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Taking the importance of reason, spirit and sacral elevation as the basis of reality, this book explores common themes in Islamic metaphysics and occidental phenomenology. It aims to demonstrate how these common themes can pave the way for fruitful dialogue.

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Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these rationalities.
The perennial quest to resolve the aporias of rationality is finding in contemporary science´s focus on origins, on the generative roots of reality, tantalizing hints as to how this may be accomplished. This project is enhanced by the wave of recent phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which reveals the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment. In the rays of this vision the revival of the intuitions of classical Islamic metaphysics, particularly intuition of the continuity of beingness in the gradations of life, receive fresh confirmation.

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INTRODUCTION:

REASON, SPIRIT AND THE SACRAL IN THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

SECTION ONE:

REASON, INTELLECT, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT
William C. Chittick

DIFFERENTIATION OF THE LOGOS: FROM REASON TO SACRAL SPIRIT IN THE ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFE
Daniela Verducci

ON THE HARMONY OF SPIRITUALITY AND RATIONAL WISDOM ACCORDING TO THE OPUS RASA ´il IHWAN as-SAFA
Detlev Quintern

SECTION TWO:

REASON AND SPIRIT
Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei

LOGOS DIFFERENTIATING REASON AND SPIRIT IN PHENOMENOLOGY OF ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
Kathleen Haney

SPIRITUAL PARADIGM AS ORIGIN OF THE LIFE´S CAPACITY IN THE SADRAIAN PHILOSOPHY
Hossain Kalbasi Ashtari
SECTION THREE:

REASON AND SPIRIT IN THE THOUGHT OF EDMUND HUSSERL, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, AND
A-T. TYMIENIECKA
Thomas Ryba

REASON AND SPIRIT IN AL-BIRUNI´S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
A.L. Samian

REASON AND SPIRIT
Mohammad Khajavi

SECTION FOUR:

THE DEBATE ABOUT GOD´S SIMPLICITY: REASON AND SPIRIT IN THE EIGHTH DISCUSSION OF AL-GHAZALI´S TAHAFUT AL-FALASIFA AND IBN RUSHD´S TAHAFUT AT-TAHAFUT
Ilona Kock

DIALECTICS ON REASON AND SPIRIT: RATIONAL DISCOURSES AND SPIRITUAL INSPIRATIONS
Nader El-Bizri

THE MYSTICAL POETRY OF SHIBLI
Kenneth Avery

Index of Names

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