The Limits of Discursive Interpretation: A Translation of Kitab i'jaz al-bayan fi tafsir Umm al-Kitab by Sadr al-Din Qunawi

Sadr al-Din Qunawi (d. 1274) is arguably the most important thinker of the generation following the main founders of medieval philosophy—al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn 'Arabi and Suhravardi—and before Mulla Sadra. Yet, almost nothing of his writings has been translated into English. In this influential work he independently explores speech (divine and human) as the unfolding relationality of knowing and being. This is the first annotated translation of his magnum opus The Limits of Discursive Int...