Index
actus essendi
68
actus
57, 68, 82–85, 87, 139, 192, 195
actuality
23–25, 97, 99, 103, 114, 137, 195
affirmative
3, 6, 10, 60–61, 66, 75, 90, 106, 134–136, 139, 169, 171, 173–174, 177–178, 192, 193–194, 201–202
agnostic theology
3, 10, 75
aḥad
129, 169, 175
aḥadīyyat
129, 130, 137, 192, 207
analogical discourse
15
analogical predication
10, 75, 77, 80, 82, 91, 183, 191, 208, 217
analogy
11, 52, 57, 65, 73, 75–82, 86–88, 114, 133, 159, 165, 183, 197, 208
analytical philosophy
6, 16
analytical Thomism
45–46, 49, 51–55
apophatic
14, 54, 83, 87, 138–139, 165, 170, 174, 193
apophatic theology
138, 170, 174
apophaticism
3, 14
ʿaql
105–106, 109, 136n130, 144, 171–173
Aquinas
6, 8, 15, 45, 49, 51–53, 57, 59, 61, 65, 67, 68–75, 77–80, 82–91, 95, 165, 174, 195, 198–199
ʿarsh
155
Āshtīyānī, Siyyid Jalāl al-Dīn
31
attributes of action
33, 129, 134, 135, 136, 139, 156, 160, 168, 193, 208, 209
attributes of beauty
135, 149
attributes of majesty
135
Avicenna
3, 6, 12, 27, 33, 45, 95n4, 136n131, 172
being (existence, existent)
11–15, 33–34, 48, 49, 61, 67, 68–69, 71–72, 74, 76–77, 79, 80–85, 87, 90, 91, 96, 97–100, 103, 108–110, 115, 118, 119, 121–122, 127, 128–137, 139, 140–149, 154, 156–157, 159, 161, 163, 164, 166–175, 176–177, 182, 191, 192–196, 198–201, 207, 209–210
bidāyat al-ḥikma (The Elements of Islamic Metaphysics)
28, 31–32, 34, 42, 102, 128, 195
Burrell, David
2–3, 5–6, 15–16, 53, 57
Burūjirdī, Āyatullāh Ḥusiyn ʿAlī-i
21
cataphatic
14, 138–139, 165, 171
cataphaticism
3
causality
12, 33, 54, 84–85, 98, 104, 108, 114, 142, 144, 194, 217
comparative philosophy of religion
211, 216, 219
comparative theology
58, 210–211, 214–216
conceptual metaphor theory (CMT)
153, 184, 186–188
congregation (ijtimāʿ)
109, 112, 119, 121, 123, 125, 163
contingency (imkān)
69, 98, 144
contingent (mumkin)
53, 83, 98–99, 101, 114–115, 118, 120, 132, 133, 137, 141, 154, 156, 175, 193, 201
Corbin, Henry
31, 39–40
Dabāshī, Hamīd
20, 21, 22, 42
depth-grammar
1, 8, 11, 15, 58, 60, 76, 115, 218
dialectical materialism
29
divine action
38, 44, 61, 82–83, 86–87, 91, 139–141, 167–168, 171, 193, 198–199, 209
divine attributes
12, 16n24, 33, 128–130, 134–140, 145, 149, 152, 156, 158, 160, 164, 167–168, 177, 193, 208–210
divine immanence
4
divine names
17, 37–38, 63, 83, 90–91, 93, 106, 128–131, 133–136, 142, 145, 160, 166, 168–169, 172, 178
divine simplicity
61, 67, 129–130, 138, 169–170, 176, 192
divine transcendence
3–4, 10, 67, 71–72, 74, 104, 169, 192–193, 206
effect
84–85, 102, 107, 141, 157, 194, 198, 211
emanation
25, 86
equivocal
76, 78, 80, 115, 172, 196
equivocality
180
equivocation
139
esse (Latin conceptual counterpart to vujūd)
51–52, 68, 69, 73, 81, 83–85, 115, 177, 192, 195, 198–199, 208
extra-mental realities
24–26, 97, 117, 120, 122, 202
family resemblance
5, 52, 184, 213, 218
fiʿlīyyat-i maḥż
209
fiṭrat
108–110, 123–124, 153, 157, 161, 163
focal meaning
4, 11, 16–17, 32, 76, 77, 81–82, 93, 124, 145, 152, 154–156, 158, 160, 165–166, 178–182, 190–191, 194, 204–205, 208
form of life
2, 88
Ghazālī
37, 45, 124, 145–152, 159, 206
god-talk
2, 4, 9–10, 15–17, 32, 36, 53–55, 57, 59–63, 65, 67–68, 70, 74–75, 78, 82, 88, 92, 124, 128, 139, 145–146, 165, 169–170, 174, 176–178, 192, 204–205, 208, 217
