Islamic and Arab philosophy Books
Columbia University Press Open to Reason
Book SynopsisOpen to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Souleymane Bachir Diagne explains their relevance to our own time.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable and interesting book. Open to Reason is tremendously valuable on two levels: first, as an account of the place of philosophy in Muslim history; and, second, as a philosophical proposal of some depth and substance that could orient Muslims and others in understanding Islam today. -- Charles Taylor, author of A Secular AgeThis remarkable book asks questions that only a philosopher could ask: How does a religion yield a vast and long and rich philosophical tradition? How do its doctrines and practices come to require one to develop a philosophical temperament so as to ask rather than shun a wide range of philosophical queries? How does its language evolve to become the carrier of such a philosophical quest? With his immense learning, his wise judgment, and his probing analytical skills, Souleymane Bachir Diagne does not merely provide answers to these questions in relation to Islam, he—in doing so—also reveals something of the highest importance: that a proper pursuit of these questions can offer to us today critical possibilities in two opposing directions. On the one hand, to probe and question from the point of view of our modernity the fixities of our doctrinal past, but equally to present how Islam and the philosophy it has yielded over the centuries may offer critical resources by which to understand and criticize many aspects of our modernity. -- Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia UniversityThis elegant and enjoyable book neatly summarizes the importance of philosophy in Muslim civilization, both in medieval times and in the present. Vividly written and framed with illuminating encounters, Open to Reason is highly recommended for anyone interested in the intellectual history of Islam. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDiagne’s animated presentations of seminal Islamic philosophers range across centuries, continents, and languages as creative Muslim voices from Damascus, Baghdad, Spain, South Asia, and Mali reject 'closure' and 'literalism' and continue to offer the resources for a reconstructed Islamic intellectual tradition able to meet contemporary challenges of personal faith, ecological ethics, and political and social justice. -- Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University ChicagoHe emphasizes that Islam itself has changed with the world around it, and argues that Muslims should be open to this change. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Succeeds admirably in showing that Islam has a long tradition both of philosophizing and of positive engagement with other traditions. * Reading Religion *What makes the volume particularly valuable is a self-conscious theoretical reflection that is often missing in global philosophical accounts. * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. And How to Not Philosophize?2. How a Language Becomes Philosophical3. What Does It Mean for a Philosophy to Be Islamic4. Against Philosophy?5. A Lesson in Ecological Philosophy6. The Obligation to Philosophize7. The Need for Philosophy8. The Philosophy of Reform9. The Philosophy of Movement10. PluralismConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Tughra Books 25 Remedies for the Sick
Book SynopsisSickness washes away the dirty of sins like soap, and cleanses. It is established in an authenticated hadith that illnesses are expiation of sins. It says, 'As ripe fruits fall from the tree when it is shaken, so the sins of a beliver fall away with shaking during illness.'
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of Islamic Philosophy Routledge History of World Philosophies
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Anqa Publishing Ibn Arabi and Modern Thought
Book SynopsisThese penetrating metaphysical and spiritual teachings cross the divides of culture and time, providing unexpectedly modern insight.Table of ContentsThe orientation of this study; Ibn 'Arabi - philosophy and reason; Ibn 'Arabi and the era; Ibn 'Arabi and the self.
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The University of Michigan Press Sculpting the Self
Book SynopsisAddresses ‘what it means to be human’ in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I I. The Problematic of the Self Is the Self a Modern Invention? The Opacity of the Self Degrees and Dimensions of Selfhood First-person vs. Third-person Perspective Descriptive vs. Normative Approaches A Multi-dimensional Model Overcoming the Terminological Fray Summary II. The View from and beyond the 'I' The Paradox of Self-knowledge Non-reflective Self-knowledge Self-knowledge as Abiding Presence The Varieties of Non-reflective Self-knowledge The Kantian Dilemma Summary III. Self-knowledge and the Levels of Consciousness The Humean Challenge and the Referentiality of the “I” Onto-phenomenological Structure of Consciousness What is It Like to Be a Self? Unity of Self and Consciousness Summary Part II IV. Self, Body, and Consciousness Consciousness in Neuroscience Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness The Center of the Self: Neurons or Consciousness? The Nerve Impulse and the Structure of Consciousness Graeco-Islamic-Indian Conversations Deciphering the Self through the Subtle Bodies Emotion and Subjectivity Summary V. Sculpting the Self Philosophy, Spirituality, and Self-knowledge Self-cultivation and Human Flourishing Self-perfection and the Ideal Self Meditation and Self-transparency Self-transcendence and Transformation Self, Freedom, Being-toward-beyond-death Summary VI. Consummation: 'I or I and I Bibliography Index Locorum Index of Names Index of Subjects
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John Wiley & Sons Interim Judaism
Book SynopsisMichael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Platonic Piety and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought. He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim, Classics in Moral and Political Theory, Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy, and A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul Franks, he has translated and edited Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological Writings.
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Indiana University Press Transcendence and Beyond
Book SynopsisJohn D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. He is also David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His many books include The Weakness of God (IUP, 2006). Michael J. Scanlon, O.S.A., holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University.
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Random House USA Inc The Genius of Judaism
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Cambridge University Press How Do We Know the Social Dimension of Knowledge Volume 89
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Cambridge University Press Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad Cambridge Middle East Studies
Book SynopsisA superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by Ali Rahnema, a distinguished Iranian intellectual, relates, superstition and mystical beliefs have endured and influenced ideology and political strategy in Iran from the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century to the present day. As Rahnema demonstrates through a close reading of the Persian sources and with examples from contemporary Iranian politics, it is this supposed connectedness to the hidden world that has allowed leaders such as Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mahmud Ahmadinejad to present themselves and their entourage as representatives of the divine, and their rivals as the embodiment of evil.Trade Review'An important book.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Politicizing Occult Islam: 1. Ahmadinejad: a touch of light; 2. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's supernatural Shi'ism; 3. Shah Esma'il Safavi: the quintessentially occult Shi'i king; Part II. Popular Shi'ism: Majlesism: 4. Milieu, childhood, sanctity and fame; 5. From conceptualization to officialization of a religio-political ideology; 6. Deficiency and defectiveness of the human mind; 7. Society needs the leadership of jurists and/or kings; 8. Superstitious education: fogging minds, fostering resignation; 9. Reconfigurating the necessities of belief: articulating a state religion; 10. Majlesism as an ideology; Conclusion.
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Transcript Verlag Theorizing Justice in Contemporary Arabo-Islamic
Book SynopsisWhat is ?justice? from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different philosophical traditions, and seeks to decenter Western notions of normativity. She focuses on two thinkers, namely the feminist Fatima Mernissi (d.2015) and Mohamed Arkoun (d.2010), a well-known critic of hegemony and orthodoxy. She situates their thinking within current debates among Arab thinkers and brings their ideas into dialog with Western political philosophy. This study thus challenges stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic world by discussing postcolonial theories of gender justice, political freedom, and religion.
