Закономерности развития Восточной философии XIII-XVI вв. (регион ислама) и проблема Запад-Восток

Кули-Заде З.

Patterns of development of Eastern philosophy of the XIII-XVI centuries. (region of Islam) and the West-East problem

The monograph examines the patterns of development of medieval Eastern philosophy of the 13th-16th centuries. and a comparative study of the patterns in the development of Western and Eastern philosophy in these centuries is carried out. The author expresses his attitude to a number of debatable issues of the chosen problem. In particular, the work includes special sections “On the Renaissance and the Eastern Renaissance”, “On social utopias”, where, based on the experience of the development of philosophy in both regions, an attempt is made to clarify the content of these concepts. The book is intended for philosophers, orientalists, as well as readers interested in the problems of medieval philosophy and culture of the East and West. The pathos of the book is that the free-thinking of the Muslim Middle Ages was not necessarily associated with philosophy based on the Hellenic and Hellenistic traditions, but that it also developed on the basis of purely autochthonous, eastern traditions. 3. A. Kulizade places emphasis on the issue of transferring to medieval Europe its “primordial” ancient heritage in favor of medieval Arab-Muslim thought, but at the same time strongly disagrees with the idea of ​​Sufism as a purely mystical doctrine, expressing exclusively the true spirit of Islam and superior to Western rationalism in its cognitive and humanistic values.