SUNY Press, 1991. — 219 p. — (Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religion). — ISBN10: 0791403971, 13 978-0791403976. This book explores the reaction of tenth-century Arab philosopher Abu Nasr Alfarabi to the logical works of Aristotle. From numerous short treatises the author develops a systematic and comprehensive topical survey of Alfara bi's logical writings....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 485 p. ISBN: 9780521520690. Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 270 p. This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0195181433 / ISBN13: 978-0195181432. Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course he would become an important figure at court: a tutor to the caliph's son, and a central figure in the translation movement of the...
SUNY Press, 2012. — 187 p. — ISBN10: 1438437625 / ISBN13: 978-1438437620. Review “Reason Unbound is a clearly articulated work which will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of Islamic philosophy and to those interested in exploring how the Islamic and European philosophical traditions may benefit from each other.” ― Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies “Reason...
State University of New York Press, 2012. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1438437420 / ISBN13: 978-1438437422 In this innovative work, Salman H. Bashier challenges traditional views of Islamic philosophy. While Islamic thought from the crucial medieval period is often depicted as a rationalistic elaboration on Aristotelian philosophy and an attempt to reconcile it with the Muslim religion,...
Brill, 2007. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 9004155872 / ISBN13: 978-9004155879. This book examines the question whether medieval Muslim philosophers Avicenna (Arabic Ibn Sīnā 980-1037) and Averroes (Arabic Ibn Rushd 1126-1198) are determinists. With a focus on physics and metaphysics it studies their views on chance events in nature, as well as matter, in particular prime matter, and...
Dover Publications, 1967. — 216 p. — Re-print of London edition (Luzac & Co., 1903) This is a well-written and authoritative review of the history of Islamic philosophy during the middle ages. Medieval Islamic civilization at its height was a center of learning, and its philosophers were no exception. Islamic philosophers grappled with issues such as free-will, causality and...
Brill, 2002 — xlvi, 724 p. — ISBN10: 9004121021 / ISBN13: 978-9004121027 James W. Pollock M.A. (1961) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary, is Retired Librarian for Near Eastern Studies at the Indiana University Library, Bloomington. Pollock edited and recast E.E. Calverley's translation draft of the Baydawi - Isfahani Summation of Islamic Theology. A contemporary...
Brill, 2002 — xvi, 460 p. — ISBN10: 9004121021 / ISBN13: 978-9004121027 James W. Pollock M.A. (1961) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary, is Retired Librarian for Near Eastern Studies at the Indiana University Library, Bloomington. Pollock edited and recast E.E. Calverley's translation draft of the Baydawi - Isfahani Summation of Islamic Theology. A contemporary to...
Oxford University Press — 2001 — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0195139135 / ISBN13: 978-0195139136 This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. Kashani did not write for advanced students of...
London: Kegan Paul International, 1983. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0710300484; ISBN13: 9780710300485. The volume Cyclical Time and Ismaili Gnosis brings together in English translation three of Henry Corbin’s richest and most complex studies, originally presented at the Eranos conferences of 1951 and 1954 and another conference in 1956. Each of these three relatively early studies is...
Kegan Paul Iinternational (London and New York) in association with Islamic Publications for The Institute of Ismaili Studies (London), 2001. — 365 p. "History of Islamic Philosophy" by French esotericist and expert on Islamicism Henry Corbin is an account of some of the philosophical schools which have sprung up out of the traditions of the Arab peoples (composing one of the...
Oxford University Press, 1992 — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0195074238 / ISBN13: 978-0195074239 A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 715 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199917388, ISBN13: 978-0199917389. The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most...
3rd ed. — Columbia University Press, 2004. — 430 p. The first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present, this classic discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. Fakhry shows how Islamic philosophy has followed from the earliest times a distinctive line of development, which gives it the unity and...
Oneworld Publications, 2002. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 185168302X / ISBN13: 978-1851683024. A distinguished philosopher, a sophisticated scientist and a talented musician: the many achievements of the tenth-century Islamic thinker al-Farabi are carefully documented in this substantial new introduction to his life and works. Credited with introducing Neoplatonism to the Muslim world,...
Oneworld Publications Ltd — 2000 — 159 p. — ISBN: 1-85168-252-X The development of Islamic theology is rooted heavily in philosophy and mysticism, from the arrival of Greek philosophy into the Muslim world in the eighth century to the present day. In this book, Fakhry traces this evolution, from the translation of ancient Greek philosophy texts into Arabic, through the...
Princeton University Press — 1981 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0691072574 / ISBN13: 978-0691072579 Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), a Hungarian scholar, was recognized as one of the outstanding European Islamicists of his time. Presented here for the first time in a scholarly and accurate English translation are six lectures he originally had planned to deliver in America in 1906. Though the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0748620893 / ISBN13: 978-0748620890. A unique introductory guide to the rich, complex and diverse tradition of Islamic philosophy. Islamic Philosophy A-Z comprises over a hundred concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. - 272 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and...
