The second issue of the second volume of the Journal of Islamic Philisophy “Ishraq” was published by “Sadra” with the assistance of Ibn Sina Foundation, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.
The issue includes three research articles: “The Role of Cosmological Metaphors in the Tales of Initiation by Šihāb al-Dīn Yahyā al-Suhrawardī” (D. Kutovykh); “Contemporary Reflections on Sadr al-Dīn Šīrāzī’s Transcendent Philosophy: Conditions and Perspectives” (A.A. Mosleh), “Ataullah Baiazitov vs Ernest Renan: Islamic Dialectical Theology Beats Orientalism” (B. Schäbler). Two reviews were also published in the issue: “’Canon of Theology’. A Review of: Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). Iscelenie. Teologija [The Cure. The Theology]. 2 vols. Moscow: ‘Sadra’ publ., 2024 (Russian Translation)” (N. Kirabaev), “A Common Avicennism. A Review of: Zarepour, M.S. Necessary Existence and Monotheism. An Avicennian Account of the Islamic Conception of Divine Unity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 70 pp.” (M. Shpakovskiy); one translation – “The Language of the Birds. Concerning the Unity of Almighty God. Part II” by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAttār Nīšābūri (introductory article, translation, historical and cultural commentary by Yulia E. Fedorova) and the article from islamic studies history by E. Frolova “Philosophical Islamic Studies at the Institute of Philosophy (60s of the 20th – 20s of the 21st century)”.
The Journal “Ishraq” has been published in a soft coverage twice a year as an official periodical since 2023. The editor-in-chief of the journal is an academician A.V. Smirnov (the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences), the commissioning editor is Vs. V. Zolotukhin (the National Research Institute “The High School of Economics”), deputy chief editors are A.A. Lukashev (the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and F.O. Nofal (the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
