Mehdi Hairi Yazdi

Mehdi Hairi Yazdi (* 1923 in Qom ; † July 8, 1999 in Tehran ; Persian مهدی حائری یزدی) was an Iranian religious scholar and, as a philosopher, a representative of modern Islamic philosophy . Mehid Hairi Yazdi was the son of Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi , the founder of the Islamic schools of Qom.

biography

Yazdi studied and taught in the United States and Canada until 1979, a. a. as a student of William K. Frankena . As a result, he acquired a comprehensive knowledge of recent European and American philosophers, including David Hume , Immanuel Kant , Bertrand Russell , George Edward Moore , Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James . This enabled him to systematically study Islamic authors such as Avicenna , Mulla Sadra and Suhrawardi , through which he systematically reconstructed and in some cases developed their ideas. 1979 Yazdi returned to Iran. Yazdi dealt extensively with traditions of illuminationist theorists. Above all in his monograph on principles of Islamic epistemology, he develops them further, brings them into contact with contemporary questions of analytical self-confidence and epistemology, and tries to work out an independent alternative.

Yazdi was a member of the International Ethics Council of the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics at Georgetown University , one of several stations where he pursued his interest in intercultural issues in an institutional and political context. In general, Yazdi was very active politically; he was in contact with many Iranian Ayatollahs and endeavored to develop a modern Shiite political doctrine.

1979 appointed him Ruhollah Khomeini to his charge d'affaires in Washington, DC In the summer of 1980 he left this post. During this term of office, the hostage-taking of Tehran began (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981), which could be instrumentalized in favor of the Reagan cabinet . He was not accredited by the Carter Cabinet .

Works

• The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy , State University of New York Press, Albany 1992
• Hekmat especially Hokumat . Shadi Publishing 1995.
• Islam and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the yearbook of the Shiite school of thought , 4, 1341, 67-76.
• Patterns of Clerical Political Behavior in Postwar Iran, 1941-53 , Middle Eastern Studies 26/3 (1990).

literature

• Ibrahim Kalin: Knowledge as Light: Critical Remarks on M. Hairi Yazdi's Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence , in: American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences 16 (1999), 85-97 ( text on the page of Sadra Islamic Research Institute ).
• Amir Salehi: Modified Notion of Representative Knowledge by Correspondence , in: Transcendent Philosophy 7 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (2006), 165–188
• David B. Burrell: The Principle of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence by Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi , in: The Journal of Religion 74/1 (1994), 141-142
• Reza Hajatpour: Mehdi Hairi Yazdi intercultural read , Bautz, Traugott 2005, ISBN 3-88309-256-8
• Farzin Vahdat: Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity , in: Ramin Jahanbegloo (ed.): Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity , Lanham: Lexington Books 2004, 51–70.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolph: Islamic Philosophy. From the beginning to the present; Munich 2004, 110f.
2. ↑ Fakhry, Majid (2000): Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism, 2nd edition, Oxford, pp. 127–129.
3. ↑ So it was not surprising that when the Iranian embassy in Washington needed an acting ambassador immediately after the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini called on Hairi-Yazdi to take charge. Within a few weeks, however, Hairi-Yazdi found the experience frustrating and the factionalism at the embassy directed from Tehran intolerable. When he learned that government funds in New York had been withdrawn by a man of uncertain repute, he wrote Ayatollah Khomeini outlining the misdeed. As he did not receive a response to his letter, he withdrew from embassy affairs. [1] [2]

Web links

• Biography (book display of the biography published in Persian)