Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi صدر الدین قونوی | |
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| Born | 1207 |
| Died | 1274 (aged 66–67) |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Islamic philosophy |
| School | Sufi philosophy |
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Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus Qūnawī [alternatively, Qūnavī, Qūnyawī], (Persian: صدر الدین قونوی; 1207–1274), was a Persian[1][2] philosopher, and one of the most influential thinkers in mystical or Sufi philosophy. He played a pivotal role in the study of knowledge—or epistemology, which in his context referred specifically to the theoretical elaboration of mystical/intellectual insight. He combined a highly original mystic-thinker, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn 'Arabī[3] (1165-1240 CE/560-638 AH), whose arcane teachings Qūnavī codified and helped incorporate into the burgeoning pre-Ottoman intellectual tradition, on the one hand, with the logical/philosophical innovations of Ibn Sīnā (Lat., Avicenna), on the other.[4] Though relatively unfamiliar to Westerners, the spiritual and systematic character of Qūnawī's approach to reasoning, in the broadest sense of the term, has found fertile soil in modern-day Turkey, North Africa and Iran not to mention India, China, the Balkans and elsewhere over the centuries.
- ^ F. E. Peters, "The Monotheists", Published by Princeton University Press, 2005. pg 330: "Al-Qunawi was a Persian Sufi.."
- ^ pg xvii: "Qunawi, a Persian had a profoundly different intellectual makeup"
- ^ Chittick, William C. (1989). The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-ʻArabi's Metaphysics of Imagination. New York: SUNY Press.
- ^ Shaker, Anthony F. (9 November 2012). Thinking in the Language of Reality: Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnavī (1207-74 CE) and the Mystical Philosophy of Reason. Lac-des-Iles: Xlibris Corporation (published 2012). ISBN 9781479718030. Print on demand accessdate=19 Jan 2018