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers M Kiryanna
Book SynopsisProfessor M. Hiriyanna, an expert in traditional Indian philosophy and English literature, is celebrated for his unique perspective on Indian metaphysics and value investigation. This monograph evaluates his contributions, offering a comprehensive overview of his work.
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Oxford University Press Anthropology of Islamic Law
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education.Trade ReviewThe Anthropology of Islamic Law is a must read for students of both classical and modern Islamic law, Islamic ethics, Islamic scriptural hermeneutics, religious education in the Muslim world, and postcolonial studies concerned with the wide-ranging institutional, epistemic, and pedagogical changes wrought by the advent of colonial modernity in Muslim lands, as well as for students of religious law, ethics, and scriptural hermeneutics more generally. * Carl Sharif El Tobgui, Journal of the American Oriental Society *In a strikingly original work, Aria Nakissa brings contemporary philosophy together with deep ethnographic and textual knowledge to convey the logic and practices of traditionalist Islamic learning. Based on fieldwork in Cairo, the book provides the clearest account to date of competing Islamic approaches to Sharīʿa. * John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis *Professor Nakissa presents us with an erudite text. Deeply ethnographic, historically informed, and philosophically grounded, it draws the disparate strands of Islamic scholarship into a provocative synthesis. Scholars of Islam would benefit greatly from an engagement with Nakissa's arguments. * Ali Agrama, Associate Professor of Anthropology, at University of Chicago *Aria Nakissa's innovative analysis of the transmission of Sharīʿa knowledge at the venerable al-Azhar in Cairo combines a subtle ethnography of persisting academic relations based on teacher-student 'companionship' and emulation with astute readings in a wide variety of related conceptualizations in the history and present of Islamic thought. * Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University *Drawing deeply on both ethnographic and textual evidence, Nakissa bridges a deep methodological divide in Islamic studies. This lucidly written and persuasively argued study will engage readers across multiple disciplines. * Marion H. Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University *
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Oxford University Press, USA The Heart of Islamic Philosophy The Quest for SelfKnowledge in the Teachings of Afdal AlDin Kashani
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. Kashani did not write for advanced students of philosophy but rather for beginners. In the main body of his work, he offers expecially clear and insightful expositions of various philosophical positions, making him an invaluable resource for those who would like to learn the basic principles and arguments of this philosophical tradition but do not have a strong background in philosophy. Kashani held the position that philosophy awakens people from forgetfulness and incites them to reach for the perfection of existence. It was for this reason that he sought to make philosophy as accessible as possible to a wider than usual group of readers. In this book, Chittick uses Kashani and his work to introduce the basic issues and arguments of Islamic philosophy to modern readers.Trade Review... an valuable resource for English speaking scholars ... the reader is offered an interpretive translation that makes use of unusual turns of phrase and expressions without losing lucidity. The result is translation that the novice will be able to understand, though not without effort, and at which those with more experience in the field will marvel. The interpretations offered by Prof. Chittick are always well grounded in the major themes of his authors and aid the reader in coming to an appreciation of the depths of the Islamic worldview, whether through philosophy or mysticism. * Transcendent Philosophy *No one with any interest in Islamic philosophy can afford to overlook this book. * Transcendent Philosophy *A magnificent piece of translation ... The translation is very successful, literal and at the same time easy to understand ... Readers should be aware that Afdal is far from easy to translate, and this is such a readable translation, one which really brings out the almost conversational nature of Afdal's approach in many of his writings. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of Islamic philosophy and yet again Chittick has done us a tremendous service. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *A wonderful introduction to the writings and thought of Kashani for the non-specialist and specialist alike ... a useful item for the non-specialist interested in appreciating the works of Afdal al-Din Kashani, and, also, for the specialist who desires to learn something of this important Persian philosopher. * Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *
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Oxford University Press Islamic Humanism
Book SynopsisThis book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that medieval Islam was open to individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism, even liberalism.Trade ReviewThis fascinating and eloquently written text represents a sophisticated attempt to accentuate some of the distinct threads of moral and ethical thought inherent in classical Islamic expressions of humanism * Mustafa Shah, Journal of Qur'anic Studies *
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Oxford University Press Avicenna
Book SynopsisIbn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine are difficult to overstate. The great Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali thought that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna''s thought, then one would have shown the incoherence of philosophy in general. No other author is directly cited by Thomas Aquinas more often than Avicenna. But Avicenna''s significance and influence do not stop with the medieval period. His logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics are still taught in the Islamic world as living philosophy. And many contemporary Catholic and evangelical Christian philosophers still come under his influence through Aquinas''s work. Despite Avicenna''s important place in the history of ideas, however, there is no single volume that both does justice to the complete range of hiTrade ReviewIn sum, McGinnis' Avicenna is a boon to those interested in becoming acquainted with this rich, complex, and challenging thinker. It is a worthy addition to the 'Great Medieval Thinkers' series. * Jonathan Evans, University of Indianapolis *Table of Contents1. Avicenna's Intellectual and Historical Milieu ; 2. Logic and Science ; 3. Natural Science ; 4. Psychology I: Soul and the Senses ; 5. Psychology II: Intellect ; 6. Metaphysics I: Theology ; 7. Metaphysics II: Cosmology ; 8. Value Theory ; 9. Medicine and the Life Sciences ; 10. The Avicennan Heritage
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Oxford University Press, USA Beyond Dogma
Book SynopsisDespite Rumi''s (d. 1273) recent emergence as a best-selling poet in the English-speaking world, fundamental questions about his teachings, such as the relationship of his Sufi mysticism to the wider Islamic religion, remain contested. In this groundbreaking study, Jawid Mojaddedi reaches to the heart of the matter, by examining Rumi''s teachings on walaya (Friendship with God) in light of earlier discourse in the wider Sufi tradition and juridico-theological Islam. Walaya is not only central to Rumi''s teachings, but also forms the basis for the celebration of intimacy, communication with the Divine, and transcendence of conventional religiosity in his poetry. And yet walaya is the aspect of Sufism which has proven the most difficult to reconcile with juridico-theological Islam. Beyond Dogma presents, in addition to its focus on Rumi, a perceptive analysis of the historical development of the discourse on walaya in the formative centuries of Sufism. This period coincides with the timeTrade Review"In Beyond Dogma, Mojaddedi contextualizes Rumi's thought against the views of classical Sufi authors, and simultaneously offers a fresh alternative to prevalent narratives about the historical development of Sufism in the post-classical period. The first real attempt to situate Rumi within Sufi history, this superb book will make a major impact on Sufism studies."- Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Professor of History and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis "Beyond Dogma is an original and welcome contribution to the understanding of Sufi history in general and Jalaluddin Rumi in particular. Rumi is the embodiment of the essence of Islam: not an Islam that defers to a dry legalism determined by man-made concepts, but rather an Islam imbued with mercy, compassion, flexibility, and love." - Kabir Helminski, author of Living Presence and The Knowing HeartTable of ContentsNote on the Text ; Introduction ; Chapter One : The Sources ; Chapter Two: Friendship with God in Relation to Prophethood ; Chapter Three: Divine Communication ; Chapter Four: The Friend of God and The Shariah ; Chapter Five: The Friend of God and Miracles ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press AlGhazalis Philosophical Theology
