Zailan Moris

{{short description|Malaysian scholar of Islamic philosophy}}

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| alma_mater = University Sains Malaysia, Carleton University, The American University

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| influences = Seyyed Hossein Nasr{{cite journal|last1=Markwith|first1=Zachary|title=Review: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition|journal=Sacred Web|volume=28|issue=1|year=2010|pages=103–116 [115]|url=}}

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Zailan Moris is a Malaysian scholar of Islamic philosophySee:

  • {{cite journal|last1=Morris|first1=James W.|title=Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An Analysis of the al-Hikmah al-ʿArshiyya. By Zaila Moris|url=https://academic.oup.com/jis/article-abstract/16/3/360/796005?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|volume=16|issue=3|year=2005|pages=360–362 [360]|doi=10.1093/jis/eti155}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Wolf-Gazo|first1=Ernest|title= Sadra and German Idealist Philosophy: on the Problem of Intellectual Intuition|url=http://www.mullasadra.org/new_site/english/Paper%20Bank/Comparative%20Studies/Gazo.htm|journal=Journal of 'Aqidah & Islamic Thought, University of Malaya|volume=5|year=2005|pages=171–194}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Nasrin|first1=Nasir|title= Zailan Moris, Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An Analysis of the al-Hikmah al-Arshiyya|url=http://iqbalcyberlibrary.net/en/IRE-OCT-2004.html|journal=Iqbal Review|volume=45|issue=4|year=2004}}
  • {{cite book|last=Nakamura|first=Mitsuo|title=Expressions of Islam in Recent Southeast Asia's Politics|year=2010|publisher=State Institute for Islamic Studies Sunan Ampel in collaboration with Impulse|isbn=9786029767988|pages=75}}. and former professor of the School of Humanities at the University Sains Malaysia.See:
  • {{Cite web|url=https://radarmadura.jawapos.com/read/2018/06/19/81857/meluaskan-makna-tadarus|title=Meluaskan Makna Tadarus|last=JawaPos.com|date=2018-06-19|website=radarmadura.jawapos.com|language=id|access-date=2019-06-21}}
  • {{cite book|last=Jahanbegloo|first=Ramin|chapter=Notes|title=In Search of the Sacred : A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought|year=2010|publisher= Praeger|isbn=978-0313383243|pages=332}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96040157.html|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|first=The Library of|last=Congress|website=id.loc.gov}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Nasr|editor1-first=Seyyed Hossein|editor2-last=Leaman|editor2-first=Oliver|title=History of Islamic Philosophy|year=1964|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415259347|pages=19}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Lumbard|editor1-first= Joseph E. B|title=Islam, Fundamentalism and the Betrayal of Tradition. Essays by Western Muslim Scholars|year=2004|publisher=World Wisdom Inc|isbn=978-0941532600|pages=243}} Her main interests are Islamic philosophy, comparative religion and Sufism.* {{cite web|url=https://humanities.usm.my/index.php/philosophy-civilization/dr-zailan-moris|title=Dr. Zailan Moris|website=humanities.usm.my}}

Biography

Zailan Moris graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University Sains Malaysia and completed her Master's from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She became interested in Islamic philosophy after being inspired by Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and received a PhD in 1994 from the American University in Washington, DC, under his supervision. She wrote her dissertation on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra that has been published under the title Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of  Mulla Sadra: an analysis of the al-Hikmah al-arshiyyah. Being a devout student of Nasr, she shares many of his ideas and has discussed and commented upon different aspects of his philosophical thinking. She has helped promote the traditionalist perspective in Malaysia.{{cite journal|last1=Widiyanto|first1=Asfa|title=The reception of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's ideas within the Indonesian intellectual landscape|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311436736|journal=Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies|volume=23|issue=2|year=2016|pages=193–236 [197]}} Moris taught at the Department of Philosophy in the School of Humanities at the University Sains Malaysia until her retirement in 2017.

Works

Moris has authored and co-authored several books and scholarly articles on different aspects of Islamic philosophy. Some of her publications include:

;As author

  • Al-Ghazali's Theory of happiness : an analysis of the Kimiya-yi-sa adat (1982)
  • God and His Attributes: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine (Foundations of Islamic Doctrine) (1989)
  • The Islamisation of the Malays : a philosophical analysis of Bahr Al-Lahut : a 12th-century Islamic metaphysical manuscript (2010)
  • Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of Mulla Sadra : an analysis of the al-Hikmah al-arshiyyah (2013)

;As editor

  • Knowledge is light : essays in Islamic studies presented to Seyyed Hossein Nasr by his students in honor of his sixty-sixth birthday (1999)
  • Higher Education in the Asia Pacific: Emerging Trends in Teaching and Learning (2008)

See also

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