Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies – serie
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Making of the Avicennan Tradition
The Transmission, Contents, and Structure of Ibn Sīnā's al-Mubāḥaṭāt (The Discussions)
Inbunden, 2002
3517 kr
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Presenting a detailed analysis of the manuscripts, contents, structure and historical transmission of The Discussions, this volume is a collection of correspondence written by eleventh-century philosoher Avicenna, his students and colleagues.The first chapter contains a study of the extant …
Neo-Muʿtazilismus?
Intention und Kontext im modernen arabischen Umgang mit dem rationalistischen Erbe des Islam
Inbunden, 2007
4756 kr
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This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Muʿtazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Muʿtazilism" and by concentrating on the various intentions and contexts of the use of Muʿtazilite ideas.The main part of the book analyzes five ways of understanding Mu'tazilite …
Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes
Inbunden, 2007
2260 kr
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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 …
Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
Av Jon Hoover
Inbunden, 2007
2515 kr
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The Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is famous for polemic against Islamic philosophy, theology and rationalizing mysticism, but his positive theological contribution has not been well understood. This comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy helps to rectify this lack. Exposition and …
Das Transzendentale bei Ibn Sīnā
Zur Metaphysik als Wissenschaft erster Begriffs- und Urteilsprinzipien
Inbunden, 2009
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Following al-Fārābī’s approach, Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) undertakes a new foundation of the First Philosophy based on his own critical systematisation of the Aristotelian theory of science, yielding the result that metaphysics is only possible as a transcendental science, i.e. that not only the …
Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900
Inbunden, 2010
2857 kr
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Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and …
Prophetic Niche in the Virtuous City
The Concept of Hikmah in Early Islamic Thought
Av Hikmet Yaman
Inbunden, 2011
2909 kr
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This book analyzes the concept of ḥikmah in early Islamic texts within a network of multiple conceptual interrelationships in the cross-disciplinary context of Muslim works, roughly up to al-Ghazali's lifetime. The word ḥikmah has a wide spectrum of connotations in these texts, because it basically …
Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran
Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings
Inbunden, 2011
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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 …
Method, Structure, and Development in al-Fārābī’s Cosmology
Av Damien Janos
Inbunden, 2012
3730 kr
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Winner of the 21st World Book Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014This study—the first monograph devoted exclusively to al-Fārābī’s cosmology—provides a new interpretation of this thinker’s philosophical development through an analysis of the Greek and Arabic sources and a contextualization …
Kausalität in der Mu'tazilitischen Kosmologie
Das Kitāb al-Mu'aththirāt wa-miftāḥ al-muškilāt des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 584/1188)
Av Jan Thiele
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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The importance of Zaydī sources for historical research on Muʿtazilī theology is generally acknowledged since the spectacular discoveries of unique manuscripts in Yemen in the 1950s. Yet the knowledge transfer and adoption of Muʿtazilī thought by the Yemeni Zaydiyya still remain an understudied …
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī’s Philosophical Journey
From Aristotle’s Metaphysics to the ‘Metaphysical Science’
Inbunden, 2013
3534 kr
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Although the philosopher ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī (1162 -1231) received an extensive education in the thought of Avicenna, he still journeyed long in search of true philosophy. It was in Cairo that he finally discovered a model of philosophical metaphysics rooted in Greek thought as set out in …
Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya
Die naturphilosophischen Überlegungen des al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ
Av Jan Thiele
Inbunden, 2013
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Al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (d. 1188 C.E.) was one of the most prominent representatives of the emerging reception of Basran Muʿtazilism in 12th century Yemen. He composed highly sophisticated works on ontology, causality and the specific theory of attributes that has become known as the theory of “states” …
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition
Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works
Inbunden, 2014
3639 kr
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Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with …
Theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931)
Inbunden, 2016
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This is the first comprehensive monograph on the theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Kaʿbī al-Balkhī (d. 319/931), a leading Muʿtazilī who flourished at the end of the Baghdādī school and at the beginning of the scholastic phase of Muʿtazilī history. The study of al-Kaʿbī’s theology has been hindered by …
Sufi Doctrine of Man
Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's Metaphysical Anthropology
Av Richard Todd
Inbunden, 2014
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In The Sufi Doctrine of Man, Richard Todd examines the life and thought of Ibn 'Arabī's chief disciple, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (13th century C.E.). Making use of manuscript sources, he analyzes and contextualizes Qūnawī's esoteric vision of the nature and purpose of human existence, a doctrine which …
Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation
Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, on Psychology and Metaphysics
Inbunden, 2014
2114 kr
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In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros …
Alexandrian Summaries of Galen’s On Critical Days
Editions and Translations of the Two Versions of the Jawāmiʿ, with an Introduction and Notes
Av Gerrit Bos, Y. Tzvi Langermann
Inbunden, 2014
2130 kr