Book SynopsisThe Muslim thinker al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of Islam and has been considered an authority in both Western and Islamic philosophical traditions. Born in northeastern Iran, he held the most prestigious academic post in Islamic theology in Baghdad, only to renounce the position and teach at small schools in the provinces for no money. His contributions to Islamic scholarship range from responding to the challenges of Aristotelian philosophy to creating a new type of Islamic mysticism and integrating both these traditions-falsafa and Sufism-into the Sunni mainstream.This book offers a comprehensive study of al-Ghazali''s life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world, how human acts relate to God''s power, and how the universe is structured. Frank Griffel presents a serious revision of traditional views on al-Ghazali, showing that his most important achievement was the creation of a new rationaTrade ReviewThis work of historical theology is essential reading for those wanting to understand with new depth and clarity the life and teachings of al-Ghazali. * American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences *Table of ContentsTimetable ; Introduction ; Chapter One: A Life Between Public and Private Instruction: Al-Ghazali's Biography The Main Sources for Ghazali's Biography ; Chapter Two: Al-Ghazali's Most Influential Students and Followers ; Chapter Three: Al-Ghazali On the Role of falsafa in Islam ; Chapter Four: The Reconciliation of Reason and Revelation Through the "Rule of Interpretation" ; Chapter Five: Cosmology in Early Islam-Developments that Led to al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers ; Chapter Six: The Seventeenth Discussion of the Incoherence of the Philosophers ; Chapter Seven: Knowledge of Causal Connections is Necessary ; Chapter Eight: Causes and Effects in the Revival of the Religious Sciences ; Chapter Nine: Cosmology in Works Written After the Revival ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; General Index ; Index of Works by al-Ghazali ; Index of Manuscripts ; Index of Verses in the Qur'an
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Penn State University Press Receptive Human Virtues A New Reading of Jonathan
Book SynopsisAn examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards.Trade Review“Elizabeth Agnew Cochran’s examination of Jonathan Edwards and the human virtues engages questions of interest both to contemporary ethicists and to historians of eighteenth-century American and British thought. No other scholar has focused so intently on Edwards’s views of the human virtues or illustrated so carefully the problems inherent in their articulation in his theology or the solutions he devised to overcome those problems. The style is lucid and unpretentious, and Cochran contributes to a lively continuing conversation among ethicists and historians about the plausibility of an ethics of virtue in a Christian moral theology. By arguing skillfully that an ethics of virtue can have, as it did for Edwards, Christian rather than exclusively Aristotelian presuppositions, she stakes out a forceful position in a continuing debate.”—E. Brooks Holifield,Charles Howard Candler Professor, Emory University“Elizabeth Agnew Cochran offers very perceptive insights both into Edwards and into the value of Edwards for contemporary discussions of virtue ethics.”—George Marsden,University of Notre Dame“Professor Cochran explicates with unprecedented clarity Edwards’s concern to balance an exalted vision of true virtue for the saints with a natural goodness available for cultivation more generally. She thus surprises by showing Edwards's God to be concerned with building not only a church shining with moral beauty but also a world of justice and civility. This sophisticated and elegant book will become an essential resource for all future studies of the ethics of America's theologian.”—Gerald R. McDermott,Roanoke College“We have long recognized that Edwards played a key role in the development of American theology and religious life more generally, and in recent years a number of scholars have begun to re-examine his role in the formation of a distinctively American form of philosophy. Given his overall importance, it is hardly surprising that Edwards’s ethical writings, including his theory of virtue, have received sustained attention. At the same time, however, much of the recent work on Edwards’s virtue ethics has minimized its distinctiveness, by assimilating it to more familiar Aristotelian approaches, or taking it out of the wider context of Edwards’s other work, or both. In this book, Elizabeth Cochran offers a bold and much-needed corrective. In her view, Edwards understands the virtues properly so called to be attributes of God, and to be attributes of human persons only in a secondary sense. In order to make the case for this interpretation, she draws on the full range of Edwards’s theological writings, in addition to considering the leading philosophical thinkers who helped to frame the context of his thought. By doing so, she shows Edwards to be a sophisticated moral thinker, important in his own context, and potentially an interlocutor in our own debates over the virtues. In particular, this study will be welcomed by those moral philosophers who have recently attempted to retrieve broadly Platonic, exemplarist theories of the virtues. Cochran shows that this approach to virtue theory can claim at least one distinguished American predecessor in Edwards. Seen from the standpoint of contemporary advocates of an exemplarist account of virtues, Edwards is particularly important because his primary interlocutors are the ‘moral sense’ theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, including David Hume—the ancestors of emotivist theories of virtue which currently constitute another central strand of virtue ethics. Yet Edwards engages directly with the moral sense theorists of his own day, showing how his exemplarist account offers a more satisfactory account of virtue than they can provide, even understood on their own terms. While the terms of the relevant debates have of course changed a great deal since Edwards’s day, he nonetheless offers contemporary philosophers some valuable insights into our current debates, and defenders of exemplarist theories of virtue will find him an unexpected, yet valuable ally.”—Jean Porter,University of Notre Dame“To restore virtue to the heart of morality, today's theological ethicists retrieve and mine the works of Augustine and Aquinas, as well as their philosophical precursors, Plato and Aristotle. Into this pantheon of virtue ethicists, Elizabeth Agnew Cochran now proposes, from the New World, the Puritan Jonathan Edwards. This surprising proposal is completely convincing and satisfying. Cochran gives us not only a compelling key in which to read the great American theologian (Edwards scholars take note!), but also a contemporary notion of moral agency, humbly cognizant of human sinfulness as well as the call to responsibility and the need for grace. Cochran's refreshingly rich theological account makes the restoration of virtue ethics all the more probable by attending to, rather than ignoring, the Reformation. Brava!”—James F. Keenan, S.J.,Boston College“Cochran presents a creative, concise, and lucid account that deserves serious consideration by historians, theologians, and ethicists.”—B. M. Stephens ChoiceTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments1. An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues2. Love as Necessary and Volitional: Edwards’s Account of True Virtue in God3. Charity as a Human Virtue: The Moral Accountability of a Necessary Nature4. Humility as a Human Virtue: Imaging God’s Mercy Through Creaturely Capacities5. Virtuous Repentance: Apprehending and Approving God’s Moral Excellence6. Justice and Partial Loves: The Natural Goodness of Incomplete VirtuesConclusion Virtues, Accountability, and Dependence: Edwards’s Significance for Contemporary Christian EthicsNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary
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Claritas Books The Glory of Iqbal
Book SynopsisIqbal's poems in his early life acclaimed him as a rising poet on the literary horizon of the subcontinent. His brilliance later dazzled the eyes of people living in distant countries and won for him an honourable place amongst the galaxy of immortal poets of the world.
