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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context
1. Aristotle / Perfection in the definitions of the soul and of change -- 2. Alexander and Themistius / Attempts at reconciliation -- 3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / The neoplatonic turn to causation -- 4. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / Neoplatonic perfection and Aristotelian soul -- 5. Greek into Arabic / The Greco-Arabic translations and the early Arabic philosophers -- 6. Avicenna on perfection and the soul / The issue of separability -- 7. Essence and existence (A) / Materials from the Kalam and al-Farabi -- 8. Essence and existence (B) / Shay'iyya or Sababiyya? -- 9. Essence and existence (C) / The question of evolution -- 10. Causal self-sufficiency vs. causal productivity -- 11. Necessity and possibilty (A) / Materials from the Arabic Aristotle -- 12. Necessity and possibility (B) / Materials from al-Farabi -- 13. Necessity and possibility (C) / Materials from the Kalam -- 14. Necessity and possibility (D) / The question of evolution -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Tables of Greco-Arabic translation -- Appendix II : transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364.
Before and After Avicenna
This collection of papers addresses a variety of aspects of the life and thought of the medieval philosopher Avicenna including his reception of Classical philosophy, his views on topics such as metaphysics, psychology and medicine, and the recpeption of his thought by later authors.
The Genius of Their Age
A portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of Their Age, S. Frederick Starr brings to vibrant life an age when Muslim scientists and philosophers from Central Asia anticipated the Western renaissance of science by half a millennium.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy
This Handbook shows the links between medieval and contemporary philosophy. Topic-based essays on all areas of philosophy explore this relationship and introduce the main themes of medieval philosophy. They are preceded by the fullest chronological survey now available of the different traditions: Latin and Greek, Islamic and Jewish.
Tradition und Transformation in der Māturīdiyya des 6./12. Jahrhunderts
In this volume, Angelika Brodersen examines how elements of Māturīdite tradition and processes of transformation occur in Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī’s Kitāb al-Kifāya fī l-hidāya fī uṣūl ad-dīn, which contributed to the consolidation of the Māturīdiyya as a Sunni school. Im vorliegenden Band untersucht Angelika Brodersen, wie sich im Kitāb al-Kifāya fī l-hidāya fī uṣūl ad-dīn, des māturīditischen Gelehrten Nūr ad-Dīn aṣ-Ṣābūnī sowohl Elemente māturīditischer Tradition als auch Transformationsprozesse verfolgen lassen, die zur Konsolidierung der Māturīdiyya als sunnitische Schulrichtung beitrugen.
Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran
Muslim philosophical activities on the cusp of the Safavid era (i.e., late 9th/15th and early 10th/16th centuries) have so far escaped the attention of modern scholars. In Iran, the city of Shiraz was the principal center of philosophy at this time, and it was here that Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī (d. after 933/1526), whose life and works are the subject of this book, spent his formative years. An accomplished Shīʿī scholars, Nayrīzī engaged with Avicennan as well as Suhrawardian philosophy in his works. Beside Nayrīzī, the present study introduces his contemporaries among the philosophers of Shiraz and provides an outline of the main challenges of their thought, particularly of the two leading figures, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502) and Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Dashtakī.
Aḥmad al-Wallālī’s Commentary on al-Sanūsī’s Compendium of Logic
In the study of Lawāmiʿ al-Naẓar, Ibrahim Safri presents a history of rational sciences in the Maghribī tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He also presents a critical edition of the work, which can be considered as an introduction to post-Avicennian studies in North Africa.
The Elements of Avicennaʼs Physics
This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristo...
The Art of Jihad
Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent "realist" tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad, Malik Mufti begins by analyzing contemporary debates on jihad designed to highlight the lacuna occupied by realism in other cultures. He explicates the features of medieval Islamic realism; those it shares with realism everywhere—a focus on power, for example, or the ubiquity of human conflict—but also those features that are distinctive: its insistence on the political centrality of religion, its rejection of scientific certainty, its valorization of hierarchy, and its adherence to empire as the optimal ethico-political framework. These features are fleshed out through the writings of medieval political thinkers such as Ibn al-Muqaffa`, al-Jahiz, and the anonymous author of a seminal military manual, as well as political philosophers such as Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun. Finally, Mufti explores the prospects for a revival of Islamic realism in the context of the political and intellectual upheavals currently besetting the Middle East.
