Zailan Moris

Zailan Moris is a Malaysian scholar of Islamic philosophy[1] and a former professor of the School of Humanities at the University Sains Malaysia.[2] Her main interests are Islamic philosophy, comparative religion and Sufism.[3]

Zailan Moris
Moris (white scarf in the middle) in 2015 with her students at Universiti Sains Malaysia
Born
Zailan Moris
NationalityMalaysian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity Sains Malaysia, Carleton University, The American University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity Sains Malaysia
Notable worksRevelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of Mulla Sadra : an analysis of the al-Hikmah al-arshiyyah (2013)

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. Inspired by the Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr, she turned to the world of Islamic philosophy and obtained a PhD under his supervision from the American University, Washington DC in 1994. 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.[4] 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)

References
  1. See:
  2. See:
    • JawaPos.com (2018-06-19). "Meluaskan Makna Tadarus". radarmadura.jawapos.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2019-06-21.
    • Jahanbegloo, Ramin (2010). "Notes". In Search of the Sacred : A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought. Praeger. p. 332. ISBN 978-0313383243.
    • Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
    • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Leaman, Oliver, eds. (1964). History of Islamic Philosophy. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 978-0415259347.
    • Lumbard, Joseph E. B, ed. (2004). Islam, Fundamentalism and the Betrayal of Tradition. Essays by Western Muslim Scholars. World Wisdom Inc. p. 243. ISBN 978-0941532600.
  4. Widiyanto, Asfa (2016). "The reception of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's ideas within the Indonesian intellectual landscape". Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies. 23 (2): 193–236 [197].
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