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Cambridge University Press Alfarabis Book of Dialectic Kitb alJadal
Book SynopsisWidely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his successors in the medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian communities, Alfarabi was a leading figure in the fields of Aristotelian logic and Platonic political science. The first complete English translation of his commentary on Aristotle''s Topics, Alfarabi''s Book of Dialectic, or Kitab al-Jadal, is presented here in a deeply researched edition based on the most complete Arabic manuscript sources. David M. DiPasquale argues that Alfarabi''s understanding of the Socratic art of dialectic is the key prism through which to grasp his recovery of an authentic tradition of Greek science on the verge of extinction. He also suggests that the Book of Dialectic is unique to the extent to which it unites Alfarabi''s logical and political writings, opening up novel ways of interpreting Alfarabi''s influence.Trade Review'David M. DiPasquale’s translation and interpretation of Alfarabi’s Book of Dialectic advances our understanding of Alfarabi’s innovative approach to philosophy and subtle attempt to breathe new life into its pursuit. DiPasquale renders Dominic Mallet’s path-breaking edition of the Arabic text in a manner that captures Alfarabi’s nuances while respecting his unique reticence.' Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland'A dependable English translation of Alfarabi’s indispensable work, Book of Dialectic, is a great boon - especially given that the only critical Arabic edition exists in an unpublished French dissertation. In addition, DiPasquale’s fine book reveals why dialectic is central not only to political philosophy but also to the whole of philosophy.' Josh Parens, University of DallasTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Alfarabi's Kitāb al-Jadal: complete English translation; 2. Dialectic and political science; 3. Dialectic and the principles of all science; 4. Dialectic and the method of natural and divine science; 5. Dialectic and education; 6. Conclusion: Alfarabi and the taxonomy of the medieval Arabic Organon; Glossary A: English–Arabic; Glossary B: Arabic–English; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Revival of Islamic Rationalism
Book SynopsisIn this book, Masooda Bano presents an in-depth analysis of a new movement that is transforming the way that young Muslims engage with their religion. Led by a network of Islamic scholars in the West, this movement seeks to revive the tradition of Islamic rationalism. Bano explains how, during the period of colonial rule, the exit of Muslim elites from madrasas, the Islamic scholarly establishments, resulted in a stagnation of Islamic scholarship. This trend is now being reversed. Exploring the threefold focus on logic, metaphysics, and deep mysticism, Bano shows how Islamic rationalism is consistent with Sunni orthodoxy and why it is so popular among young, elite, educated Muslims, who are now engaging with classical Islamic texts. One of the most tangible results of this revival is that Islamic rationalism - rather than jihadism - is emerging as one of the most influential movements in the contemporary Muslim world.Table of Contents1. Global shifts and the rise of Islamic rationalism; Part I. Specialist versus Tacit Knowledge: 2. What is Islam?; 3. Learning from the old geographies of Islam; 4. Teaching in the new geographies of Islam; 5. Mixing dispersed knowledge; Part II. Affluence and Creativity: 6. Material conditions and attitudes towards the texts; 7. Elites and institutional consolidation.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Philosophy of Religion in Islam
Book SynopsisRahim Acar is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Marmara University, Turkey.M. Cüneyt Kaya is Professor of Islamic Philosophy at Istanbul University, Turkey.
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Gorgias Press Coherence of the Incoherence
Book SynopsisCoherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos is the first of a two-part critical examination of the seminal debate carried out in the pages of Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers and Ibn Rushd's Incoherence of the Incoherence. While an upcoming second volume focuses on the elements in that debate related to the God and the soul, this volume focuses on questions related to nature and the cosmos, including the controversies over the eternity of the universe and necessity of natural causation. The debate, I argue, is not simply a polemic between faith and reason,' but a penetrating philosophical discussion with enduring potential to inform work in philosophy and analytic theology. To that end, I analyze and evaluate the arguments made by both sides, explaining the philosophical concepts involved in their historical context and the core questions on which their differences turn. In the process, I draw some illuminating connections between po
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Okcir Press (Imprint of Ahead Publishing House) Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 2: Khayyami Millennium: Reporting the Discovery and the Reconfirmation of the True Dates of Birth and Passing of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123)
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Okcir Press (Imprint of Ahead Publishing House) Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 2: Khayyami Millennium: Reporting the Discovery and the Reconfirmation of the True Dates of Birth and Passing of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123)
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Okcir Press (Imprint of Ahead Publishing House) Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 3: Khayyami Astronomy: How Omar Khayyam's Newly Discovered True Birth Date Horoscope Reveals the Origins of His Pen Name and Independently Confirm
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled
Book SynopsisI.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies This is the first English translation of the final philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid emissary, N?sir-i Khusraw. Appointed from Cairo by command of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mustansir to serve first as a d?'?, and then as the hujjat, for the entire region of Khur?s?n, he maintained his allegiance both to his mission and his Imam-caliph for the rest of his life, even when threatened and driven into exile. Written during his exile in Badakhsh?n in the year 1070, N?sir-i Khusraw here develops a powerful presentation of both Aristotelian philosophy and Ismaili exegesis, or ta'w?l, and strives to show that they are ultimately in harmony. The work is presented as a learned commentary on a long philosophical poem, written in the previous century and sent to N?sir by the am?r of Badakhsh?n, 'Al? b. al-Asad, who copied the poem out in his own hand from memory and asked the poet-philosopher to explicate it. In doing so, N?sir ranges over a huge span of topics from logic and language to the nature of the physical world, from the spheres of the highest heavens to the plants and animals of the earthly realm, and, most importantly, hidden spiritual realities: the esoteric (b?tin) as well as the exoteric (z?hir) realms. He thus discusses the nature of God, the creation of human beings, and the mysteries concealed in the physical world, itself a reflection of a higher, transcendent realm. Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled is an annotated translation of the Persian text prepared by Henry Corbin and Mohammed Mu'?n based on the single surviving manuscript of the work, now in the Süleymaniye Mosque Library in Istanbul. It is a work of great philosophical and spiritual insight, which is also a pioneering attempt to tackle difficult intellectual problems in the Persian language; it is at once lucid and lyrical, precise and speculative. N?sir’s influence has been immense as both a poet and a thinker, and the Kit?b-i J?mi' al-hikmatayn is his crowning work.
