Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (830–908/1427–1502), known as al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawānī, is one of the main representatives of the philosophical school of Shiraz, which flourished at the eve of the Safavid period in the tenth-eleventh/sixteenth-seventeenth centuries Iran. He was closely associated with contemporary courts, and the Turkmen rulers of Shiraz especially showed him great respect. Partly because of the political upheaval associated with the rise of the Safavids, he travelled throughout various cities in Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. His religious affiliation has been the subject of many debates, but it can finally be assumed that he was a Sunni Ash‘arite and moved to Twelver Shī‘ism in the last part of his life, coincidently with the advent of the Safavid realm (in 906/1501) and the conversion of the state of Iran to Shī‘ism. Some 70 of his works, in both Arabic and Persian, have survived, on theology (kalām), metaphysics, and ethics. Al-Dawānī remains as an influential thinker in both Sunni...
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Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Risāla fī Īmān Fir‘ūn qabla al-gharq. Unedited (See al-Ṭihrānī 1983, Vol. 10, p. 191).
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Risāla fī Taḥqīq ma‘nā al-insān. Unedited (Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-i dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Vol. 16, p. 134).
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Risāla fī Ta‘rīf ‘ilm al-kalām. Unedited (See al-Ṭihrānī 1983, Vol. 11, p. 151).
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Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Sharḥ al-‘Aqā’id al-‘aḍudiyya. Unedited. The work is a commentary on ‘Aḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī’s ‘Aqā’id.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Sharḥ Khuṭbat al-Zawrā. In Sab‘a rasā’il (ed.: Sayyid Aḥmad Tūysirkānī, pp. 185–197).
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Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Sharḥ Rubā‘iyyāt falsafī ‘irfānī-yi ‘Allāmah Dawānī (ed.: Mahdī Dahbashī). Tehran: Nashr-i Hirmis, 1387 Sh./2008–09.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī. Sharḥ Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa l-kalām, a commentary on Sa‘d al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī’s (d. 792/1390) textbook on logic and theology. Unedited.
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Terrier, M. (2020). al-Dawānī, Jalāl al-Dīn. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_589-1
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