gradationality of existence
196
grammatical Thomism
15–16, 44–45, 53, 54–56, 90
ḥaqāʾiq
24–25, 97, 117
ḥaqīqī (true)
114n67, 127, 140, 146, 148, 153–154, 163, 179, 190–191
ḥaqq (truth)
130, 169
ḥarikat (motion)
99
ḥayāt (life)
129, 136, 154
hierarchy of divine names
136
hierarchy
128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 164, 169, 198
human constitution
110
human perfection(s)
26, 142, 143
Ibn-i ʿArabī
30, 37, 94, 151
Ibn-i Sīnā
3, 6, 11–12, 23, 27, 93, 95, 99, 103, 110, 111, 113, 130–131, 165–166, 170, 199
Ibrāhīmī-i Dīnānī, Ghulāmḥusiyn-i
30
idealism
29
individuality
103, 200
instantiated
196
intellect
12, 68, 80–81, 88, 89–90, 94, 102, 105, 106, 109, 131, 136n130, 144, 148, 151, 156, 162, 164, 200
intellection
105–106
intellectual therapy
16
intensity of existence
132, 143
intercultural philosophy
12
interreligious theology
215–216
interreligious understanding (Jewish–Christian–Muslim)
58
ʿirfān
166
Islamic mysticism
31, 95
Islamic philosophical theology
17, 29, 31, 94, 107, 199
Islamic philosophy of religion
2, 18, 44, 165–209
Islamic philosophy
1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 17–19, 22, 25, 28, 34–35, 39, 40, 42, 44, 93–94, 128–129, 132, 164–209, 218
Islamic theology
17, 20, 31, 38, 42, 111, 113, 134, 206
istikhdam
36, 112, 119, 163
iʿtibārīyyāt (mental constructs)
3, 4, 7, 12, 15–16, 23–25, 33, 35–36, 93, 97, 108, 109–113, 115–116, 118, 127, 140, 152, 157, 160, 162, 179–180, 205–206
jadal (Islamic dialectic)
111, 113
judgement
13, 48–49, 55, 81, 92, 97, 106, 122
Kadīvar, Muḥsin-i
22
kalām (speech, theology)
17, 20, 31, 94, 111–113, 153–154, 156, 163, 166, 182, 206
Kant
46, 49
Kantian
46–48
Kenny, Anthony
51–53
kullī-i ṭabīʿī
113
Lakoff, George
184, 186–188, 190
language game
219
literal
15, 70, 108, 127, 146–148, 150, 153–154, 157, 163–164, 178–179, 181, 183–191, 203, 208, 210
literality
37, 93, 128, 166, 178–179, 183–184, 186–191, 203, 208
logical fallacies (mughālaṭāt)
23–24
logical space of God-talk
55, 60, 67, 74, 169, 177, 192, 217
Lonergan, Bernard
48, 55
MacIntyre, Alasdair
3
Maimonides
45, 73
maktab-i tafkīk (School of Separation)
6, 32n24
materialism
29, 30
McCabe, Herbert
53–54
meta-confessional
215–216
metaphor
15, 57, 82, 84, 111, 114, 117, 153, 164, 180, 183–190, 195, 197, 201–203, 209
metaphorical
7, 10, 15, 78, 108, 117, 128, 141, 146–149, 153, 155, 157, 163–164, 168, 182–191, 203, 208–209, 217
metaphoricity
37, 93, 128, 183–184, 187, 189, 191, 214
metaphysical realism
55, 131, 217
Miṣbāḥ-i Yazdī / Muḥammad Taqī-i
30
Mulhall, Stephen
52, 56, 72
Mullā Ṣadrā / Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī
3, 6, 11–12, 17, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30–31, 33, 34, 37, 39, 93, 94–96, 98–105, 110, 113, 115, 130–132, 134, 143, 145–146, 149–151, 166, 168, 172, 193, 195–203
multiplicity
14, 105, 133, 167, 168, 177, 193, 196, 200
Muṭahharī, Murtiżā
7, 30, 36
mutashābihāt
147, 151, 154–156, 160, 190
mutashakhkhaṣ
196
mystical
7, 25, 30, 32–33, 37, 39, 54, 69, 94, 128–129, 135–136, 151, 164, 166, 171, 197
mysticism
19, 21, 30–31, 40, 42, 94–95, 205
nafs (soul)
