Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani

Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani

Hamid al–Din Abu’l–Hasan Ahmad b. ‘Abdallah al–Kirmani (996–1021 CE) was a Persian Isma'ili scholar who served as a "da'i", theologian and philosopher under the Fatimid caliph-imam al-Hakim bi Amr Allah. He was called upon to refute the dissident "da'i"s, who by proclaiming al-Hakim's divinity had initiated the Druze movement. 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.

Further reading

*cite book | author= Paul E. Walker | year = 1999 | title = Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim | location = London
* cite book | author= Daniel De Smet | year = 1995 | title = La Quiétude de l’intellect: Néoplatonisme et gnose ismaélienne dans l’oeuvre de Hamid ad-Din al-Kirmani | location = Louvain

External links

* [http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kirmani.htm Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani] at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


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