Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians

Giovanni Mandolino, Ph.D. (2020), University of Padua, is a researcher at that same university. He has published editions and translations of Medieval texts, as well as several articles on Eastern Christian tradition and Arabic philosophy.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Interpreting Early Arabic Christian TheologyPart 1 1 State of the Research1.1 The life of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī1.2 Studies on Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī1.3 Previous Scholarship on the Treatise on Divine Unity2 An Analysis of the Contents of the Treatise on Divine Unity2.1 Title, Authenticity and Date2.2 Topic and Purpose of the Treatise2.3 The pars destruens: the Refuted Doctrines2.4 The pars construens2.5 The First Appendix, on the Public of the Treatise2.6 The Second Appendix, concerning a Doubt and Its Solution2.7 Overall Remarks: Philosophical Method and Theology3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī’s Critique of the Philosophical Conception of the First Principle3.1 The Unity of the First Principle in al-Kindī’s On First Philosophy and Its Reprise in Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī3.2 The Second Appendix of the Treatise in the Light of the Theory of the Three States of Existence3.3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and al-Fārābī on Divine UnityFinal RemarksPart 2 Manuscript Transmission and Editions of the Treatise on Divine UnityYaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the ChristiansArabic TextEnglish TranslationCommentaryBibliographyIndex