160
naql (revealed / transmitted sources)
136, 171–173
natural universals
113
Necessary Being (vājib al-vujūd)
12, 14, 28, 34, 37, 82, 91, 98, 100–101, 115, 128, 134–136, 137, 139–144, 157, 163–164, 166, 169, 171, 175–176, 191–193, 195–196, 200–202, 209
negative attributes
136–137
negative theology
3, 7, 10, 11, 33, 35, 75, 128, 146, 166–167, 169, 175, 178, 192–193, 207
neo-Kantian
45–47, 49
nihāyat al-ḥikma
102, 128, 136, 195
perfection-terms
10, 63–66, 69, 74, 78, 81, 90–91, 133, 160, 174, 183
peripatetic philosophy (mashshāʾī)
17, 33, 94–95, 130
philosophical analysis
6, 8, 14, 16, 63, 90, 141, 165, 205
philosophical anthropology
99, 101, 102, 111–112, 160, 162, 206
philosophical grammar
61–63, 68, 70, 74, 83
positive theology
192
possibility of the nobler (imkān al-ashraf)
101, 130, 133, 143, 175
potentiality
23–25, 99, 100, 105–106, 161
practical mental constructs
112, 116–117, 120
primacy of being/existence (aṣālat-i vujūd)
12, 14, 101, 130, 132, 196, 198
principality
12, 14, 101, 132, 143
principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl-i fiqh)
42, 113, 116, 206
problem of religious language
2–4, 11, 14, 16, 18, 63, 133, 150, 183, 193, 206, 211, 219
proportional
10, 75–79, 159
proportionality
76, 79, 81–82
pure action
83, 85, 87, 89–90, 209
quiddity
98, 107, 113, 115, 132, 137, 199
religious experience
55, 68–70
sadrian principles
93n1, 130, 171, 175
self-evidence of existence (bidāhat-i vujūd)
130
semantics of divine names
17, 37–38, 63, 83, 90, 97, 99, 130, 136, 142, 145, 168, 172, 178
ṣifāt-i afʿāl
129, 134
ṣifāt-i jalāl
135
ṣifāt-i jamāl
135
sophism
29
speculative philosophy
160
speech (kalām)
108, 120–123, 141, 153, 154, 156, 163, 178, 181, 182
spirit of the meaning
37, 145, 148–151
substance
12, 55, 100, 103, 126, 136, 158, 161
substantial motion (al-ḥarakat al-jawhariyyah)
25, 100, 102–103, 161
ṣūrat
159
surface-grammar
8, 15, 58, 60
taʿaqqul
105–106
tashakhkhuṣ
200
tashkīk-i vujūd
132, 143, 164, 198
tauḥīd (divine unity)
64, 128, 166–167, 173, 194, 207
tauḥīd-i iṭlāqī
167, 194, 207
tauḥīd-i ṣifātī
128
tauḥīd-i ẕātī
128, 134
tautological
7, 66, 75, 83, 170–171, 193, 207–208
tautology
169–170
the way of analogy
11, 73, 75, 86, 133, 165, 208, 217
therapeutic
9, 56, 60–62
throne
150, 155, 180
transcendence of God
9, 63, 194
transcendental philosophy
47
transcendental Thomism
45–47, 53–54
transcendentals
9, 63–66, 74, 207
twelve Imāms
27
Twelver Shiʿism
27, 166
unity of being
12
unity of God
128, 166
unity of God’s actions
129
unity of God’s attributes
128
unity of God’s essence
128
unity of vujūd
14, 133, 200
univocal
67, 69, 75–76, 78–82, 91, 104, 183–184, 194, 203
univocity
10, 69, 79–81, 166, 183, 232
utilisation (one of ‘mental constructs’)
17, 36, 112, 119, 125, 137, 139, 142, 153, 155, 163
via analogia
10, 11, 17, 75–82, 86, 133, 165, 178–179, 183, 208, 219
vujūd (existence)
12, 13, 14, 18, 97–100, 104, 108, 115, 130–133, 135, 137, 139, 143, 164, 166, 169, 191–202, 208–210
vujūd-i vajibī (Necessary Being)
166, 191, 202, 209
western philosophy of religion
1
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
8, 45, 52–53, 57, 72, 74, 213, 219
Wittgensteinian Thomism
8, 15, 44