Islamic and Arab philosophy Books

Book SynopsisThe volume contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/925), who is well known to have vigorously promoted the teaching of Muʿtazilī theology throughout Būyid territories and beyond. The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms. They consist of two manuscripts for each of the two texts—testimony to the impact of al-Ṣāḥib’s education policy on the contemporaneous Jewish community in Cairo. The longer treatise of al-Ṣāḥib of ca. 350/960, possibly his Kitāb Nahj al-sabīl fī uṣūl al-dīn, appears to be the earliest Muʿtazilī work preserved among the Jewish community. The second, briefer treatise also contains a commentary by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī (d. 415/1025).Trade Review"This is certainly a book of interest for the students of Mutazilite theology as well as for those interested in the cultural context and content of the era of the Buyid Dynasty." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqamāt, Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat’s modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume’s range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson’s scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner.Trade Review"Enthralling and titillating, this is an impressive compilation of papers written in honor of Everett K. Rowson, covering a suprisingly vast number o fields, in perception heretic, challenging, and informative, positively adding to the extant literature." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Contributors Editors’ Preface Tabula Gratulatoria Publications of Everett K. Rowson From Breath to Soul: The Quranic Word Rūḥ and its (Mis)interpretations Sarra Tlili The Wiles of Women, The Guile of Men: Re-reading Kayd in Sūrat Yūsuf Zainab Mahmood Some Ḥanbalī Views on Secret Marriage Susan A. Spectorsky Anta anā wa-anā minka (“You are me, and I am from you”): A Quasi-Nuṣayrī Fragment on the Intellect in the Early Ismāʿīlī Treatise Kitāb Taʾwīl ḥurūf al-muʿjam David Hollenberg The Crucified Speaks: ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm on his Day-Long Exposure at Nishapur David Larsen Man Is Not the Only Speaking Animal: Thresholds and Idiom in al-Jāḥiẓ Jeannie Miller Beyond the Known Limits: Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī’s Chapter on “Intermedial” Poetry Lara Harb Foul Whisperings: Madness and Poetry in Arabic Literary History Geert Jan van Gelder Music for the Body, Music for the Soul Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt Zoroaster’s Many Languages Kevin van Bladel Song and Punishment Dwight F. Reynolds Fathers and Husbands Adam Talib Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought Tara Stephan ‘The Mosul Stand-up, or a Riff on a Stiff’: al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāma of Mosul Michael Cooperson An Edition of al-Hamadhānī’s al-Maqāma al-Mawṣiliyya Bilal Orfali Sucker of One’s Mother’s Clitoris: A Study of a Classical Arabic Insult John Nawas Commentators, Collators, and Copyists: Interpreting Manuscript Variation in the Exordium of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt Matthew L. Keegan Going the Extra Mayl: Two Texts on Medieval Dynamics in the Islamic World Jon McGinnis “Extremely Beautiful and Extremely Long”: al-Qīrāṭī’s Exuberant Letter from the Year 761/1360 Thomas Bauer Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice: Political Culture and the Patronage of Science and Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean Ali Humayun Akhtar Contextualizing Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Views on the Family, Marriage, and Divorce Kenneth M. Cuno “Go directly home with decorum”: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912 Marilyn Booth When Jews Attack: Toward a Social Psychology of Inter-Communal Violence in Yemen Mark S. Wagner Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Resistant Literary Modernity Hala Halim Securing Consent: Islamic Development and the Movement to Transform Egypt James Toth Index

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet eine textkritische Edition von Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandīs (st. 619/1222) medizinischem Nahrungsmittellexikon Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba mit deutscher Übersetzung und einer Untersuchung zu den Inhalten des Werks und seinem Kontext innerhalb der arabischen Medizinliteratur. This book offers a critical edition of Najīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī’s (d. 619/1222) medical food encyclopedia Kitāb al-Aghḏiya wa-l-ashriba along with a German translation and a study on the contents of the work and its context within Arabic medical literature.Trade ReviewWinner of 26th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran 2019. "I want to emphasize the importance of this translation that makes this work available to scholars of medical history who are interested in studying Arabic medicine but regrettably do not read Arabic. This translation