the author was born in a wealthy family in Japan. a’nd.a Zen Buddhist, ‘and with meditation and koans (sayings and by the Zens) from an early age. Japanese scholar on Islam, having taughf~ati‘fi§§j‘~§;Tniversity (1954-1968), McGill University. Philosophy/;v’Fehran (Iran). He was Professor Emeritus oi Keio University and a member of Japan Academy. lzutsuk area of study was wide, and more than thirty scholarly works in Japanese and English are attributed to him. all ol which demonstrate uniqueness of his thought through the construction of complex theonefical Complementingi this brilliance was his mastery of over twcnl} languages, including Hebrew, Persian, Chinese, Turkish, Sanskrit and Arabic. in addition to many modern European languages. In 1958, he completed translation of the and the Royal Institute of the Study oi’ Qur’an, for the first time directly from Arabic to Japanese. His other works include published in this series is God and Man in the Qur ’an, Ethico-Religious (‘()Il(‘t*pl.’ 1’/1 /ht» Qur ’an and The Concept of Belief in Islamic Theology.
CONCEPT AND REALITY OF EXISTANCE
The actual presence of things, writes Prof. lzutsu, is their existence. They are there. They do exist, as we ourselves exist. On the other hand, they are not there in the fonn of pure ‘existences‘. They ‘exist’ as various and variegated things: man, horse, stone, tree, ctc. This collection of four papers by the late Japanese scholar remains the best comparative study of the notion of existence (wujzid) in Eastern and European philosophy. First written during 1968-I970, they center around the topic of the reality and concept of existence as it has been elaborated in the post-Mongol period of lslamic philosophy. The author attempts to “uncover and recapture” the spirit of ‘irjfin, a type of metaphysics that has developed in Persia as a combination of mysticism and rational thinking. The fourth essay on metaphysics, which originally appeared as an introduction to Sliurh-1′ Mangiimah by the renowned nineteenth century Iranian philosopher Hiidi Sabzawéri, is regarded as one of the most profound studies of lslamic metaphysics of Pcrsia’s greatest philosopher. Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi.
- AUTHOR: TOCHIHIKO IZUTSU
- PUBLISHED BY IBT BOOKS
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