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ISF Publishing Los Sufis
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ISF Publishing The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
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ISF Publishing Los Sufis
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pioneers of Islamic Revival
Book SynopsisEver since they became conscious of their relative decline, the societies of the Middle East, and other Islamic countries more generally, have turned to Islam as an antidote to humiliation and decadence. This book examines the political environments, lives and works of those diverse nineteenth and twentieth century Muslim thinkers who believed that Islam was capable of providing practical solutions to the problems of the modern world. The volume provides a balanced account of their contribution to contemporary revolutionary Islam and to political developments in countries from Morocco to Indonesia. The writings and political activity of al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi, Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Musa al-Sadr, Ali Shariati and Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr are considered, explaining the roots of movements as diverse as the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jama'at-i Islami, the radical Iranian clergy and the militant Shi'i of Lebanon. The book provides an ideal introduction to the complexity and variety of Islamic revival, revealing the motivations of the thinkers who have reshaped the political vocabulary of Islam. Ali Rahnema's major new introductory chapter puts these still hugely influential Muslim thinkers and the movements they inspired in the context of the extraordinarily changed circumstances confronting Islamic countries both internally and internationally since 9/11. He explores the dangers of any Western-Islamic standoff in a situation where both Muslim terrorists and certain chauvinist Christian elements are misusing the religions they ostensibly espouse. It becomes all the more important for Muslims and non-Muslims to understand the real thinking that has long gone in influential Islamic circles. This book intends to make a contribution in this regard.Trade Review'This is a judicious and well-conceived collection of studies by experts on prominent figures in the modern Islamic political revival... Anyone concerned with the politics of the modern Islamic world will find it useful to have this detailed Who's Who within reach.' Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Bulletin 'Well written articles on nine of the best known Islamic ideologues of the past century, the majority authored by a scholar who has published major work on the figure or his movement... The articles are appropriate to undergraduates and the book could well serve to structure an introductory course in modern Islamic thought'. Religious Studies Review 'The scholarly profiles in Pioneers of Islamic Revival give readers an opportunity to judge for themselves where the truth lies.' Third World Resources 'This is an excellent anthology about nine of the most influential thinkers of the past century who have contributed significantly to the shape of popular Islamic thought.' American Sufi Muslim Association (ASMA) 'The new edition of this book is welcome. Its essays dissect the contrasting approaches of eight of the most significant figures to develop political Islam.' Chris Harman, International SocialismTable of Contents Introduction to 2nd Edition: Contextualizing the Pioneers of Islamic Revival - Ali Rahnema 1. Introduction to 1st Edition - Ali Rahnema 2. Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'al-Afghani' - Nikki R.Keddie 3. Muhammad Abduh: Pioneer of Islamic Reform - Yvonne Haddad 4. Khomeini's Search for Perfection: Theory and Reality - Baqer Moin 5. Mawdudi and the Jama'at-i Islami: The Origins, Theory and Practice of Islamic Revivalism - Syyed Vali Reza Nasr 6. Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949) - David Commins 7. Sayyid Qutb: The Political Vision - Charles Tripp 8. Musa al-Sadr - Augustus Richard Norton 9. Ali Shariati: Teacher, Preacher, Rebel - Ali Rahnema 10. Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - Chibli Mallat Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 1:
Book SynopsisThe tradition of philosophy in the Persian-speaking world is extraordinarily rich, creative and diverse. This anthology, which is divided into three volumes, aims to communicate something of that richness and diversity. The term 'philosophy' is understood to in its widest sense to include theological debate, philosophical Sufism and philosophical hermeneutics (ta'wil). Extending over a period of more than two millennia, and showcasing translations by well-established scholars, the anthology offers full bibliographical references throughout. For anyone interested in exploring, in all their varied manifestations, the fascinating philosophical traditions of Persia, such a wide-ranging and ambitious work will be an indispensable resource. Volume 1 starts with the Zoroastrian period and extends to the time of Biruni and Oma Khayyam, paying special attenton to the peripatetic school associated with Ibn Sina (Avicenna). During the pre-Islamic period philosophy was intertwined with religion, and it is within Persian religious texts such as the "Gathas", the "Denkard", and the Zoroastrian texts of the "Bundahisn" that philosophical discussions of subjects ranging from metaphysics to cosmology and eschatology are to be found.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 2: Ismaili Thought in the Classical Age
Book SynopsisThe tradition of philosophy in the Persian-speaking world is extraordinarily rich, creative and diverse. This anthology, which is divided into three volumes, aims to communicate something of that richness and diversity. The term 'philosophy' is understood to in its widest sense to include theological debate, philosophical Sufism and philosophical hermeneutics (ta'wil). Extending over a period of more than two millennia, and showcasing translations by well-established scholars, the anthology offers full bibliographical references throughout. For anyone interested in exploring, in all their varied manifestations, the fascinating philosophical traditions of Persia, such a wide-ranging and ambitious work will be an indispensable resource. Volume 2 covers five centuries of Ismaili philosophy, and includes extracts from outstanding Ismaili works including the "Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa" ("Treatises of the Brethren of Purity") and the philosophical odes of Nasir Khusraw. It is of great siginificance that, in the early centuries of Islam, philosophers were influenced by Pythagorean and Hermetic ideas, which are usually associated with Shi'i thought in general and Ismailism in particular. Ismaili philosophy at this time was able to integrate strands of Greco-Alexandrian thought such as Hermeticism and Neo-Pythagoreanism, as well as aspects of Mazdaeism and Manichaeism. It also showed marked interest in Neo-platonism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 4: From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism
Book SynopsisThe fourth volume of the Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and yet least known periods of philosophical life in Persia, the centuries between the seventh/thirteenth century, that saw the eclipse of the school of Khorosan, and the tenth/sixteenth century that coincided with the rise of the Safavids. The main schools dealt with in this volume are the Peripatetic (mashsha'i) School, the School of Illumination (ishraq) of Suhrawardi, and various forms of philosophical Sufism, especially the school of Ibn 'Arabi, that had its origins in the works of Ghazzali and 'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani. This period was also notable for the philosopher-scientists such as Nasir al-Din Tusi and Qutb al-Din Shirazi.