will offer them an access to Arabic medicine that played an essential role in the development of medicine from Greek civilization to the early modern period in Europe." - Ayman Yasin Atat, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/3 (2019) "With her edition, translation and study of al-Samarqandī’s Kitāb al-Aghdhiya wa’l-ashriba, Juliane Müller has produced a very fine scholarly work which excels at virtually all levels — linguistic, historical, technical and material. Her edition of the Arabic text is meticulous, her German translation ingenious, and her various explorations of sometimes uncharted territories are extremely detailed without ever losing sight of the bigger picture. [...] It is to be hoped that Juliane Müller will continue in the future to gift us with many more contributions of such sublime quality." - Oliver Kahl, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 63/2 (2018) "Muller's edition [...] is a most useful addition to scholarship in this field. A wonderful book, a meticulous piece of scholarship, and a rich source of information on a variety of subjects." - Remke Kruk, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 75/1-2 (2018)

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Book SynopsisIn Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran Ata Anzali and S.M. Hadi Gerami offer a critical edition of what is arguably the most erudite and extensive critique of philosophy from the Safavid period. The editors’ extensive introduction offers an in-depth analysis that places the work within the broader framework of Safavid intellectual and social history.Trade Review“The quality of editing of the Arabic text, by Muhammad Hadi Gerami, is to be praised. He has done a tremendous amount of work to make the text accessible to a wider readership. The indexes are prepared meticulously and facilitate use of the edited text. All in all, Gerami’s edition of Ḥikmat al-ʿārifīn is a major contribution to the history of intellectual and political life in Safavid Iran.” Kioumars Ghereghlou, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 140/2 (2020)Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration Editors’ Introduction  Philosophy and Philosophers: Hapless Victims or Elite Contenders?  Muḥammad-Ṭāhir Qummī  Hikmat al-ʿĀrifīn  The Critical Edition Bibliography Plates Critical Edition of Hikmat al-ʿĀrifīn

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Book SynopsisIn ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnānī’s (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and as a microhistory of the complex relationships between a Sufi master, Persian elites and Mongol rulers during the Ilkhanid period; Chapter 2 contains a study on the phenomenon of Arabic-Persian diglossia in Simnānī’s written work, arguing for its socio-religious function; in Chapters 3 to 6 the critical editions of two important, interrelated treatises by Simnānī are presented; finally, Chapter 7 offers the first full-length annotated translation of a long work by Simnānī ever to appear in a Western language.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction  Simnānī and the Kubrawiyya  The Criticism of Ibn ʿArabī  The Current State of Research  Organization and Objectives of this Book 1 Simnānī’s Biography: A Window into Iranian Society under the Ilkhanids  Background  Youth  Metanoia  The Return to Simnān  The Meeting with Šaraf al-Dīn al-Ḥanawayh  The Departure to Baghdad and Imprisonment at the Court of Arġūn  Back to Simnān. The Trips to Iraq and the Ḥiǧāz  Ṣūfīābād Ḫudādād: Simnānī’s Own Dār al-Hiǧra in the Heart of the Ilkhanate  Mastery, Advanced Years and Death 2 The Relationship between al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid and the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid   Introductory Remarks   Background   Section One: Descriptive Analysis of the Differences between al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Two: The Dynamics of Translation: Audiences, Authorship and Divine Inspiration in the Composition of al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Three: Observations on the Structure of Some of Simnānī’s Most Relevant Works   Section Four: Observations on the Persian Translation of the ʿUrwa li-ahl al-ḫalwa wa al-ǧalwa 3 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid  Foreword   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 4 Established Text of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid 5 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid  Foreword   A Note on Transcription   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 6 Established Text of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid 7 The Inspiration Refuting the Rebel’s Sophistry (Translation of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid)   A Note on the Translation   The Inspiration Refuting The Rebel’s Sophistry Appendix:Supplement to the Catalogue of Simnānī’s Written Works Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of these translations.

