The Limits of Discursive Interpretation: A Translation of Kitab I'jaz Al-Bayan Fi Tafsir Umm Al-Kitab...

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Anthony F Shaker

The Limits of Discursive Interpretation

A Translation of Kitab I'jaz Al-Bayan Fi Tafsir Umm Al-Kitab by Sadr Al-Din Qunawi

Anthony F Shaker

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English

Equinox Publishing Ltd
18 September 2024

Philosophy of religion; History of religion; Islam; Sufism & Islamic mysticism

Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Sadr al-Din Qunawi (d. 1274) is arguably the most important thinker of the generation following the main founders of medieval philosophy--al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn 'Arabi and Suhravardi--and before Mulla Sadra. Yet, almost nothing of his writings has been translated into English. In this influential work he independently explores speech (divine and human) as the unfolding relationality of knowing and being. This is the first annotated translation of his magnum opus The Limits of Discursive Interpretation. The Translator's introduction and notes shed a detailed light on the linguistic sources of Qunawi's lexicon. The Introduction also summarizes the key ideas of the book and explains their significance to philosophy. In Part One Qunawi begins by arguing that the failure of theoretical proofs to establish the reality of a thing does not itself disprove that reality. He elucidates the canons of thinking in relation to 'tasting' (experience) and the question of the 'realities of things' where knowing and being unfold dynamically from their 'root' in divine hiddenness and manifestation. He goes on to detail the concepts and the rules of relational subordination that govern these realities according to rootedness and mutual distinctions. Many of these tools are derived from linguistics, which the translator brings to bear on Qunawi's work for the first time. They enable him to transform the narrow sense in which Ibn Sina declared man incapable of grasping the realities of things. In the end, according to Qunawi, without a proper understanding of rootedness as the source of the realities' mutual distinctions, thinking remains relational, unequal to the thinking subject's goal of self-realization and incapable of fully rendering the real (not to be confused with empirical facticity) without folding back on itself. In Part Two he details the semiology by which, not only the contents of the Qur'an but, primarily the ontological dimensions of God's speech are disclosed as the veiling and unveiling, exteriorization and interiorization of being.

Translated by: Anthony F Shaker
Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9781800504165
ISBN 10: 1800504160
Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Pages: 558
Publication Date: 18 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Translators Introduction The Limits of Discursive Interpretation Glossary

Anthony F. Shaker holds a PhD from McGill University. He is the author of Modernity, Civilization and the Return to History (Vernon Press, 2017), Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization (Vernon Press, 2020) and Thinking in the Language of Reality (Xlibris, 2012, rev. 2015).