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Tabarzin, Thank you very much for

all the references to Professor Ziaiee's publications & his excellent , optimistic interview with Ms. Wells. 

Azarin

If you or anybody you know is going to the funeral next Saturday please contact me privately because I'd like to organize a bouquet of flowers on my own behalf since there is no way I'll be able to make it over myself; or if you know of a service that does this, please let me know who they are and how I can contact them. Thanks.

A great loss

R.I.P. professor Ziai!

This is the info I got about his memorial service: "On the occasion of the sad passing of Dr. Hossein Ziai , a funeral service will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills, on Saturday, September 3rd. The program will begin at 2:30pm with a eulogy at the Old North Church, followed by the burial. A reception will be held at the Hall of Liberty at about 4:15pm."

Interview with Huffington post in 2010

 
Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution by Kathleen Wells

از شمار دوچشم یک تن کم وز شمار خرد هزاران بیش

It is a great loss. I am so sorry.

Also

- Sadruddin Shirazi, Ta'liqat 'ala Hikmat al-Ishraq (Mulla Sadra's Glosses on Suhrawardi's Philosophy of Illumination), critical edition and introduction by Hossein Ziai, Tehran: forthcoming.

His publications

Articles

“Translations From the Dīvān-i Shams of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.” The Yale Literary Magazine, New Haven, 1965. (6 pages). (A.1)

“The Bipolar Principle in Rūmī’s Mathnawī.” In, Mevlânâ. Ankara, 1972, pp. 63-86. (A.2)

“Algorithm and Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.” Algorithm,
vol. 2,no. 1 (1979), pp. 31-57. [Includes discussion of computational
and approximation methods as major advancements in
mathematics--“Algorithm” is Latinized “al-Khwārizmī.”]. (A.4)

حقیقت و ضرورت در ریاضیات – “Truth and Necessity in Mathematics,” by Hilary Putnam, translated by Hossein Ziai. Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (BIMS), no. 9 (Winter, 1979), pp. 135-151. (A.5) PDF

“Elements of Intuitionism.” BIMS,
no. 11 (Summer, 1980). [Includes a comparison of Brouwer’s concept of
“primary intuition,” with ideas in Islamic philosophy.]. (A.6)

“Modal Propositions in Islamic Philosophy.” BIMS, no. 12 (Winter, 1980), pp. 58-74. (A.7) PDF

بحثی اجمالی پیرامون مسائل و فلسفه ریاضی - “Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics.” Algorithm,
vol. 2, no. 2 (1980). [Compares and contrast foundations of
mathematical knowledge among the three schools of the philosophy of
mathematics: Logicism, Formalism, and Intuitionism; and includes a
discussion of the realm of “formal” things in Islamic philosophy.] (A.9)
PDF

مشاهده، روش اشراق، و زبان شعر – “Vision, Illuminationist Methodology and Poetic Language.” Irān Nāmeh. Vol. VIII, no. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 81-94. (A.11) PDF

“The Manuscript of al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya, A 13th c. Philosophical Encyclopedia by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shahrazūrī.” Iranshenasi. Vol. II, no. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 89-108. (A.14) PDF

“Persian Poetry and Poetic Wisdom: Sources for Manuscript Painting Traditions.” In, Dragons Heroes and Lovers, edited by Pamela R. Miller. Seattle: Wing Luke Asian Museum, 1991, pp. 10-17. (A.16) PDF

سهروردی و سیاست: بحثی پیرامون ایین سیاسی در فلسفه اشراق – “On the Political Doctrine of Illuminationist Philosophy.” Iran Nameh. Vol. IX, no. 3 (Summer, 1991), pp. 396-410. (A.17) PDF

صدرالدین شیرازی و بیان فلسفی: حکمت متاللیه – “Explaining the Philosophical Meaning of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s ‘Metaphysical Philosophy,’ Ḥikmat-e Mota‘āliyeh.” Iranshenasi Vol. V, No. 2 (Summer, 1993), pp. 354-364. (A.21) PDF

“al-Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn,” in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition, qv, pp. 781-784. (A.30) PDF

“Dreams, Interpretation of.” In, Encyclopedia Iranica.Edited by Ehsan Yarshater, Volume VII, 5, pp.549-551. (A.31) PDF