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Book SynopsisThe late Professor Hossein Ziai’s interests focused on the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition. Dedicated to his memory, this volume deals with the post-Avicennan philosophical tradition in Iran, and in particular the Illuminationist school and later philosophers, such as those associated with the School of Isfahan, who were fundamentally influenced by it. The focus of various chapters is on translations, editions, and close expositions of rationalist works in areas such as epistemology, logic and metaphysics rather than mysticism more generally, and also on specific texts rather than themes or studies of individual philosophers. The purpose of the volume is to introduce new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy. Various texts in this volume have not been previously translated nor have they been the subject of significant Western scholarship.Trade Review"This volume delivers what the editors promise at the outset: to introduce “new texts into the modern canon of Islamic and Iranian philosophy” (p. ix). It puts together scholarly editions of many texts which have not been available to Western readers, along with highly engaging introductions, helpful notes, and detailed bibliographies. For this, the editors and contributors deserve our gratitude." - Rasoul Namazi in Iranian Studies (2020)Table of ContentsPreface Note on Contributors I. Introduction 1. Ali Gheissari, “Hossein Ziai, Professor of Philosophy and Iranian Studies: A Bio Bibliographical Introduction” 2. John Walbridge, “Hossein Ziai and Suhrawardī Studies” II. Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination 3. John Walbridge, “Illuminationist Manuscripts: Rediscovery and Reception of Suhrawardī” 4. Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Some Observations on the Kashf al-Ghitā’ li Ikhwān al-Safā.” Translation of Kashf al-Ghiṭā’ by John Walbridge 5. John Walbridge, “Suhrawardī’s Creed of the Sages” 6. Malihe Karbassian, “The Meaning and Etymology of Barzakh in Illuminationist Philosophy” 7. Nasrollah Pourjavady, “Concept of Sakina in Suhrawardī” III. The Illuminationists or Suhrawardī’s Commentators 8. Ahmed Alwishah, “Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents” 9. Y. Tzvi Langermann, “Ithbāt al-Mabda’ by Saʿd ibn Manṣūr ibn Kammūna: A Philosophically Oriented Monotheistic Ethic” 10. L.W.Cornelis van Lit and Christian Lange, “Constructing a World of Its Own: A Translation of the Chapter on the World of Image from Shahrazurīi’s Rasā’il al-Shajarah al-Ilāhīiyya” 11. Reza Pourjavady, “Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī’s “Postscript” to His Tablets of ʿImād al-Dīn and Najm Dīn Nayrīzī’s Commentary on It” IV. The Wider Tradition 12. Khaled El-Rouayheb, “Takmīil al-Mantiq: A Sixteenth Century Arabic Manual on Logic” 13. Charles Butterworth, Fārābī’s Purposes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Avicenna’s ‘Eastern’ Philosophy” 14. Jon McGinnis, “Mind the Gap: The Reception of Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space” 15. Eiyad S. al-Kutubi, “Translation of Mullā Sadrā’s The Traveler’s Provision (Zād al-Musāfier)” Index

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Book SynopsisThe 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, ʿUbaidallāh’s Arabic commentary is a comprehensive and in many ways unique piece of scientific writing that moreover promotes a psychological understanding of physical illness. Oliver Kahl’s present book offers a critical Arabic edition with annotated English translation of ʿUbaidallāh’s work on apparent death, framed by a detailed introductory study and extensive glossaries covering all relevant terms; for comparative purposes, the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of the lost Greek prototype are presented in an appendix.Trade Review"K. hat mit seiner philologisch soliden Edition, die durch ausführliche Indizes bereichert ist, ein frühes und wertvolles Zeugnis der gräko-arabischen Komponente der arabisch-islamischen Kultur zugänglich gemacht...Darüber hinaus enthält der Kommentar des ʿUbaidallāh eine Fülle interessanter Einzelheiten zu Zeitgenossen und weitere persönliche Reminiszenzen, auch zur eigenen ärztlichen Praxis." Gotthard Strohmaier, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/4–5 (2019): 351–381Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction  1 ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ  2 The Book on Apparent Death  Plates Text and Translation Bibliography Indices Introduction to the Indices Index of Medicine and Pharmacy Index of People and Places Index of Work Titles Index of Miscellaneous Terms Index of Botanical Names Appendix: The Pseudo-Galenic Treatise  1 The Arabic Recension  2 The Hebrew Recension (by Gerrit Bos)

