The Forgotten “Preface” to Seyr-e Ḥekmat dar Urūpā: A Reprint of a Text by Muhammad-Ali Furughi
Document Type : pajoohesh
Author
10.22081/jap.2025.77760
Abstract
This article offers a critically edited presentation of the long-forgotten preface to Seyr-e Ḥekmat dar Urūpā (The Course of Wisdom in Europe), with a central claim developed through textual analysis and historical contextualization. The argument is that this work is not merely a historical account of Western philosophy, but also proposes a new linguistic model for articulating philosophical discourse in modern Persian. Furūghī’s Seyr-e Ḥekmat advances a mode of expression that allows for the articulation of philosophical novelty and discontinuity while maintaining continuity with classical Persian philosophical language. Furthermore, the marginalization of the preface is shown to be partly a consequence of the complex and evolving editorial history of Seyr-e Ḥekmat, a trajectory that is traced here using relevant historical documentation.
Keywords
)