Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion
Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas
- Editors Felicitas Opwis; David Reisman
- Subjects: Middle East & Islamic Studies
- Keywords: Islam; literature; philosophy; science; law; theology; logic
- Publication Year : 2011
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004217768
- E - ISBN : 9789004217768
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012
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This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–xii
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Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl from Antiochia (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works
- pp. 1–9 (9)
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Aristo of Ceus: The Fragments Concerning Eros
- pp. 11–23 (13)
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Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past
- pp. 25–39 (15)
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The Arabic History of Science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaḫt (fl. ca 770–809) and Its Middle Persian Sources
- pp. 41–62 (22)
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The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature
- pp. 63–87 (25)
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In Aristotle’s Words . . . al-Ḥātimī’s (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbī and Aristotle
- pp. 89–129 (41)
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The Prison of Categories—‘Decline’ and Its Company
- pp. 131–156 (26)
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Also via Istanbul to New Haven—Mss. Yale Syriac 7–12
- pp. 157–176 (20)
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A Judaeo-Arabic Version of T̠ābit ibn Qurra’s De imaginibus and Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Opus imaginum
- pp. 177–200 (24)
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Ibn Sīnā’s Taʿlīqāt: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-Commentaries on the Ilāhīyāt of the Šifāʾ
- pp. 201–222 (22)
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The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and Fact
- pp. 223–231 (9)
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Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicenna’s Modal Syllogistic
- pp. 233–255 (23)
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The Distinction of Essence and Existence in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context
- pp. 257–288 (32)
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Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-Kindī als Epistolograph
- pp. 289–306 (18)
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New Philosophical Texts of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: A Supplement to Endress’ Analytical Inventory
- pp. 307–326 (20)
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Avicenna’s Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taškīk al-wuǧūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources
- pp. 327–363 (37)
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The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān in Muʿtazila Discourse As Reflected in the Tahd̠īb of al-Ḥākim al-Ǧišumī (d. 494/1101)
- pp. 365–395 (31)
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Attributing Causality to God’s Law: The Solution of Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
- pp. 397–418 (22)
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Kitāb al-Ḥayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text
- pp. 419–451 (33)
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From al-Maʾmūn to Ibn Sabʿīn via Avicenna: Ibn Taymīya’s Historiography of Falsafa
- pp. 453–475 (23)
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