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrʼs (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers provides the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazīrʼs thought and its role in the “Sunnisation of the Zaydiyya”, emphasizing its significance for conflicts between schools of thought and law beyond the Yemeni context. Contrasting Ibn al-Wazīrʼs works with those of his Zaydi contemporary Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā, Damaris Wilmers offers a study of a number of heretofore unedited texts from 9th/15th century Yemen when Zaydi identity was challenged by an increasing theological and legal diversity. She shows how Ibn al-Wazīr, who has been classed with different schools, actually de-emphasized school affiliation and developed an integrative approach based on a unique theory of knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Life and Intellectual Environment of Ibn al-Wazīr and Ibn al-Murtaḍā  1 Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) Biography  2 Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā (d. 840/1436) as a Scholar  3 Conclusion 2 Ibn al-Wazīr’s Works  1 Al-Amr bi-l-ʿuzla  2 Al-ʿAwāṣim wa-l-awāṣim  3 Al-Āyāt al-mubīnāt  4 Āyāt al-aḥkām al-sharʿiyya  5 Al-Burhān al-qāṭiʿ fī ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ  6 Al-Ḥusām al-mashhūr  7 Al-Istiẓhār bi-l-dalīl al-samʿī fī ʿadam wuqūʿ al-ṭalāq al-bidʿī  8 Īthār al-ḥaqq ʿalā l-khalq  9 Kitāb al-Qawāʿid  10 Kitāb fī l-tafsīr  11 Majmaʿ al-ḥaqāʾiq wa-l-raqāʾiq fī mamādiḥ rabb al-khalāʾiq  12 Manẓūma shiʿriyya fī uṣūl al-fiqh  13 Masāʾil arbaʿa tataʿallaq bi-l-muqallad wa-l-mustaftī  14 Masʾalat ikhtilāf al-Muʿtazila wa-l-Ashʿariyya fī ḥamd Allāh ʿalā l-īmān  15 Masāʾil mustakhrajāt  16 Masāʾil shāfiyāt  17 Masāʾil sharīfa  18 Mukhtaṣar mufīd fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth  19 Muthīr al-aḥzān fī wadāʿ shahr Ramaḍān  20 Nuṣrat al-aʿyān  21 Qubūl al-bushrā bi-l-taysīr lil-yusrā  22 Al-Rawḍ al-bāsim  23 Al-Taʾdīb al-malakūtī  24 Taḥrīr al-kalām fī masʾalat al-ruʾya  25 Takhṣīṣ āyāt al-jumʿa  26 Tanqīḥ al-anẓār fī maʿrifat ʿulūm al-āthār  27 Tarjīḥ asālīb al-Qurʾān ʿalā asālīb al-Yūnān  28 Additional Works Ascribed to Ibn al-Wazīr 3 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Epistemological Thought  1 Definitions of Knowledge  2 Definitions of the Means to Possess Knowledge  3 The Proof of God’s Existence (ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ)  4 The Argument from the Absence of Evidence (al-istidlāl bi-l-ʿadam)  5 Conclusion 4 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Theological Thought  1 God’s Wisdom (ḥikma) as the Key to Harmonization  2 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Names (asmāʾ) and Attributes (ṣifāt)  3 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Will (irāda)  4 Harmonized Doctrine: Human Actions (afʿāl al-ʿibād) and Free Will (ikhtiyār)  5 Conclusion 5 The Structure of Legal Authority in Ibn al-Wazīr’s Thought  1 The Theory of Infallibilism and the Probability of Ijtihād  2 The Possibility of Ijtihād and the Existence of Mujtahids  3 Taqlīd and Concepts of Following  4 The Requirements (shurūṭ) for Ijtihād  5 Divisibility (tajazzuʾ) of Ijtihād and the Discerning Student (al-ṭālib al-mumayyiz)  6 Extrapolation of Principles (takhrīj)  7 The Muqallid’s Commitment to a Legal School (iltizām)  8 Conclusion 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index of Pre-Modern Authors Index of Geographical Names Index of Pre-Modern Books Index of Quran Citations Index of Arabic Terms

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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of Book X of the Latin version of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The text is accompanied by a French translation and explanatory notes, and is preceded by a study of the manuscript tradition and two studies on the Commentary itself. Cette première édition critique de la version latine du Commentaire d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque (Livre X), accompagnée d’une traduction française annotée, est précédée de l’examen de la tradition manuscrite du texte et de deux études consacrée à ce Commentaire.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Introduction Le Livre X du Commentaire moyen À l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  1 Le dossier textuel  2 Les témoins latins  3 Le classement des témoins  4 Les principes de l’ édition du livre X du commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  5 Divisions du livre X du Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Comment lire le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque ?  1 Poétique du talḫīṣ dans le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  2 Averroès face à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Conspectus siglorum Texte latin et traduction française annotée Bibliographie Index nominum antiquorum et mediaevalium Index nominum recentiorum Index verborum potiorum Index verborum latinorum potiorum in libro decimo Commentarii Averrois in Ethica Nicomachea

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Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition  Ryan Szpiech Preface Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures  Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann Introduction Hic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research Revisited  Silke Ackermann Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya  Johannes Thomann The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary  Josefina Rodriguez Arribas Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal  Emilia Calvo From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe  Flora Vafea Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary  Petra G. Schmidl A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends  Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma Saphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus  Miguel Forcada Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments  Laura Fernández Fernández Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes  John Davis European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List  David A. King Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method  Taro Mimura Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks  Günther Oestmann Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona  Azucena Hernández A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes  Giorgio Strano Epilogue Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā  Flora Vafea Index

