Biography:Enshaallah Rahmati

Short description: Iranian philosopher (born 1963)

Enshaallah Rahmati
Born	1966 (age 57–58) Malayer, Iran
Alma mater	Islamic Azad University (Ph.D.), University of Tehran (B.A. and M.A.)
Region	Islamic philosophy
Doctoral advisor	Gholamreza Aavani
Main interests	Islamic philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Traditionalist School (perennialism)

Enshaallah Rahmati (Persian: انشاءالله رحمتی‎; born 1966) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and a full professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University in Tehran.

Biography

Born in 1966 in Malayer in Iran, Rahmati graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1990 from the University of Tehran and He received a master's degree in philosophy from the same university in 1996. He acquired his PhD in 2001 from Islamic Azad University under the supervision of Gholamreza Aavani.

Career

Full Professor of Islamic Azad University-Central Tehran branch; Department for Islamic Philosophy. For over two decades he has been teaching "Themes of analytical philosophy of religion" at the postgraduate and doctoral levels. A translation of Taliafrro's book "The Philosophy of Religion" is one of his achievements in this field.

Bibliography

• S.H. Nasr (Chief Editor), The Study Quran, translation, introduction, and glosses, in 4 volumes.
• Henry Corbin, En Islam Iranian, Aspects spirituels et philosophiques, in 4 Volumes, translation, introduction, and glosses.
• Henry Corbin, Temple and Contemplation, translation, introduction, and glosses.
• Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in Ibn Arabi's Sufism, translation, introduction, and glosses
• Henry Corbin, Corpus spiritual et terre celeste, translation, introduction, and glosses.
• Henry Corbin, Cyclical Time and Ismail Gnosis, translation, introduction and glosses.
• Henry Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recitals, translation, introduction, and glosses.
• Martin Heidegger, Introduction to the Metaphysics, translation.
• Rudolf Otto, Mysticism East and West, translation and introduction.
• Immanuel Kant, the Critique of Practical Reason, translation.
• S.H. Nasr, Knowledge and The Sacred, translation.
• S.H. Nasr, Religion and The Order of Nature, translation.
• S.H. Nasr, Ideals and Realities of Islam, translation.
• S.H. Nasr, The Garden of Truth, translation and introduction.
• S.H. Nasr, Islam and the Plight of Modern Man, translation.
• William Cittick, Divine love, translation.
• Charles Taliaferro, The Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, translation.
• Alasdair McIntyre, A Short History of Ethics, translation.
• William Frankena, Ethics, translation.
• Alen R. White, The Methods of Metaphysics, translation.
• David Ferguson, Rudolf Bultmann, translation.
• Mohamad Reza Mozaffar, Al-Manteq, translation from Arabic.
• Kimiae Kherad.
• Honar va Maanaviat (Art and Spirituality).
• P. Edwards and D. Borchert (Chief Editors), Encyclopedia of Ethics, translation and introduction.
• P. Edwards and D. Borchert (Chief Editors), Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, translation and introduction.
• P. Edwards and D. Borchert (Chief Editors), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, translation and introduction.

Articles

• “Celestial Souls in Ibn-Sina's Cosmology and Their Similarity with Human Souls”, in Philosophy-Theological Research (The Quarterly Journal of Qom University), No.42
• “The Position of Shia Spirituality in the Dialogue between Islam and Christianity in Henry Corbin's Thought”, in Philosophy-Theological Research (The Quarterly Journal of Qom University), No.71
• “Immortality of the Soul: A Reflection on Plato's Phaedo”, in Philosophy Theological Research (The Quarterly Journal of Qom University), No.28
• “Omniscience and Divine Co-eternality”, in Philosophy of Religion Research (Imam Sadiq University), No.28
• "The Apriori in Otto’s Notion of Religion and Mysticism”, in Philosophy of Religion Research (Imam Sadiq University), No.31
• “Divine Will and Autonomy of Ethics”, in Journal of Religious Thought (Shiraz University), No.17
• “Quranic Christology and Monotheistic Spirituality”, in Quran va Hadith, No.14
• “Negative Theology in Qadi Said Qummi”, in Kheradname ye Sadra, No.86
• “Collision of Omniscience, and Human and Divine Freedom”, in Bi-annual Journal of The Epistemological Research (Islamic Azad University), Vol.3, No.8
• “Epistemology of Prophetic Theosophy in Avicenna's Metaphysics”, in The Epistemological Research (Islamic Azad University), No.11
• The Ontological Argument, With a View to The Islamic Philosophy, in Borhan wa Erfan (Islamic Azad University), No.8
• “Pascal on Faith and Rationality”, in Borhan wa Erfan (Islamic Azad University), No.9,10
• “Millenarianism in Ancient Iranian Religions and Ikhavan al-Safa’s theory of Prophetic Cycles: A Comparative Study”, in Biannual Journal of Religious Studies (Islamic Azad University), Vol.6, No.12
• “Traditional Art and Secular Art from The Viewpoint of Frithjof Schuon”, in Pazhouhesh Nameh-e Farhangestan-e Honar (Research Journal of the Iranian Academy of Arts), Vol.3, No.15
• “The Eight Climate”, in The Mirror of Wisdom (Islamic Azad University)
• “The Permanent Hermeneutics and the Necessity for a Living Imam”, in Safine (The Quarterly Specialized Studies on the Quran and Hadith), Vol.4, No.14
• “Determinism and Free Will”, in Biography & Academic Life of Dr. Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani (Society for the Apprehension of Cultural Works and Dignitaries)
• “The Function of Imagination in the Explanation of Spiritual Reality”, in the Processing of the second Conference on Artistic Imagination, No.14

Awards and honors

• He was nominated as the "Translator of the Year" by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance.
• His translation of the books entitled: "Avicenna and the Visionary Recital", "Iranian Islam", "Encyclopedia of Ethics, Temple and Contemplation” and “Knowledge and the Sacred” became the best-known philosophical book of I. R. of Iran in various years.