CONTENTS.PART I.Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy.PageChapter I.Persian Dualism1Sec: I.Zoroaster1Sec: II.Mānī and Mazdak12Sec: III.Retrospect20PART II.Greek Dualism.Chapter II.Neo-Platonic Aristotelians of Persia22Sec: I.Ibn Maskawaih26Sec: II.Avicenna38Chapter III.Islamic Rationalism45Sec: I.Metaphysics of Rationalism—Materialism45Sec: II.Contemporary movements of thought55Sec: III.Reaction against Rationalism—The Ash‘arite65Chapter IV.Controversy between Realism and Idealism81Chapter V.Ṣūfīism.96Sec: I.The origin and Quranic justification of Ṣūfīism96Sec: II.Aspects of Ṣūfī Metaphysics111A.Reality as Self-conscious Will112B.RealityasBeauty112C.(1) Reality as Light120(Return to Persian Dualism—Al-Ishrāqī).(2) Reality as Thought—Al-Jīlī121Chapter VI.Later Persian Thought174Conclusion192
PART I.Pre-Islamic Persian Philosophy.PageChapter I.Persian Dualism1Sec: I.Zoroaster1Sec: II.Mānī and Mazdak12Sec: III.Retrospect20PART II.Greek Dualism.Chapter II.Neo-Platonic Aristotelians of Persia22Sec: I.Ibn Maskawaih26Sec: II.Avicenna38Chapter III.Islamic Rationalism45Sec: I.Metaphysics of Rationalism—Materialism45Sec: II.Contemporary movements of thought55Sec: III.Reaction against Rationalism—The Ash‘arite65Chapter IV.Controversy between Realism and Idealism81Chapter V.Ṣūfīism.96Sec: I.The origin and Quranic justification of Ṣūfīism96Sec: II.Aspects of Ṣūfī Metaphysics111A.Reality as Self-conscious Will112B.RealityasBeauty112C.(1) Reality as Light120(Return to Persian Dualism—Al-Ishrāqī).(2) Reality as Thought—Al-Jīlī121Chapter VI.Later Persian Thought174Conclusion192