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Gholamreza Dadkhah is Research Scholar (Islamic philosophy), University of Tehran. Among his publications are the edition of Shams al-Dīn Samarqandī’s (d. 722/1322) Science of the Cosmos and the Soul (Mazda Publishers, 2014), and together with Asadollah Fallahi, Logic in Sixth/Twelfth Century Iran (The Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2018).Reza Pourjavady, Ph.D. (Freie Universität Berlin, 2008), is Visiting Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. His publications include Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings (Brill, 2011), and coauthored with Sabine Schmidtke, A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings (Brill, 2006).

"Die Edition mit ihrem Apparat ist sehr schön gestaltet und bietet einen guten Ansatzinpunkt, um die Maqālīd al-ʿulūm in die wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Diskussion einzubinden. Insgesamt. Insgesamt handeltes sich um eine sehr erfreuliche Ergänzung der vorhandenen Literatur zur islamischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte." Rüdiger Lohlker, in Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 111 (2021)

• English SectionAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 A Review of the Previous Scholarship 2 Patronage at the Court of Shāh Shujāʿ 3 The Structure and the Sources of the Work 4 Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm as the Model for Maqālīd al-ʿulūm 5 Some Serendipitous Knowledge of the Author 6 Maqālīd al-ʿulūm and the Taʿrīfāt: Similarities and Differences 7 The Question of the Reception of the Work 8 The Present EditionAppendix 1: Other Works in Prose Dedicated to Shāh Shujāʿ or His ViziersAppendix 2: Sources of the Maqālīd al-ʿulūmBibliographyArabic SectionTable of ContentsMaqālīd al-ʿulūmIndex of Technical Terms