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Springer Mindfulness and Wellbeing
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Wellbeing.- Chapter 3. The Qur’an & al-Ghazali’s the revival.- Chapter 4: Islamic mindfulness:concepts.- Chapter 5. Applied techniques of Islamic mindfulness.- Chapter 6. Spiritual virtues in Islamic mindfulness.- Chapter 7. the role of ethics and morality in Islamic mindfulness.-Chapter 8. Suffering in the Islamic mindfulness context.- Chapter 9. A definition of Islamic mindfulness.- Chapter 10. Navigating Islamic texts: a wellness-centred approach.- Chapter 11: Muslim minds matter.
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De Gruyter Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul
Book SynopsisThis book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitāb al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037). This study seeks to frame Avicenna’s science of the soul (or psychology) by focusing on three key concepts: subject, definition, and activity. The examination of these concepts will disclose the twofold consideration of the soul in Avicenna’s psychology. Besides the ‘general approach’ to the soul of sublunary living beings, which is the formal principle of the body, Avicenna’s psychology also exhibits a ‘specific orientation’ towards the soul in itself, i.e. the human rational soul that, considered in isolation from the body, is a self-subsistent substance, identical with the theoretical intellect and capable of surviving severance from the body. These two investigations demonstrate the coexistence in Avicenna’s psychology of a more specific and less physical science (psychologia specialis) within a more general and overall physical one (psychologia generalis).
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Brill Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings
Book SynopsisMuslim 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 al-Nayrīzī (d. after 933/1526), whose life and works are the subject of this book, spent his formative years. An accomplished Shīʿī scholars, Nayrīzī engaged with Avicennan as well as Suhrawardian philosophy in his works. Beside Nayrīzī, the present study introduces his contemporaries among the philosophers of Shiraz and provides an outline of the main challenges of their thought, particularly of the two leading figures, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502) and Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Dashtakī.Trade Review"Copiously annotated, with a number of appendices which include Arabic texts, Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran will be of interest to historians and philosophers concerned with the intellectual development of the early Safavid period." Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies, Summer 2011, Vol. IV. No. 3, p. 362. "...Pourjavady deserves our thanks for this excellent contribution. Its appearance, one hopes, will constitute the pebble which will, or should, set in motion an avalanche of attention to the careers and contributions of all these figures from the fifteenth and sixteenth-century." Andrew J. Newman, in Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies Vol. IV, No. 4 (2011) "...this work can [...] be regarded as a substantial contribution to the necessary groundwork still to be done on the too long neglected intellectual developments especially in the Persianate world." Jan-Peter Hartung in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 21.4 (2011), 517-518. "... a highly welcome addition to the gradually increasing number of studies on the nature and extent of the history of post-Avicennan philosophy in Iran." Hossein Ziai in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 75.1 (2012), 155-156. "[Pourjavady] dresse un tableau remarquable des débats au cœur des préoccupations des penseurs de ce temps […], et décrit les deux tendances principales présentes alors à Shīrāz, le centre de la culture intellectuelle à l’époque." Cécile Bonmariage in Revue Philosophique de Louvain 110.2 (2012), 384-386. "...an admirable piece of scholarship that will be of help to many scholars and students in late medieval Islamic intellectual history." L.W.C. van Lit in Ilahiyat Studies 3.2 (2012). “This rich yet uncluttered presentation of philosophical issues debated in Shiraz in the late ninth/fifteenth and early tenth/sixteenth century by Reza Pourjavady, […], will delight scholars of the Middle East.” “[…]an admirable work of publishing[…].” Vika Gardner in Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 24.2 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2012.684750 "... Reza Pourjavady is to be complimented for his clearly written, well-organized, and carefully presented portrait of the Shiraz school and its star pupil, Najm al-Dīn al-Nayrīzī. He casts important light on a thinker and school heretofore inadequately known or studied and advances understanding of the important movement both represent. In the process, he has demonstrated a compelling mastery of the relevant materials, especially the manuscript tradition, and an admirable ability to put them in context." Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland, in Iranian Studies 52.1-2 (2019)
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Brill 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
Book SynopsisThrough 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 Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely revised and updated, and adds a new final chapter summarizing Avicenna's philosophical project. It is also enlarged with the addition of a new appendix which offers a critical inventory of Avicenna's authentic works, updating the work of Mahdavi (1954) with additional information on all manuscripts and important editions and translations. Its usefulness enhanced, the book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes an indispensable research tool for their study. Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014Trade Review"Dimitri Gutas needs no introduction to the scholar of Islamic thought, especially in the area of philosophy. Throughout his long and fruitful career he has produced a series of works on the Greek heritage in Islamic philosophy that have remained the standard reference work for both academics and students.This present work, which is the second revised and enlarged edition of a previous one that had been published back in 1988, is a much needed addition that will enhance a better appraisal of the Avicennan corpus. [...]. Like its predecessor, this second revised and enlarged edition is breath–taking in its scope and a mark of authentic and meticulous scholarship. Yet again, Gutas has proved his credentials as an authority on Avicenna, as well as a scholar of profound erudition and insight, whose works continue to provide abundant food for further thought and discussion." Joseph Ellul in Islamochristiana 40 (2014) "... this volume is a very detailed introduction and orientation to Avicenna: a foundational tool for research on his philosophy which will contribute to further studies." Cecilia Martini Bonadeo in Studia graeco-arabica 5 (2015). "The new edition of Avicenna has become more useful with the carefully prepared index of Ibn Sīnā’s works in original titles and their English translations as well as the bibliography and the index of concepts that did not exist in the first edition. It is especially important for outlining the Western literature on Ibn Sīnā over a quarter of a century. Thanks to Gutas’ mastery and diligence in his historical, philological and philosophical analysis of Ibn Sīnā’s life, works and thoughts, the new edition of Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition reasserts its methodological model for studying Arabic/Islamic philosophy and deserves to be called a “modern classic.” M. Cüneyt Kaya in Nazariyat, Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, May 2015. "... among the most important publications on Avicenna in modern times. It is a masterpiece of history of Arabic philosophy, serious philology and meticulous scholarship." Abdessamad Belhaj in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 14 June, 2015. "The second edition,... is a corrected and greatly expanded version of the original work and will be of use to students and scholars for decades to come." John T. Slotemaker in Religious Studies Review, 42, December 2016. "...this book provides primary orientation to Avicenna's philosophy and works and constitutes and indispensable research tool for their study. Thus, it is absolutely useful to all those interested in the philosophy of Avicenna, Islamic philosophy, medieval philosophy, ancient and late antique philosophy, Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition." Elias TempelisTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition (2013) Acknowledgments Introduction to the First Edition (1988) Layout of the Work PART ONE DOCUMENTS ON AVICENNA AND THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 1. Personal Texts by Avicenna and His Disciples on His Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition Chapter 2. An Inventory and Relative Chronology of Avicenna’s Major Philosophical Works. Their Organization and Contents in Relation to the Aristotelian Tradition PART TWO AVICENNA’S RECEPTION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 3. Avicenna’s Intellectual Upbringing: The Autobiography and Its Interpretation Chapter 4. Avicenna’s Conception of the History of Philosophy Chapter 5. Avicenna’s Conception of the Praxis of Philosophy PART THREE AVICENNA’S INTEGRATION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION Chapter 6. The Resolution of the Major Points of Conflict with the Aristotelian Tradition Chapter 7. The Evolution of Avicenna’s Attitude toward Aristotle, the Aristotelian Tradition, and His Own Work Chapter 8. The Elaboration of Methods CODA. Avicenna’s Philosophical Project APPENDIX. Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic works Index of Names and Places Index of Avicenna’s Works with Passages Cited Index of Lemmata Index of Qurʾānic Passages Index of Manuscripts Index of Greek Words Index of Arabic Words Index of Technical Terms Bibliography
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Brill World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science
Book SynopsisTwo remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.Trade Review'Science historian David King wrote a monumental book about [a] cartographical miracle.' Dirk van Delft, NRC Handelsblad, 2000. '…impressive volume…This is an important reference book full of suggestions for further studies.' Roser Puig, ISIS, 2001. ‘…King has written a fascinating, beautifully illustrated book that should be read by any person interested in Islamic science or the history of mathematical geography.’ Benno van Dalen, Royal Asiatic Society, 2002.