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Book SynopsisThemistius’ (4th century CE) paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 is the earliest surviving complete account of this seminal work. Despite leaving no identifiable mark in Late Antiquity, Themistius’ paraphrase played a dramatic role in shaping the metaphysical landscape of Medieval Arabic and Hebrew philosophy and theology. Lost in Greek, and only partially surviving in Arabic, its earliest full version is in the form of a 13th century Hebrew translation. In this volume, Yoav Meyrav offers a new critical edition of the Hebrew translation and the Arabic fragments of Themistius’ paraphrase, accompanied by detailed philological and philosophical analyses. In doing so, he provides a solid foundation for the study of one of the most important texts in the history of Aristotelian metaphysics.Trade Review"Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment. However, there is much more here than philology—Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek—as well as a significant contribution to translation studies. Meyrav takes responsibility for advancing the appreciation of the philosophical content of the paraphrase. Moreover, given that the Greek original is lost, he senses and meets an obligation to classicists to squeeze what he can from the text that is relevant to their discipline, notably regarding the genre of the paraphrase." - Tzvi Langermann, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020 “Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment.[…] Meyrav has set an academic standard.” Y. Tzvi Langermann in Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.06.19/[09/08/2021, 15:39:18]Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction  1 Overview  2 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 before Themistius  3 Themistius on Metaphysics 12: Context and Scholarship  4 Themistius’ Paraphrase of Metaphysics 12 in the Arabic and Hebrew Traditions  5 Looking Forward 1 The Textual Tradition  1 Overview  2 The Arabic Textual Tradition  3 The Hebrew Textual Tradition  4 Moshe Finzi’s Latin Translation  5 Principles of the Present Edition 2 Historical and Methodological Aspects of Themistius as Paraphrast of Metaphysics 12  1 Overview  2 The Aims and Methodologies of Themistius’ Paraphrases  3 Examples  4 Conclusion Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12: Parallel Hebrew/Arabic Edition Abbreviations  1 Hebrew Sources  2 Arabic Sources  3 Misc. Text and Translation Commentary Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Conclusion Appendix A: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn’s Arabic Translation of Metaphysics 2 and Its Abridgment in MS Ḥikma 6: Text and Notes Appendix B: Two Versions of the Hebrew Translation of the Themistius Quotations in Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics—A Preliminary Edition Appendix C: Matter and Element—Case Study Hebrew–Arabic Lexicon Arabic–Hebrew Lexicon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLight upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering brings together studies that explore the richness of Islamic intellectual life in the pre-modern period. Leading scholars around the world present nineteen studies that explore diverse areas of Islamic Studies, in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher: Professor Dr. Gerhard Bowering (Yale University). The volume includes contributions in four main areas: (1) Quran and Early Islam; (2) Sufism, Shiʿism, and Esotericism; (3) Philosophy; (4) Literature and Culture. These areas reflect the enormous breadth of Professor Bowering’s contributions to the field over a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. Contributors: Hussein Ali Abdulsater, Mushegh Asatryan, Shahzad Bashir, Jonathan Brockopp, Yousef Casewit, Jamal Elias, Janis Esots, Li Guo, Matthew Ingalls, Tariq Jaffer, Mareike Koertner, Joseph Lumbard, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Mahan Mirza, Bilal Orfali, Gabriel Reynolds, Nada Saab, Amina Steinfels & Alexander Treiger.Trade Review“It is an impressive collection of essays that pays real tribute to a great scholar and teacher.” Sotiris S. Livas, Ionian University in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).Table of ContentsPreface Publications by Gerhard Bowering Notes on Contributors PART 1 Quran and Early Islam Scholarship and Folklore? A Comparison of the Earliest Sources: ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. al-Munabbih (Mareike Koertner) The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context (Jonathan Brockopp) Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran (Gabriel Said Reynolds) The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology (Hussein Ali Abdulsater) Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm: A Compendium of Quranic Quotations Attributed to the Fatimid Secretary Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣayrafī (d. 542/1147) (Bilal W. Orfali) PART 2 Sufism, Shi’ism, and Esotericism Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd: A Sufī Treatise Attributed to Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899) (Nada Saab) Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century: Isḥāq al-Aḥmar al-Nakhaʿī (d. 286/899) and His Writings (Mushegh Asatryan) The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya): Cosmology and Time in the Writings of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī (d. 