Classical Arabic philosophy : sources and reception
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Classical Arabic philosophy : sources and reception
（Warburg Institute colloquia, 11）
Warburg Institute, 2007
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Papers presented at a conference held at the Warburg Institute, June 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The nine papers collected here explore a broad range of sources for texts from the classical period of Arabic philosophy, and a broad range of influence exerted by these texts. By the 'classical period' is meant that part of the Arabic philosophical tradition normally included in the canon of 'medieval' philosophy. It begins in the ninth century, which is when the impact of Greek philosophical and scientific works began to be felt, thanks to their translation under the 'Abbasid caliphs, and ends in the twelfth century. This volume focuses on the influences felt by, and exerted by, the four main philosophers of this period: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. But the historical range covered extends well past the twelfth century, into Latin Renaissance philosophy and Islamic philosophy of the seventeenth century. Philosophical themes include human psychology, logic, the influence of Neoplatonism, and problems in Aristotelian natural philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Carmela Baffioni Contrariety and Similarity in God according to al-Farabi and al-Kirmani: A Comparison
- Michael Chase Did Prophyry Write a Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics? Albertus Magnus, al-Farabi and Porphyry on per se Predication
- Peter Adamson Miskawayh's Psychology
- Cornelia Schoeck Discussions on Conditional Sentences from the Year AH 17/AD 638 to Avicenna (d. AH 428/AD 1037)
- Jon McGinnis Avoiding the Void: Avicenna on the Impossibility of Circular Motion in a Void
- Yahya Michot Al-Nukat wa-l-fawa'id: An Important Summa of Avicennian Falsfa
- Toby Mayer Avicenna against Time Beginning: The Debate between the Commentators on the Isharat
- Dag Nikolaus Hasse Spontaneous Generation and the Ontology of Forms in Greek, Arabic and Medieval Latin Sources
- Sajjad Rizvi (Neo)Platonism Revived in the Light of the Imams: Qadi Sa'id Qummi (d. AH 1107/AD 1696) and his Reception of the Theologia Aristotelis
- Preface and Index.
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