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Brill In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 1 Call of the Muezzin: (Studies I-IX)
Book SynopsisThis is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen.
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Brill Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation: Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, on Psychology and Metaphysics
Book SynopsisIn 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 Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.Trade Review"By analyzing Todrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission process, translation theory and praxis, and the impact of Avicenna’s philosophy on Jewish medieval scientist/philosophers. Recommended for all academic libraries with Jewish studies collections and upper level graduates." David B. Levy in AJL Reviews 5, 4 (2015).
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Brill Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions
Book SynopsisIslam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study of the Muslim hell. It maps out a broad spectrum of Islamic attitudes toward hell, from the Quranic vision(s) of hell to the pious cultivation of the fear of the afterlife, theological speculations, metaphorical and psychological understandings, and the modern transformations of hell. Contributors: Frederick Colby, Daniel de Smet, Christiane Gruber, Jon Hoover, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Christian Lange, Christopher Melchert, Simon O’Meara, Samuela Pagani, Tommaso Tesei, Roberto Tottoli, Wim Raven, and Richard van Leeuwen.Trade Review"Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions wird für die weitere Erforschung der Vorstellungen von der islamischen Hölle ein unabdingbarer Bezugspunkt bleiben. Rüdiger Lohlke, University of Vienna.Table of ContentsTable of contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Introducing hell in Islamic Studies Christian Lange Part I: Quranic netherworlds 2. The barzakh and the intermediate state of the dead in the Quran Tommaso Tesei 3. From space to place: The Quranic infernalization of the jinn Simon O’Meara 4. Revisiting hell’s angels in the Quran Christian Lange Part II: Hell in early and medieval Islam 5. Locating hell in early renunciant literature Christopher Melchert 6. Fire in the upper heavens: Locating hell in Middle Period narratives of Muḥammad’s Ascension Frederick Colby 7. Hell in popular Muslim imagination: The anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAẓama Wim Raven Part III: Theological and mystical aspects 8. Is hell truly everlasting? An introduction to medieval Islamic universalism Mohammad Hassan Khalil 9. Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and the political functions of punishment in Islamic hell Samuela Pagani 10. Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazīr (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire Jon Hoover Part IV: Varieties of hell in Islamic traditions 11. Ismaʿili-Shiʿi visions of hell: From the “spiritual” torment of the Fatimids to the Ṭayyibī rock of Sijjīn Daniel de Smet 12. The Morisco hell: The significance and relevance of the Aljamiado texts for Muslim eschatology and Islamic literature Roberto Tottoli 13. Curse signs: The artful rhetoric of hell in Safavid Iran Christiane Gruber 14. Literature and religious controversy: The vision of hell in Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī l-jaḥīm Richard van Leeuwen General index List of contributors
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Brill Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr
Book SynopsisThe present volume—the first of its kind—deals with takfīr: accusing one´s opponents of unbelief (kufr). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents—either persons, groups or even institutions—as unbelievers who should be condemned, anathematized or even persecuted. Each case presented is placed in its sociopolitical and religious context. Together the contributions show the multifariousness that has always characterized Islam and the various ways in which Muslims either sought to suppress or to come to terms with this diversity. With contributions by: Roswitha Badry, Sonja Brentjes, Brian J. Didier, Michael Ebstein, Simeon Evstatiev, Ersilia Francesca, Robert Gleave, Steven Judd, István T. Kristó-Nagy, Göran Larsson, Amalia Levanoni, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Hossein Modarressi, Justyna Nedza, Intisar A. Rabb, Sajjad Rizvi, Daniel de Smet, Zoltan Szombathy, Joas Wagemakers.Table of ContentsContents List of contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction I. Takfīr Through Islamic History 1. The Early Period (First/Seventh-Fourth/Tenth Centuries) Self-defining through Faith: The walāya and barāʾa Dynamics among the Early Ibāḍis Ersilia Francesca Were the Umayyad-Era Qadarites Kāfirs? Steven Judd Denouncing the Damned Zindīq! Struggle and Interaction between Monotheism and Dualism István T. Kristó-Nagy Kufr et takfīr dans l’ismaélisme fatimide: Le Kitāb Tanbīh al-hādī de Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī Daniel De Smet 2. The Classical and Post-Classical Period (Fifth/Eleventh-Eleventh/Eighteenth Centuries) The Vocabulary of "Unbelief" in Three Biographical Dictionaries and Two Historical Chronicles of the 7th/13th and 8th/14th Centuries Sonja Brentjes Takfīr in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Period Amalia Levanoni Takfīr and Messianism: The Ḥurūfī Case Orkhan Mir-Kasimov The Qāḍīzādeli Movement and the Revival of takfīr in the Ottoman Age Simeon Evstatiev The takfīr of the Philosophers (and Sufis) in Safavid Iran Sajjad Rizvi 3. The Modern Period The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and takfīr in a South Indian Community Brian J. Didier The Sum of its Parts: The State as Apostate in Contemporary Saudi Militant Islamism Justyna Nedza “The Kāfir Religion of the West”: Takfīr of Democracy and Democrats by Radical Islamists Joas Wagemakers On the takfīr of Arab Women Rights Advocates in Recent Times Roswitha Badry Apostasy in the West: A Swedish Case Study Göran Larsson II. Discussing Takfīr:Different Perspectives Essential Islam: The Minimum that a Muslim is Required to Acknowledge Hossein Modarressi Abandoning Prayer and the Declaration of Unbelief in Imāmī Jurisprudence Robert Gleave Society and Propriety: The Cultural Construction of Defamation and Blasphemy as Crimes in Islamic Law Intisar A. Rabb Literary Works as Evidence of Unbelief Zoltan Szombathy “Religions, Opinions and Beliefs Are Nothing but Roads and Paths … While the Goal Is One”: Between Unity and Diversity in Islamic Mysticism Michael Ebstein
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Brill The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi
