Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
Hamid al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Kirmani (
al-Hakim bi Amr Allah
(r. 996–1021).
A prominent Ismaili movement. Al-Kirmani was summoned in 1014 or shortly earlier to Cairo where he produced several works to disclaim these extremist doctrines. Al-Kirmani's writings, which were widely circulated, were to some extent successful in checking the spread of the extremist doctrines.
Works
Of his corpus of nearly thirty works, only eighteen seem to have survived. His major philosophical treatise, the Rahat al-aql (Peace of Mind), was finished in 1020.[2] In this work, Al-Kirmani intended to provide the reader an opportunity to understand how to obtain the eternal life of the mind, the paradise of reason, in a constantly changing world.
Some of his prominent works are:
- Rahat al-‘aql (Peace of Mind, or Comfort of Reason), completed in 1020 and considered his magnum opus
- Al-Aqwal al-dhahabiya, refuting al-Razi's argument against the necessity of revelation
- Kitab al-riyad, a book that propounds the early Isma'ili cosmology.
- Kitab al- masabih, an Islamic treatise on the necessity of Iamamate.[3]
References
- ^ Daftary 2003.
- ^ a b c Daftary 2001, p. 97.
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Sources
- Daftary, Farhad (2001). "Intellectual Life among the Ismailis: An Overview". In Daftary, Farhad (ed.). Intellectual Traditions in Islam. I.B.Tauris. pp. 87–111.
- ISBN 978-0-933273-71-9.
Further reading
- Paul E. Walker (1999). Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim. London.
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