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Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also revised Galenic teachings. Several versions of these summaries exist, and their …
Arabic Version of Ṭūsī's Nasirean Ethics
With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes
Av Joep Lameer
Inbunden, 2015
3117 kr
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Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s (d. 672/1274) Nasirean Ethics is the single most important work on philosophical ethics in the history of Islam. Translated from the original Persian into Arabic in 713/1313, the present text was primarily intended for the Arabic-speaking majority of the people in Iraq. A fine …
Islam and Rationality
The Impact of al-Ghazālī. Papers collected on his 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2
Inbunden, 2015
2846 kr
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Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential thinkers of Islam. There is hardly a genre of Islamic literature where he is not regarded as a major authority. Islamic Law, Sufism, ethics, philosophy, and theology are all deeply shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of …
Le Cercle des lettres de l’alphabet Dā’irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya
Un traité pratique de magie des lettres attribué à Hermès
Av Cécile Bonmariage, Sébastien Moureau
Inbunden, 2016
2081 kr
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Le Kitāb dā’irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya est un traité de magie pratique attribué à Hermès. Ce texte composite, qui ne peut être daté avec précision, est un ouvrage de magie basée sur la doctrine de la science des lettres (‘ilm al-ḥurūf). Le présent livre offre la première édition critique du texte, …
Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin
Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī
Inbunden, 2017
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Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandīs (st. 619/1222) Buch der Nahrungsmittel und Getränke (Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba) ist ein umfassendes medizinisches Lexikon mit Informationen zu über 500 verschiedenen Nahrungsmitteln, Speisen, Getränken und Duftstoffen. Es kann als letzte große arabische Monografie zur …
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud
Inbunden, 2018
2217 kr
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Cet ouvrage traite des interactions entre l’Ayurveda et la culture médicale persane en Asie du sud. Il présente, pour la première fois, une étude du mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. L’image de la culture ayurvédique qui émerge à …
ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ on Apparent Death
The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, Arabic Edition and English Translation with a Hebrew Supplement by Gerrit Bos
Av Oliver Kahl
Inbunden, 2018
2298 kr
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The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, the Book on the Prohibition to Bury the Living, written by the Nestorian physician ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ (d. c. 1060 CE), deals with the causes, signs and treatments of apparent death. Based on a short pseudo-Galenic treatise, whose Greek original is lost, …
Le plaisir, le bonheur, et l’acquisition des vertus: Édition du Livre X du Commentaire moyen d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque d’Aristote
Accompagnée d’une traduction française annotée, et précédée de deux études sur le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque
Inbunden, 2018
2009 kr
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This volume contains the first edition of the Latin version of the Middle Commentary of Averroes on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book X, the original arabic version being lost. It is accompanied by an annotated French translation. The volume also contains a full study of the manuscript tradition …
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql
Inbunden, 2019
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In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers the first comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation). In his colossal riposte to the Muslim philosophers and rationalist …
Keys to the Sciences
(Maqālīd al-ʿulūm) A Gift for the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ on the Definitions of Technical Terms
Av Gholamreza Dadkhah, Reza Pourjavady
Inbunden, 2020
1992 kr
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Maqālīd al-ʿulūm (Keys to the Sciences) is a significant source on definitions of Arabic scientific terms in the post-classical period. Composed by an anonymous author, it contains over eighteen hundred definitions in the realm of twenty-one religious, literary, and rational sciences. The work was …
La Summa Alexandrinorum
Abrégé arabo-latin de l’Éthique à Nicomaque d’Aristote. Édition critique, traduction française et introduction
Inbunden, 2020
2348 kr
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This volume contains the first critical edition of the Summa Alexandrinorum, that is the medieval Latin translation made in 1243 by Hermann the German of an Arabic abridgment of the Nicomachean Ethics known as the Iḫtiṣār al-Iskandarānīyīn. It is accompanied by a French translation. The volume also …
Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God
Inbunden, 2024
2272 kr
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In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God (orig. published in German, 2019), Farid Suleiman pieces together, on the basis of statements scattered unsystematically over numerous individual treatises, an overall picture of the methodological foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrine of the divine …
Aḥmad al-Wallālī’s Commentary on al-Sanūsī’s Compendium of Logic
A Study and Edition of Lawāmiʿ al-Naẓar fī Taḥqīq Maʿānī al-Mukhtaṣar
Av Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Wallālī, Ibrahim Safri
Inbunden, 2022
2387 kr
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Lawāmiʿ al-Naẓar fī Taḥqīq Maʿānī al-Mukhtaṣar is Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Wallālī's (d. 1128/1716) commentary on al-Sanūsī's (d. 895/1490) compendium of logic, al-Mukhtaṣar. Al-Wallālī was the first commentator on al-Sanūsī's compendium after the author's autocommentary. In this publication, Ibrahim …
Commentary on the Jumal on Logic by Khūnajī
Av Ibn Wāṣil al-Ḥamawī, Khaled El-Rouayheb
Inbunden, 2022
1966 kr
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Ibn Wāṣil (d. 1298), perhaps better known today as a historian and an emissary to the court of King Manfred in southern Italy, was also an eminent logician. The present work is a critical edition of his main work in the field, a commentary on his teacher Khūnajī’s (d. 1248) handbook al-Jumal. The …