Book SynopsisThe Arabo-Islamic heritage of the Islam is among the richest, most diverse, and longest-lasting literary traditions in the world. Born from a culture and religion that valued teaching, Arabo-Islamic learning spread from the seventh century and has had a lasting impact until the present.In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning leading scholars around the world present twenty-five studies explore diverse areas of Arabo-Islamic heritage in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher, Dr. Wadad A. Kadi (Prof. Emerita, University of Chicago). The volume includes contributions in three main areas: History, Institutions, and the Use of Documentary Sources; Religion, Law, and Islamic Thought; Language, Literature, and Heritage which reflect Prof. Kadi’s contributions to the field. Contributors:Sean W. Anthony; Ramzi Baalbaki; Jonathan A.C. Brown; Fred M. Donner; Mohammad Fadel; Kenneth Garden; Sebastian Günther; Li Guo; Heinz Halm; Paul L. Heck; Nadia Jami; Jeremy Johns; Maher Jarrar; Marion Holmes Katz; Scott C. Lucas; Angelika Neuwirth; Bilal Orfali; Wen-chin Ouyang; Judith Pfeiffer; Maurice A. Pomerantz; Riḍwān al-Sayyid ; Aram A. Shahin; Jens Scheiner; John O. Voll; Stefan Wild.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………. The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning………………………………………………………………….. Prof. Wadad Kadi: A Life of Learning and Teaching……………………………………………. Bibliography Wadad Kadi (Wadād al-Qāḍī)……………………………….………………………… Works Dedicated to Wadad Kadi………………………………………………………………………….. HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE USE OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES The Meccan Prison of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr and the Imprisonment of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya………………………………………………………………………………3 Sean W. Anthony Fragments of Three Umayyad Official Documents …………………………………………..30 Fred M. Donner Single Isnāds or Riwāyas? Quoted Books in Ibn ʿAsākirʼs Tarjama of Tamīm al-Dārī…………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………48 Jens Scheiner Friendship in the Service of Governance: Makārim al-Akhlāq in Abbasid Political Culture …………………………………………………………………………………………………81 Paul L. Heck Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof…….101 Heinz Halm A New Latin-Arabic Document from Norman Sicily (November 595 H/1198 CE)..123 Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns RELIGION, LAW, AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT The Rhetorical Qurʾān or Orality as a Theologumenon………………………………………189 Angelika Neuwirth The “Shearing of Forelocks” as a Penitential Rite…………………………………………………212 Marion Holmes Katz Authority in Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s Kitāb al-nawādir wa-l-ziyādāt ʿalā mā fī l-Mudawwana min ghayrihā min al-ummahāt: The Case of “The Chapter of Judgments” (Kitāb al-aqḍiya)…………………………………..228 Mohammad Fadel A Segment of the Genealogy of Sunni Ḥadīth Criticism: The Mysterious Relationship between al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī and al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī…………249 Jonathan Brown Al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunnī Voice in the Shīʿī Century…………………………………………………………………………258 Scott C. Lucas Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on Education…………………………………………………..272 Sebastian Günther Teaching the Learned: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s Ijāza to Muʾayyadzāda ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fārs and the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century…………………………306 Judith Pfeiffer Scholars in Networks: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and His Travels……………………….360 John O. Voll Rhetorics of Revival: al-Ghazālī and His Modern Heirs………………………………………..381 Kenneth Garden LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HERITAGE Grammarians on the Afʿāl al-Muqāraba: Steps in the Sources towards a Subdivision of Operants………………………………………..………………………………………..……………………………405 Ramzi Baalbaki Reflections on the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir……………………..…………………………..432 Aram A. Shahin Literature and Thought: Re-reading al-Tawḥīdī’s Transcription of the Debate between Logic and Grammar………………………………………………………………………………….473 Wen-chin Ouyang The Play of Genre: A Maqāma of “Ease after Hardship” from the Eighth/Fourteenth Century and Its Literary Context…………………………………………………………………………….492 Maurice A. Pomerantz What’s in a Mamluk Picture? The Hall of Portraiture at the Cairo Citadel Remembered……………………………………………………………………………………………….518 Li Guo In Defense of the Use of Qurʾān in Adab: Ibn Abī l-Luṭf’s Rafʿ al-iltibās ʿan munkir al-iqtibās………………………………………………………535 Bilal Orfali Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights……………………………………..564 Wolfhart Heinrichs Modern Arabic Literature and Islam…………………………………………………………………….576 Stefan Wild Abraham and the Sacrificial Son: Transtextual Strategies in José Saramago’s The Gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury’s As though She Were Sleeping……………………………………………………………………………………………………….593 Maher Jarrar The Ideological and Epistemological: Contemporary Readings in Arabo-Islamic Classical Heritage (Turāth)……………………………………………………………………………………………………640 Riḍwān al-Sayyid (Translated by Eman Morsi) Index of Arabic Terms Index of Proper Nouns Notes on the Contributors
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Brill Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī.
Book SynopsisAl-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 Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers. Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.Table of ContentsContents Preface Notes on Contributors Keys and Conventions Part I Al-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought 1 Al-Ghazālī on Error Taneli Kukkonen 2 Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy Ulrich Rudolph 3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best Possible World Thesis Stephen Ogden 4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah) Ahmed El Shamsy 5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism Ayman Shihadeh 6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft? Anna Ayṣe Akasoy 7 Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318? Frank Griffel Part II Al-Ghazālī’s Influence 8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Cognitive Theories Damien Janos 9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35) Jules Janssens 10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in the Late Ottoman Period M. Sait Özervarlı 11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science — and its Limitations Martin Riexinger 12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival Kenneth Garden Indices
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Brill Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rāwandī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought
Book SynopsisFreethinkers of Medieval Islam focuses on the express denial of prophecy in the medieval Islamicate world. The development of Islamic freethinking is analyzed against the background of the significance of prophets in Islam. In her book, Sarah Stroumsa examines the image of freethinkers, and the repercussions of freethinking on Muslim, Jewish and Christian medieval thought. She argue that freethinking, as exemplified by figures like Ibn al-Rāwandī (9th C.) and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (10th C.), was a pivotal phenomenon, that had a major impact on the development of Islamic thought. In the present context of religious violence carried out in the name of Islam, this book highlights the striking existence of independent freethinking in the world of Islam.
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