Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial element shaping the intellectual and practical behaviour of many thinkers in the Islamicate world and their audiences. One Western philosopher currently receiving a particularly lively reception throughout the Islamicate world is Martin Heidegger. This book explores various aspects of the reception of Heideggers thought in the Arabic, Iranian, Turkish, and South Asian intellectual context. Expert Heidegger scholars from across the Islamicate world introduce and discuss approaches to Heideggers philosophy that operationalize, recontextualize, or review it critically in the light of Islamic and Islamicate traditions. In doing so, this book imparts knowledge of the history and present situation of Heidegger's reception in the Islamicate world and suggests new pathways for the future of Heidegger Studies pathways that associate Heideggers thought with the challenges presently faced by the Islamicate world.

Kata Moser is Assistant Professor of Oriental and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Urs Gösken is Lecturer of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Zurich.

Josh Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University.

Preface: Fred Dallmayr

Introduction: Urs Gösken, Josh Hayes, Kata Moser

Part I: Lines of Reception in the Islamicate World

1. Zeynep Direk: The Receptions of Heidegger in Turkey

2. Amir Nasri: Heideggers Role in the Formation of Art Theory in Contemporary Iran

3. Nader El-Bizri: Levantine Pathways in the Reception of Heidegger

4. Sylvain Camilleri: The Eccentric Reception of Heidegger in Hanafis French Trilogy

Part II: Heidegger and Islamicate Authenticity

5. Sevinç Yasargil: Anxiety, Nothingness and Time: Abdurrahman Badawis Existentialist Interpretation of Islamic Mysticism

6. Monir Birouk: Taha Abderrahmane: Applying Heidegger as a Heuristic for Conceptual Authenticity

7. Mansooreh Khalilizand: On Nihilism and the Nihilistic Essence of European Metaphysics. Martin Heidegger and Daryush Shayegan

Part III: Heidegger and Islamicate Modes of Expression

8. Saliha Shah: The Question Concerning Poetry in Iqbal and Heidegger

9. Ahmad Ali Heydari: Heidegger, HölderlinFardid, Hafez

10. Khalid El Aref: Hospitality and Dialogue: On Fethi Meskinis Translation and Appropriation of Heidegger

Part IV: Heidegger and the Revival of Islamicate Philosophy

11. Ismail El Mossadeq: Against Heidegger-Orthodoxy in the Arab World

12. Seyed Majid Kamali: Heideggers Aristotle: A Hermeneutic Retrieval of Islamic Philosophy in Iran

Part V: Challenging the Islamicate

13. Syed Mustafa Ali: Heidegger and the Islamicate: Transversals and Reversals

Appendix: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Translations of Heideggers Works (Urs Gösken, Kata Moser, Erdal Yldz)

Bibliography

Index

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