DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-H038-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 19, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/al-dawani-jalal-al-din-1426-1502/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Article Summary
Jalal al-Din al-Dawani was a prominent philosopher and theologian from Shiraz, who came to the note of Western scholars through an English translation of his ethical treatise the Akhlaq-e Jalali (Jalalean Ethics), published in 1839. Although the larger part of his work written in Arabic has been little studied, he did write extensively and engaged in a famous and lengthy philosophical dispute with another leading philosopher, Sadr al-Din al-Dashtaki. His metaphysical views were quoted, and refuted, by Mulla Sadra. He emerges as a thinker who combined elements of illuminationist and Peripatetic philosophy (and possibly also interests in Ibn al-‘Arabi) to confront theological, ethical, political and mystical concerns.
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Cooper, John. al-Dawani, Jalal al-Din (1426–1502), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-H038-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/al-dawani-jalal-al-din-1426-1502/v-1.
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