668/1269) (Yousef Casewit) The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams (Janis Esots) Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi’s Anatolia (Jamal J. Elias) India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi (Shahzad Bashir) PART 3 Philosophy Knowledge on Display: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Universal Compendium (Amina M. Steinfels) Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts (Tariq Jaffer) Believing Is Seeing: The Universe in the Eyes of al-Bīrūnī and Ibn Sīnā (Mahan Mirza) Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Soteriology (Alexander Treiger) Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing (Joseph Lumbard) PART 4 Literature and Culture Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī (Matthew Ingalls) Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo: Ibn al-Ḥājj on al-Samāʿ, To Sing or Not: The Case against Music (Li Guo) Index of Arabic and Persian Term Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Mise en Scène Introduction  1 Contours of a Conflict  2 Why the Darʾ taʿāruḍ?  3 About This Work Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation? 1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya  1 Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation  2 The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law  3 Early Theological Reflection and Contention  4 The Muʿtazila  5 Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal  6 The Miḥna and Its Aftermath  7 Nascent Ashʿarī Thought and the Early Kalām  8 Philosophy  9 The New Kalām and Subsequent Developments  10 Kalām and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazālī 2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile  1 The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661–728/1263–1328)  2 Intellectual Profile  3 Character and Contemporary Reception  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Works  5 The Historiography of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ: Ibn Taymiyya’s Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited  6 The Darʾ taʿāruḍ in Context: Ibn Taymiyya’s View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation 3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited  2 The Result of Figurative Interpretation (taʾwīl)  3 Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Project: Refuting the Universal Rule  5 On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation  6 Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts  7 Not “Scriptural vs. Rational” but “Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated”  8 Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule  9 On the Universal Rule’s Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology 4 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Manqūl, or What Is Revelation  1 Taʾwīl and the Meaning of Qurʾān 3:7  2 The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya’s “Contextual Taʾwīl”  3 The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention (ʿurf)  4 Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift  5 A Case Study: The Terms wāḥid, tawḥīd, and tarkīb 5 Ṣarīḥ al-Maʿqūl, or What Is Reason?  1 What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya’s Account of Reality  2 How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge  3 The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fī al-adhhān?  4 The Structure of Reason 6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyās al-ghāʾib ʿalā al-shāhid  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes  3 Concluding Reflections Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Glossary of Arabic Terms Glossary of Proper Names Bibliography Index of Arabic Passages Index of Ḥadīth Index of People and Places Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisAdab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Adab is etiquette, ethics, and literature. It is also a creative synthesis, a relationship within a configuration. What became of it, towards modernity ? The question of the "civilising process" (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story. During the modern period, maintaining one's identity while entering into what was termed "civilisation" (al-tamaddun) soon became a leitmotiv. A debate on what was or what should be culture, ethics, and norms in Middle Eastern societies accompanied this evolution. The resilient notion of adab has been in competition with the Salafist focus on mores (akhlāq). Still, humanism, poetry, and transgression are constants in the history of adab. Contributors: Francesca Bellino, Elisabetta Benigni, Michel Boivin, Olivier Bouquet, Francesco Chiabotti, Stéphane Dudoignon, Anne-Laure Dupont, Stephan Guth, Albrecht Hofheinz, Katharina Ivanyi, Felix Konrad, Corinne Lefevre, Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Astrid Meier, Nabil Mouline, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Stefan Reichmuth, Iris Seri-Hersch, Chantal Verdeil, Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Part 1: New Formulations of adab in Modern Islam (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Century)  1 Adab, akhlāq and Early Modern Ottoman Paraenesis: Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya  Katharina Ivanyi  2 Mughal Early Modernity and Royal ādāb: Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī’s Sufi Voice of Reform  Corinne Lefèvre  3 Adab and Scholarship Mirrored by Law: Reading Ibn ʿĀbidīn’s Treatise Shifāʾ al-ʿalīl wa-ball al-ghalīl fī ḥukm al-waṣiyya bi-l-khatmāt wa-l-tahālīl  Astrid Meier  4 Arabic Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedism between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Forms, Functions, Intersections of Adab and Modernity  Francesca Bellino Part 2: Translations and Mediations in the Time of European Encounters (Nineteenth Century)  5 When Il PrincipeTravelled to Egypt: Translating Machiavelli in Nineteenth Century Cairo and the Cultural Politics of the Nation  Elisabetta Benigni  6 Changing Table Manners at the Court of the Khedives: Serving up a New adab for the Elite  Felix Konrad  7 Mirzā Qalīc Beg (1855–1929) and the Renewal of adabin a Peripheral Province of British India  Michel Boivin  8 Les nouveaux usages de l’adab: belles-lettres, bonnes manières et pratique des langues chez les représentants de la Porte ottomane (XVIIIe–XXe siècle)  Olivier Bouquet  9 Un adab de classes moyennes. Normes sociales, culture et littérature dans la production réformiste arabe au temps de Jurjī Zaydān (1861–1914)  Anne-Laure Dupont  10 Adab as the Art to Make the Right Choice between Local Tradition and Euromania: a Comparative Analysis of Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī!(1859) and Aḥmed Mid­ḥat’s Felāṭūn Beğ ile Rāḳım Efendī (1875), or on the Threshold of Nationalizing Middle Eastern Culture   Stephan Guth Part 3: Education and Emotions in the “Civilising Process” in the Middle East  11 Manfalūṭī (1876–1924), l’amour pur, et la critique sentimentale de la civilisation   Samuela Pagani  12 Entre « civilisation » et distinction, l’adab des missionnaires catholiques au XIXe siècle  Chantal Verdeil  13 Feminine or Masculine Adab? Education, Etiquette, and Ethics in Egypt in the 1900s–1920s  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen  14 Civilising Teachers, Modernising the Sudanese: Colonial Education and “Character Training” in Postwar Sudan, 1945–1953  Iris Seri-Hersch  15 Manquer d’adab ou de taʿāruf dans l’Iran contemporain : deux enjeux différents ?   Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan Part 4: Reformulating adab and Civilisation in Contemporary Islam (Nineteenth-Twentieth Century)  16 Un manuel d’adab et d’akhlāq pour les temps modernes: les Jawāmiʿ al-ādāb fī akhlāq al-anjāb de Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī (1866–1914)   Luca Patrizi  17 Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl al-Nabahānī (m. 1932), adīb soufi au temps de la Réforme   Francesco Chiabotti  18 A Surrogate Aristocracy? Sufi Adab, Modernity, Rurality, and Civilisation in Ex-Soviet Central Asia  Stéphane A. Dudoignon  19 Arabic Writing and Islamic Identity in Colonial Yorubaland: Ilọrin and Western Nigeria, ca. 1900–1950  Stefan Reichmuth  20 La politique du commandement du bien et de l’interdiction du mal en Arabie saoudite   Nabil Mouline  21 Rāqī bi-akhlāqī. The Moral Turn—From Sufi Sheikhs to Facebook Groups?  Albrecht Hofheinz Index

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Book SynopsisMaqālīd 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 dedicated to the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ, who ruled over Shiraz and its neighbouring regions from 759/1358 to 786/1384. The present volume contains a critical edition of Maqālīd al-ʿulūm based on its three extant manuscripts. In the introduction, the editors review previous scholarship on the text, present an overview of patronage at the court of Shāh Shujāʿ and identify some of the sources used by the author of the work. They suggest that the work in its structure mirrors Abū ʿAbdullāh Khwārazmī’s Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm, completed in 366/976.Trade Review"Die Edition mit ihrem Apparat ist sehr schön gestaltet und bietet einen guten Ansatzinpunkt, um die Maqālīd al-ʿulūm in die wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Diskussion einzubinden. Insgesamt. Insgesamt handeltes sich um eine sehr erfreuliche Ergänzung der vorhandenen Literatur zur islamischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte." Rüdiger Lohlker, in Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 111 (2021)Table of ContentsEnglish Section Acknowledgements Introduction 1 A Review of the Previous Scholarship 2 Patronage at the Court of Shāh Shujāʿ 3 The Structure and the Sources of the Work 4 Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm as the Model for Maqālīd al-ʿulūm 5 Some Serendipitous Knowledge of the Author 6 Maqālīd al-ʿulūm and the Taʿrīfāt: Similarities and Differences 7 The Question of the Reception of the Work 8 The Present Edition Appendix 1: Other Works in Prose Dedicated to Shāh Shujāʿ or His Viziers Appendix 2: Sources of the Maqālīd al-ʿulūm Bibliography Arabic Section Table of Contents Maqālīd al-ʿulūm Index of Technical Terms

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Book SynopsisPhilosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazālī’s role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashʿarī doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashʿarī tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele.Trade Review“Philosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical Ashʿarī theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. […]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-Rāzī to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical Ashʿarī kalām right across the Muslim world.” Kayhan Ali Özaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021)Table of ContentsContributors Introduction  Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele Post-Ghazālian Theology What were the Lessons to be Learned from al-Ghazālī?  