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The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afżal al-Dīn Kāshānī, William C. Chittick, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-513913-5, xiii + 360 pp. (including notes and indices of Koranic verses, terms, and names), £45 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Sajjad Rizvi
Sajjad Rizvi*
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Bristol University
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Iranian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 111 - 113
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References

1. This observation is most forcefully and eloquently made for ancient philosophy in Hadot's, Pierre Philosophy as a Way of Life (Oxford, 1995)Google Scholar, and idem What is Ancient Philosophy? (Cambridge, MA., 2002).

2. Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, 58Google Scholar.

3. Chittick borrows this notion from the work of Merlan, Philip Monopsychism, Mysticism, Metaconsciousness: Problems of the Soul in the Neoaristotelian and Neoplatonic Tradition (The Hague, 1963), 20-21CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. Chittick, has already written two works that focus on this idea: Faith and Practice of Islam, (Albany, NY, 1994)Google Scholar and, with his wife Murata, Sachiko The Vision of Islam (London, 1997)Google Scholar.