رساله ای فارسی از سهروردی – “Edition and Translation of the Persian Text, Treatise on Substance and Accident, by Suhrawardī.” In, Papers in Honor of Seyyed Jalal Ashtiyani (Jashn-Nameh-ye Ostad Jalal-e Ashtiyani),
ed. M. Arab and K. Fani. Tehran: Farzan-e Ruz, 1998. The edition is
based on the single known extant copy, at UCLA’s Special Collections.
(A.32) PDF

“Ebn Sahlān Sāwī.” In Encyclopedia Iranica. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater, Volume VIII, pp. 52-53 (A.33) PDF

“Illuminationist Philosophy.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ten Volumes, General Editor, Edward Graig. London: Routledge, 1998. Volume 4, pp. 700-703. (A.34)

“Illuminationism,” in Encyclopedia Iranica.
Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Volume XII & XIII, New York: The
Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation, 2004, Fasc. 6 vol XII, pp.
670-672-Fasc. 1 vol. XIII, pp. 1-2. (A.43) PDF

“Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā” [Addendum], in Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[Macmillan Reference], Second Edition. Donald M. Borchert, Editor in
Chief. Volume 9, New York: Thomson Gale, 2006, pp. 315-317. (A.44) PDF

“Illuminationism,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[Macmillan Reference], Second Edition. Donald M. Borchert, Editor in
Chief. Volume 4, New York: Thomson Gale, 2006, pp. 581-585 (A. 45) PDF

“al-Talwīhāt al-Lawhīyya wa al-‘Arshiyya,” in Dāneshnāmeh-ye Jahān-e Islām [The World of Islam Encyclopedia], Gh-A. Haddad Adel, Chief Editor. Volume VIII, Tehran, 2004, pp. 137-138. (A.47) PDF

Book Reviews

ادبیات فارسی – “Review of Persian Literature, edited
by Ehsan Yarshater. Bibliotheca Persica: Columbia Lectures on Iranian
Studies, no. 3; Albany, N.Y.: The Persian Heritage Foundation, SUNY
Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 526” In Iran Nameh. Vol. VIII, no. 4 (Fall, 1990), pp. 641-650. (A.15) PDF

“Review of Shukri B. Abed, Aristotelian Logic and Arabic Language in Alfārābī. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.Pp. 201.” In, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4(Fall 1992), pp. 708-711. (A.19) PDF

“Review of: John Walbridge, The Science of Mystic Lights: Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy. (Cambridge: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XXVI: Harvard University Press, 1992). Pp. xvii, 296.” In, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 26 (Winter, 1994).(pp. 7) (A.24) PDF

“Review of Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism: Remarks and Admonitions, Shams C. Inati, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996,viii + 114 pp.” In Iranian Studies, Volume 33, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2000, pp. 203-205. (A.38) PDF

Chapters in Edited Books

بیرونی و رساله امونیوس – “Bīrūnī and Ammonius’ Treatise on the ‘Differences of Opinions Concerning Principles’.” Bīrūnī Memorial Volume. Tehran: Tehran UP, 1976, pp. 185-202. [Includes unpublished segments of Ammonius’ treatise, Ikhtilāf al-Ārā’ fi’l-Mabādī’
(the Arabic title means “Differences of Opinions Concerning
Principles,” and the Greek text is lost), edited and published for the
first time.]. (A.3) PDF

“Beyond Philosophy: Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Path to Wisdom.” In, Myth and Philosophy.
Edited by Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy. New York: State University
of New York Press, 1990. Chapter 8, pp. 215-243. (A.13) PDF

“Source and Nature of Authority: A study of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Political Doctrine.” In, The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, edited by Charles Butterworth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. 304-344. (A.18) PDF

“Definition and the Foundations of Knowledge in Illuminationist Philosophy: Section on Expository Propositions (al-Aqwāl al-Shāriḥa), of the [unpublished] Text, al-Mashāri‘ wa al-Muṭāraḥāt.” In, Papers in Honor of ‘Ostād’ Javad Mosleh. Edited by Borhan Ibneh Yousef, Los Angeles: Research & Education Center, 1993, pp. 108-130. (A.22) PDF

“Ḥāfeẓ˙, Lisān al-Ghayb of Persian Poetic Wisdom.” In Papers in Honor of Annemarie Schimmel, edited by J.C. Bürgel and Alma Giese. Bern: Verlag Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 449-469. (A.23) PDF

“Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī.” In, The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by S.H. Nasr and Oliver Leaman. London: Routledge, 1995. Ch. 28, pp. 434-464. (A.25) PDF

“The Illuminationist Tradition.” In, The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by S.H. Nasr and Oliver Leaman. London: Routledge,.1995. Ch. 29, pp. 465-496. (A.26) PDF

“Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: 17th c. Synchretism in Islamic Philosophy.” In, The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by S.H. Nasr and Oliver Leaman. London: Routledge,.1995. Ch. 35, pp. 635-642. (A.27) PDF

“Entries on Islamic Philosophy.” In, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.
Edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford and London: Oxford UP, 1995. Entries
on: “Averroës”; “Avicenna”; “al-Ghazālī”; “Ibn Khaldūn”; philosophy
“Iqbal, Allameh Muhammad”; “Islamic Philosophy”; “al-Kindī”; “Knowledge
by Presence (al-‘ilm al-Ḥuḍūrī)”; “Mollā Ṣadrā”; “Mīr Dāmād”; “Mundus Imaginalis” (‘ālam al-khayāl); and “Sohravardī.” (A.28) PDF

سهروردی و سیاست –
“Suhravardī va Siyāsat.” In, Muntakhkabī az Maqālāt-I Fārsī Dar- bāri-yi
Shaykh-I Ishrāq Suhravardī. Edited by Hossein Seeyed Arab. Tehran:
Enteshārāt Shafī‘ī, 1999, pp. 105-125. (First published in Iran Nameh. Vol. IX, no. 3 [Summer, 1991], pp. 396-410.) (A.37) PDF

“Knowledge and Authority in Shī‘ī Philosophy.” In, Shī‘ite Heritage: Essays on Classical and Modern Traditions. Eidted by Linda Clarke. Binghamton And New York: GLOBAL PUBLICATIONS, Binghamton University, 2001, pp. 359-374. (A. 39) PDF

“Nūr al-Fu’ād, A Nineteenth-Century Persian Text in Illuminationist Illuminationist Philosophy by Shihāb al-Dīn Kumījānī.” In The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. The Library of Living Philosophers Volume XXVIII.Edited
by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Randall E. Auxier, and Lucian W. Stone, Jr.Chicago
and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 2001, pp. 763-774. (A. 40) PDF

“Suhrawardī on Knowledge and the Experience of Light,” in The Experience of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience. Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, Chapter Two, pp. 25-44. (A.46) PDF

“Recent trends in Arabic and Persian philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Edited by Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, ch. 19, pp. 405-425. (A.48) PDF

“Islamic Philosophy,” in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition. Edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 447-451. (A. 49) PDF

“Causality in Mullâ Sadrâ’s Philosophical Text al-Ta’lîqât ‘alâ Sharh Hikmat al-Ishrâq.” In, Mulla Sadra & Comparative Philosophy on Causation. Edited by Seyed G. Safavi. London: Salman-Azadeh Publications, 2003 [appeared and distributed in 2006], pp. 93-106. (A.50) PDF

“Selections on the Topic ‘Causality’.” In, Mulla Sadra & Comparative Philosophy on Causation. Edited by Seyed G. Safavi. London: Salman-Azadeh Publications, 2003 [appeared and distributed in 2006]. Pp. 107-124. (A.51) PDF

“Falsafa,” in The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, edited by Tim Winters. Cambridge & London, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 55-76. (A.52) PDF

“Persian Poetic Wisdom and the Epistemology of ‘Knowledge by Presence,’” in, Science, Literature and Aesthetics, edited by Amiya Dev (New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations) Ch. 26, pp. 433-452. (A.53) PDF

Books

فلسفه ریاضی – Philosophy of Mathematics.
Edited and translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary of
Technical Terms, by Hossein Ziai. Tehran: Iranian Center For the Study
of Civilisations [sic], 1980. Pp. 216. (A.08) PDF

Anwāriyya: Early 17th century Persian commentary on Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination, by MuḤammad Sharīf al-Harawī.
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Hossein Ziai. Tehran: Amir Kabir,
1979. Pp.xxx, 261. (Second edition, Tehran: Amir Kabir, 1985. See also
below, C.28). (A.10)

