Zailan Moris is a

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

n scholar of

Islamic philosophy Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—''falsafa'' (), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and p ...

and former professor of the School of Humanities at the

University Sains Malaysia Universiti Sains Malaysia ( 'University of Science Malaysia'; abbreviated as USM) is a public research university in Malaysia. Founded on 1 June 1969 as a statutory body with its own constitution, it is the oldest institute of higher learning ...

. Her main interests are

comparative religion Comparative religion is the branch of the study of religions with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices, themes and impacts (including human migration, migration) of the world's religions. In general the comparative study ...

and

Sufism Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...

Biography

Zailan Moris graduated with a bachelor's degree from the

and completed her Master's from

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...

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. She became interested in Islamic philosophy after being inspired by Iranian philosopher

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian Americans, Iranian-American academic, philosophy, philosopher, theology, theologian, and Ulama, Islamic scholar. He is University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. ...

, and received a PhD in 1994 from the

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

in Washington, DC, under his supervision. She wrote her dissertation on the philosophy of

Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (; ; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persians, Persian Twelver Shi'a, Shi'i Islamic philosophy, Islamic mystic, philosopher, Kalam, theologian, a ...

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. 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)

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External links

Official Web Page at University Sains Malaysia

Text of unpublished dissertation at American University Digital Research Archive
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