The Story of Islamic Philosophy

The Story of Islamic Philosophy
Author: Salman H. Bashier
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-07-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438437447

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, Bashier puts equal emphasis on the influence of Plato's philosophical mysticism. This shift encourages a new reading of Islamic intellectual tradition, one in which boundaries between philosophy, religion, mysticism, and myth are relaxed. Bashier shows the manner in which medieval Islamic philosophers reflected on the relation between philosophy and religion as a problem that is intrinsic to philosophy and shows how their deliberations had the effect of redefining the very limits of their philosophical thought. The problems of the origin of human beings, human language, and the world in Islamic philosophy are discussed. Bashier highlights the importance of Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a landmark work often overlooked by scholars, and the thought of the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-ʿArabī to the mainstream of Islamic philosophy.

Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kit?b al-Jadal)

Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kit?b al-Jadal)
Author: Fārābī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108417531

Provides the first complete English translation of a central text in the Islamic philosophical tradition, with meticulously researched commentary and interpretation.

Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy

Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy
Author: Kiki Kennedy-Day
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1135787301

Islamic Philosophy has unusual origins. Originally a hybrid of Greek philosophy and early Islamic theology, its technical language consisted of a number of words translated from the Greek. This book studies how Islamic philosophers of the ninth century AD, such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, developed an indigenous set of terms and concepts. Their Books of Definition influenced the revision of the Arabic language to incorporate these new fields of knowledge. Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy: The Limits of Words uses the work of these philosophers as a basis from which a comparison with their Greek precedents is enabled. The book presents a framework for incorporating an Islamic and historically contextualised philosophy into a continuum of world philosophers. At the core of this framework is Ibn Sina's Kitab al-hudud which the author has translated into English and situates it in its correct geopolitical framework. In establishing a historical and literary context for the writing and circulation of Ibn Sina's definitions, the book breaks new ground in the integration of Islamic philosophy within a general history of philosophies. This fascinating and comprehensive study will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of Islamic Philosophy.

The Philosophical Works of al-Kindi

The Philosophical Works of al-Kindi
Author: Peter E. Pormann
Publisher: OUP Pakistan
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199062805

Al-Kindī, honoured as the 'philosopher of the Arabs', was the first philosopher of Islam. His pioneer philosophical writings engage with ideas that became available through the Graeco-Arabic translation movement. This volume makes his entire philosophical output-some two dozen works-available in English, most of them for the first time. An overall introduction, introductions to each work and extensive notes explain al-Kindī's ideas, sources, and influence.

Philosophy in the Islamic World

Philosophy in the Islamic World
Author: Ulrich Rudolph
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 864
Release: 2022-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004492542

A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with details of biography and doctrine as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works.

Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition

Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
Author: John Inglis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2005-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135790884

Provides a more balanced view of medieval philosophy, in contrast to the conventional neglect of Islamic and Jewish influences on medieval Latin-Christian thought Looks at the philosophy of the three great monotheistic traditions, unlike most standard works that discuss the history of single philosophical traditions Pays attention to the influence of Neoplatonism on the three traditions, an important topic in its own right

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Author: Peter Adamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107494699

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 importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.

Medieval Islamic Medicine

Medieval Islamic Medicine
Author: Peter E. Pormann
Publisher: New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 9780748620678

An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.