tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3144085099410879413.post9209343253270286090..comments2023-10-30T03:22:24.967-07:00Comments on Hikmat: Disseminating Ibn ʿArabī: the Role of QūnawīMulla Sadrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15449567584480729082noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3144085099410879413.post-33289013790856520092014-04-10T08:13:37.678-07:002014-04-10T08:13:37.678-07:00I'll email you. Thanks for the comment - I wil...I'll email you. Thanks for the comment - I will revisit this once I get the new published version. Mulla Sadrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15449567584480729082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3144085099410879413.post-26969342292626138132014-03-21T11:58:05.131-07:002014-03-21T11:58:05.131-07:00Dear MS,
Thank you for your comments on my book, ...Dear MS,<br /><br />Thank you for your comments on my book, Thinking in the Language of Reality.<br /><br />I hope we could correspond through some other means, if possible. However, I don't even have your name!<br /><br />You have tried to render the gist of my analysis. I have three quick reactions to your otherwise interesting commentary, if I may.<br /><br />One, German Idealism was totally irrelevant to my analysis of Qunawi. I used nothing from that tradition. Also, I limited all my mentions of Heidegger (whom I view as separate from what we know of "phenomenology") to the introduction, and then only on the question of language. I do find more than just a few points of shared interest between Islamic philosophy and early modern German philosophy and Heidegger, due chiefly to German philosophy's proximity to Scholasticism. Scholasticism, though has always been a nascent tradition that never quite "got off the ground." Heidegger completed their "thoughts" in surprising ways that seem to parallel Islamic thought's general drift. But I never mix the two, and I consider them together only to speak about modern problems of philosophy or other fields.<br /><br />Two,I never claimed that Qunawi thought skepticism led to a higher wisdom. I compared some of his preliminary arguments to skepticism on my own; Qunawi had no part in this. Moreover, he used arguments similar to classical skepticism for specific purposes. He takes them up strictly as exercises in logic, to be discarded for more substantial philosophical positions.<br /><br />Perhaps you would be kind enough to send me your e-mail address. Mine is afshaker@aol.com<br /><br />And please do sign your name!<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Anthony F. Shaker<br />Visiting Scholar, Islamic Institute of Islamic Studies<br />McGill University<br /><br />Third,I do not interpret Qunawi according to Suhrawardi or even the Ishraqi school in general. These are topics best left for other kinds of works.<br />Anthony F. Shakernoreply@blogger.com