Khān Qashqāʾī (1827-1906), Ākhūnd Mullā Muḥammad Kāshī (1834-1915), and Mīrzā Hāshim Ashkivarī (c. 1834-1915). Their teachings are examined through the major questions that defined the period: the primacy and gradation of existence, substantial motion, essence and actuality, knowledge by presence, the unity of the knower and the known, divine manifestation, the Perfect Human Being, walāya, Shi'i imamology, and the relation between rational demonstration and contemplative realization. Particular attention is given to al-Shifāʾ, al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt, Ḥikmat al-ishrāq, al-Asfār al-arbaʿa, Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, Miftāḥ al-ghayb, Miṣbāḥ al-uns, and Tamhīd al-qawāʿid. The book also reconstructs the material life of philosophy through madrasa lessons, private circles, manuscript collation, marginal glosses, student notebooks, authorizations to teach, memorized verse, lithographic editions, and annotated copies. Commentary appears here as a creative intellectual practice through which a lexical correction, reconstructed proof, or carefully formulated objection could redirect the meaning of an authoritative text. The broader historical setting includes the foundation of Dār al-Funūn in 1851, the Reuter concession of 1872-1873, the Tobacco Protest of 1891-1892, the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911, the military occupations and famine of the First World War, and the dynastic transformation of 1925. These events are treated as the changing environment of philosophical life, without reducing metaphysics to political ideology. Written for specialists and serious non-specialists, the volume offers a documented and accessible account of the last great Qajar classrooms and of the scholars who carried their doctrines into the twentieth century.

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