Toshihiko Izutsu

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Toshihiko Izutsu was a Japanese Islamicist and comparative philosopher best known for his pioneering semantic studies of the Qur’an and his influential work on Sufism and Islamic mysticism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic studies scholar
Islamicist
comparative philosopher
human
philosopher
burialPlace Kamakura
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1914-05-04
dateOfDeath 1993-01-07
educatedAt Keio University NERFINISHED
employer Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy
Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University
Keio University NERFINISHED
McGill University
fieldOfWork Islamic mysticism
Islamic studies
Qur’anic studies
Sufism
comparative philosophy
comparative religion
linguistics
semantics
gender male
influenced comparative philosophers of religion
scholars of Qur’anic semantics
scholars of Sufism
influencedBy Ibn Arabi
Islamic philosophy
Sufi metaphysics
Taoism
Zen
surface form: Zen Buddhism
knownFor comparative studies of Islamic and Eastern philosophies
semantic studies of the Qur’an
studies of Islamic mysticism
studies of Sufism
languagesSpokenWritten Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Japanese
Latin
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Russian
Sanskrit
mainInterest Islamic mysticism
Qur’anic semantics
Sufi metaphysics
comparative mysticism
comparative philosophy of religion
name Toshihiko Izutsu self-link
nationality Japanese
nativeName 井筒俊彦
notableWork A Comparative Study of the Key Philosophical Concepts in Sufism and Taoism
Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an
God and Man in the Qur’an
Sufism and Taoism
The Concept of Belief in Islamic Theology
The Structure of the Ethical Terms in the Koran
placeOfBirth Japan
Tokyo
placeOfDeath Japan
Kamakura
Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED
positionHeld professor
religion Buddhism
workLocation Montreal
Tehran
Tokyo

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Asahi Prize notableRecipient Toshihiko Izutsu
Toshihiko Izutsu name Toshihiko Izutsu self-link