The Development of Metaphysics in Persia A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy

With the Arab conquest of Persia, a new era begins in the history of Persian thought. But the warlike sons of sandy Arabia whose swords terminated, at Nahāwand, the political in...

To Zoroaster--the ancient sage of Iran--must always be assigned the first place in the intellectual history of Iranian Aryans who, wearied of constant roaming, settled down to a...

Sec: I. The origin and Quranic justification of Ṣūfīism 96 Sec: II. Aspects of Ṣūfī Metaphysics 111 A. Reality as Self-conscious Will 112 B. Reality as Beauty 112 C. (1) Reality...