Knowledge and Illumination: A Study of Suhrawardī’s Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq. Brown Judaic Studies 97; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 223. (A.12)

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shahrazūrī’s Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq, Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination. Critical edition, plus English and Persian Introductions, Notes and Indexes. Cultural Studies and Research Institute, no. 736: Tehran, 1993. Pp. xxxix, 766. (A.20)

Suhrawardī’s The Book of Radiance [Partow Nāmeh]. A
parallel English-Persian Text, Edited and Translated with an
Introduction By Hossein Ziai. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers: Bibliotheca
Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series No. 1, 1998

The Ball and Polo Stick.
A Parallel Persian-English Text, Edited and Translated with an
Introduction and Notes by W.M. Thackston, Jr. and Hossein Ziai.Costa
Mesa: Mazda Publishers: Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions
Series, No.3, 1999 (A.35)

The Philosophy of Illumination. English translation of Suhrawardī’s Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq, plus
a new critical edition of the Arabic text, with Introduction, Notes,
and Glossaries of technical terms, by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai.
Islamic Philosophy Translation Series (IPTS): Provo, Utah: Brigham Young
University Press, 2000. (A.36)

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shahrazūrī’s Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq, Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination. Critical edition, plus English and Persian Introductions, Notes and Indexes. Cultural Studies and Research Institute, no. 736: Tehran, 1993: Second Printing: 2002, Pp. xxxix, 766. (N.B. This is the second printing of A.20, listed above.) (A.41)

Ibn Kammūna’s Al-Tanqīḥāt fī Sharḥ al-Talwīḥāt. Refinement and Commentary on Suhrawardī’s Intimations: A Thirteenth Century Text on Natural Philosophy and Psychology. Critical Edition, with Introduction and Analysis by Hossein Ziai & Ahmed Alwishah. Bibliotheca Iranica:Intellectual Traditions Series No. 9: Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2002. Pp. ix, 48, 490. (A.42)

The Intellectual Tradition Series: Bibliotheca Iranica

No. 1 The Book of Radiance.
A Parallel Persian-English Text, edited and Translated with an
Introduction by Hossein Ziai, Mazda Publishers (September 1998).

No. 2 The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises:
A Parallel Persian-English Text. Edited and Translated with an
Introduction by Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., Mazda Publishers (July 1999).

No. 3 The Ball and Polo Stick:
A Parallel Persian-English Text. Edited and Translated with an
Introduction by W.M. Thackston, Jr. and Hossein Ziai, Mazda Publishers
(July 1999).

No. 4 Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Seven Essays. By Olga M. Davidson, Mazda Publishers (October 1999).

No. 5 Education, Religion, and the Discourse of Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran. By, Monica M. Ringer, Mazda Publishers (January 16, 2001).

No. 6 Nasir-e Khkusraw’s Book of Travels.
A parallel Persian-English Text, edited and translated from the
Persian, with Introduction, Glossaries, and Notes, by Wheeler M.
Thackston, Jr., Mazda Publishers (September 2001).

No. 7 Shahrestānhā’i Īrānshahr.
A Middle Persian Text on Geography, Epic, and History, with English and
New Persian Translation and Commentary. By Touraj Daryaee, Mazda
Publishers (April 2002).

No. 8 Jamālī-yi Dihlawī’s Mir‘āt al-Ma‘ānī (The Mirror of Meanings).
A parallel English-Persian text translated by A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, and
critical Persian text by N. Pourjavady, Mazda Publishers; Bilingual
edition (October 2002).

No. 9 Ibn Kammūna’s al-Tanqīḥāt fī Sharḥ al-Talwīḥāt: A Thirteenth Centuryt Text on Natural Philosophy and Psychology.
Critical Edition, with Introduction and Analysis by Hossein Ziai &
Ahmed Alwishah, Mazda Publishers; Bilingual edition (November 2002).

No. 10 The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship. By, Abolala Soudavar, Mazda Publishers (January 2003).

No. 11 Three Memories of Homayun. By, Wheeler Thackston, Jr., Mazda Publishers; Bilingual edition (March 15, 2009).

No. 12 Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings. By, Olga M. Davidson, Mazda Publishers; 2 edition (January 30, 2006).

No. 13 Addenda on The Commentary on The Philosophy of Illumination:Part One on The Rules of Thought. By, Hossein Ziai, Mazda Publishers; 2010.