Routledge, 2014. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 041563203X / ISBN13: 978-0415632034. What is Islamic Philosophy? offers a broad introduction to Islamic thought, from its origins to the many challenging issues facing Muslims in the contemporary world. The chapters explore early Islamic philosophy and trace its development through key themes and figures up to the twenty-first century. Topics...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 237 p. Developing in the late ninth century AD and evolving without interruption for the next four centuries, medieval Islamic philosophy was instrumental in the revival of philosophizing in Europe in the Middle Ages. Philosophers in the Islamic world were strongly influenced by Greek works and adapted some of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and...
Cambridge University Press, Second Edition (2004) — 271 p. ISBN: 0-511-03202-1 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN: 0-521-79343-2 hardback ISBN: 0-521-79757-8 paperback Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the most important philosophical traditions in the world, it has only relatively recently begun to receive attention in the non-Islamic world. This is a new edition of a...
Oneworld Publications, 1997. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1851681477 / ISBN13: 978-1851681471. Drawing on texts both ancient and modern, this book explores rational theology in Islam, from ninth and tenth century Mu'tazilism to rationalist modernist scholarship.
Brigham Young University, 2010. — 1168 p. — ISBN10: 0842527478 / ISBN13: 978-0842527477. Avicenna’s Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, TheHealing. Avicenna’s reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as...
Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1978, 346 p. This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within which all later scientific activity in the Islamic...
State University of New York Press — 2006 — 390 p. — ISBN10: 0791468003 / ISBN13: 978-0791468005 Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present offers a comprehensive overview of Islamic philosophy from the ninth century to the present day. As Seyyed Hossein Nasr attests, within this tradition, philosophizing is done in a world in which prophecy is the central reality of...
Routledge — 1992 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0415035945 / ISBN13: 978-0415035941 Examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam, from the late 9th to the early 11th century, through the thought of five of its principal thinkers, prime among them al-Farabi. This great Islamic philosopher, called 'the Second Master' after Aristotle, produced a...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tribuner & Co., Ltd., 1928 — 296 p. — no ISBN Well-documented study of the mutual influence of Arabic and Western worlds during the Middle Ages traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic cultures. A fascinating portrait of medieval Muslim thought, it illustrates commonalities with Judaic and Christian teachings as well as...
SUNY Press, 2007 — 180 p. — ISBN10: 0791466906 / ISBN13: 978-0791466902 Joshua Parens provides an introduction to the thought of Alfarabi, a tenth-century Muslim political philosopher whose writings are particularly relevant today. Parens focuses on Alfarabi's Attainment of Happiness, in which he envisions the kind of government and religion needed to fulfill Islam's ambition...
Oxford University Press, 1952. — 138 p. — ISBN: 0-8305-0024-3. This little book is the substance of a thesis prepared under the supervision of DR. S. Van den Bergh and approved by the University of Oxford for the Degree of Dr, Phil, in the 1949. A few additions have been made to it since, notably to the introduction. There is one point about the arrangement of the book which...
Brill, 2011. — 507 p. Islamic intellectual thought is at the center of this collection of articles honoring Dimitri Gutas by friends, colleagues, and former students. The essays cover three main areas: the classical heritage and Islamic culture; classical Arabic science and philosophy; and Muslim traditional sciences. They show the interconnectedness between the Islamic...
Brill — 2007 — 376 p. — ISBN10: 9004153861 / ISBN13: 978-9004153868 In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for 'ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.' There is no branch of Muslim intellectual...
Brigham Young University; Bilingual edition, 2014. — 320 p. — (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series). Mulla Sadra (ca. 1572–1640) is one of the most prominent figures of post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy and among the most important philosophers of Safavid Persia. He was a prolific writer whose work advanced the fields of intellectual and religious science in...
Pakistan Philosophical Congress, 1966. — 1010 p. A compendium of articles on the history of Muslim philosophy. Book Four: Later Centuries (From the fall of Baghdad[656/1258] TO 1111/1700) The Fall of Baghdad Fall of the 'Abbasid Caliphate by Abdul Shakoor Ahsan. (unedited) Theologico-Philosophical Thought Ibn Taimiyah by Serajul Haque. (unedited) The Sufis Jalal al-Din Rumi by...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2016. — viii, 288 p. In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh brings to light an important new source, which marks a key moment of transition in twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk ʿalā l-Ishārāt ( Investigations and Objections on the Pointers) offers major insight into the dialectic between the two...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 597 p. Can philosophy offer reasonable grounds for the existence of a God as the centre of actual faith, rather than just a theoretical Absolute? Many contemporary thinkers have concluded that no genuine religion could be based upon metaphysics. In this book, however, T. L. S. Sprigge examines sympathetically the most notable metaphysical...
Routledge — 2016 — 434 p. — ISBN13: 978-0415881609 / ISBN10: 0415881609 This valuable reference work synthesizes and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a wide readership of students and scholars, The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is unique in...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 219 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth Islamic/tenth Christian century. They developed a remarkably successful intellectual programme to sustain and support their political activities, promoting demands of Islamic doctrine together...
Edinburgh University Press; 2nd edition (June 1985) — 184 p. — ISBN10: 0852244878 / ISBN13: 978-0852244876 This is the standard general account in English of Islamic philosophy and theology. It takes the reader from the religio-political sects of the Kharijites and the Shiites through to the assimilation of Greek thought in the medieval period, and onto the early modern period....
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition — 2008 — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0521780586 / ISBN13: 978-0521780582 Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set...
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