Toshihiko Izutsu

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Toshihiko Izutsu
井筒 俊彦
Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy

Toshihiko Izutsu (井筒 俊彦, Izutsu Toshihiko, 4 May 1914 – 7 January 1993) was a Japanese scholar who specialized in

Qurʾān into Japanese.[1]

Life and academic career

He was born on 4 May 1914

Zen Buddhist. He entered the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, but transferred to the Department of English literature wishing to be instructed by Professor Junzaburō Nishiwaki. Following his bachelor's degree, he became a research assistant
in 1937.

In 1958, he completed the first direct

Okawa Shumei). His translation is still renowned for its linguistic accuracy[8] and widely used for scholarly works. He was extremely talented in learning foreign languages, and finished reading the Quran a month after beginning to learn Arabic. Between 1969–1975, he became professor of Islamic philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). He was the professor of philosophy at the Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy, formerly Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, in Tehran, Persia. He came back to Japan from Persia after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and he wrote, seemingly more assiduously, many books and articles in Japanese on Eastern philosophy
and its significance.

In understanding Izutsu's academic legacy, there are four points to bear in mind: his relation to

comparative philosophy.[9]

In Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts (1983) he compared the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism, and asserted that, although historically unrelated, these two traditions share similar features and patterns.[9]

He died in Kamakura[1] on 7 January 1993.[7]

Notable works

Documentaries

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Toshihiko Izutsu: The Genius That Bridged East & West". Keio Times. 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2022.
  2. ISBN 978-4-7664-1430-1
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  3. doi:10.34428/00008151
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  4. ^
    ISBN 1-883991-04-8
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  5. ^ "Japanese religion expert Toshihiko Izutsu under spotlight in "The Eastern"". Tehran Times. 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018.
  6. ^ Muzaqqi (2016). "Semantic Approaches in Islamic Studies: The Review of Toshihiko Izutsu's Thought" (PDF). Pedagogik: Jurnal Pendidikan. 4 (1): 45–53.
  7. ^
    JSTOR 41719816
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  8. S2CID 148845337
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  9. ^ a b Nakamura, Kojiro (2009). "The Significance of Toshihiko Izutsu's Legacy for Comparative Religion". Intellectual Discourse. 17 (2): 147–158.

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