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The Volume brings together scholars from Azerbaijan, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey to approach the new field of Eco-Imagination from various philosophical and disciplinary backgrounds. Sufism and its Micro-Macro philosophy in Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardy, Nishabouri, and Mulla Sadra are in dialogue with the Logos of Life Philosophy founded by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923 - 2014). This book provides a multi-perspective insight into the understanding of Life in Islamic Philosophies.
Philosophers, mystics, and poets from a variety of Islamic countries, schools, and worldviews are introduced and debated. Sustainable futures evolved in harmony with everything there is alive (Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka), are currently more threatened than ever. Wars, ecological destructivity, the climate crisis, and not least the crisis of the Human Being call urgently for a cross-religious, cultural, and generational understanding. Lively debates in Islam, taking place on philosophical problems for hundreds of years, often based on the same roots as in Occidental Phenomenology, e.g., Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, are still too little known in the Occident/West. The prolific and poetic arguments, introduced for the first time in an eco-imaginative horizon, do not belong to the past. This volume invites students and researchers to uncover Islamic Philosophies' potentialities for a shared sustainable future.
List of contents
1 Introduction.- PART 1 Eco-Imagination in Islamic Philosophies and Sufism.- Chapter 2 Divine Ownership and Resourcefulness as Basic View of Islamic Eco-Imagination.- Chapter 3 Eco Imagination and Sufi Phenomenology.- Chapter 4 Imagination as a Cure Against the Boredom of Science: Ibn Arabi's Path towards Self Realization.- Chapter 5 The Tree as an Absolute Phenomenological Symbol in Ibn 'Arabi 's Paradigm.- PART 2 Towards and beyond Mulla Sadr: Current debates on Eco Imagination.- Chapter 6 Aspects of Mulla Sadra's Interpretation of Platonic Ideas.- Chapter 7 The Problem of Existence in Sufism.- PART 3 Islamic Eco-Imagination in Mystics, Literature and Poetry.- Chapter 8 Recycled Imaginations, Re*source and The One According to Ikhwan Al-Safa.- Chapter 9 Review of a contemporary mystical debate on Simorgh's symbiotics.- Chapter 10 A Study of Yeats's Byzantium Poems.- PART 4 From Eco-Imagination to Sustainable Future.- Chapter 11 The Imaginatively Constituted I centre "Fana" (Annullment) for Sustainable Future in Islamic Philosophy of Bulleh Shah.- Chapter 12 Eco-Imagination Beyond the Verticalization of Life.
About the author
Detlev Quintern is a Junior Professor at the Turkish German University in Istanbul. He holds a PhD in history with a focus on the 10th-century collective of Ikhwan as-Safa from Bremen University. His research fields are universal over lacings in the history of philosophy, ideas and sciences, cultural memory, and museology of cultural heritage.
Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired in November 2018. Currently, holder of a teaching contract for an Advanced Seminar in Phenomenology at the University of Macerata (Italy). Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European and Asian Divisions) and Co-editor in Chief of both the Springer series, ANHU and IPOP. Member of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft.