Ulrich Rudolph Al-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām Work Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century  Ayman Shihadeh Le commentaire à la sūrate al-Aʿlā attribué à Avicenne Une épître de Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Meryem Sebti Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Platonist Account of the Essence of Time  Peter Adamson and Andreas Lammer The Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) From Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Fedor Benevich Causing an Essence Notes on the Concept of Jaʿl al-Māhiyya, from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī to Mullā Ṣadrā  Bilal Ibrahim Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (ta‌ʾwīl) of God’s Attributes  Jon Hoover Continuing Conversations Late Sunni Kalām-Theology’s Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy  Aaron Spevack Putting Criticisms against al-Ghazālī in Perspective New Materials on the Interface between Law, Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and Almohad al-Andalus (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd and al-Qurṭubī)  Xavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-Ruano Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era  Jan Thiele The Legacy of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī His Works and His Students  Reza Pourjavady Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens The Two “Taḥqīqs” in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1019/1690)  Harith Ramli The Mawāqif of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī in India  Asad Q. Ahmed Index

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Book SynopsisIslamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue. Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Transliteration, Style, and Dates 1 Introduction  Liana Saif and Francesca Leoni Part 1 Occult Theories: Inception and Reception 2 The Three Divisions of Arabic Magic  Charles Burnett 3 New Light on Early Arabic Awfāq Literature  Bink Hallum 4 A Study on the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b)  Liana Saif 5 Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Sirr al-maktūm  Michael Noble 6 Lettrism and History in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī’s Naẓm al-sulūk fī musāmarat al-mulūk  Noah Gardiner 7 Kāshifī’s Asrār-i qāsimī: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife  Maria Subtelny Part 2 Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action 8 The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences  Jean-Charles Coulon 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemālpaşazāde’s (d. 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism  Matthew Melvin-Koushki 10 Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield  Maryam Ekhtiar and Rachel Parikh 11 Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAlī in Southeast Asia  Farouk Yahya 12 A Stamped Talisman  Francesca Leoni 13 Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s “New Turkey”  Christiane Gruber 14 Postscript: Cutting Ariadne’s Thread, or How to Think Otherwise in the Maze  Travis Zadeh Index

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Book SynopsisThe original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the book series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati, who was active as a translator of scientific texts in Rome in the late thirteenth century, where his colleague Zeraḥyah Ḥen had completed a translation of the same Maimonidean text in 1277, only a few years earlier. Nathan aimed to provide the general reader with a translation that was easier to understand than Zeraḥyah's translation. The present critical edition of Nathan’s translation is primarily based on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1174, and not on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1173, used by Suessmann Muntner for his edition in 1959, as this copy suffers from many mistakes and corruptions.Trade Review"...an exemplary ongoing series..." - Maud Kozodoy, in: Speculum 96 (April 2021)Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Sigla and Abbreviations Medical Aphorisms: Hebrew Translation (Nathan ha-Meʾati) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of the Summa Alexandrinorum, that is the medieval Arabo-Latin version of an Arabic abridgment of the Nicomachean Ethics. The text is accompanied by a French translation, and is preceded by an analysis of the manuscript tradition and a study on the origins of the Summa. Cette première édition critique de la Summa Alexandrinorum, version arabo-latine médiévale d’un abrégé arabe de l’Éthique à Nicomaque, accompagnée d’une traduction française, est précédée de l’examen de la tradition manuscrite du texte et d’une étude sur les origines de la Summa.Table of ContentsRemarques préliminaires Introduction 1 La tradition de la Summa Alexandrinorum  1 La reconstitution de la tradition de la Summa Alexandrinorum par Douglas M. Dunlop  2 La critique de Manfred Ullmann et l’ origine arabe de la Summa Alexandrinorum  3 L’ Iḫtiṣār al-Iskandarānīyīn : sa traduction en latin, et son adaptation en hébreu 2 Les fragments et témoignages non latins de l’ Iḫtiṣār al-Iskandarānīyīn  1 Les fragments arabes  2 Le fragment syriaque conservé dans le Hewath Hekhmtho (La Crème de la Sagesse) de Bar Hebraeus (m. 1286)  3 Les témoignages conservés dans le Shelemut ha-maʿasim (La Perfection des actions) de Shem Ṭov b. Falaquera (m. 1290) Conclusions des chapitres 1 et 2 3 Les principes de la présente édition de la Summa Alexandrinorum  1 Les témoins latins  2 Description sommaire des témoins manuscrits  3 Le classement des témoins et l’ établissement du stemma  4 Les principes de l’ édition de la Summa Alexandrinorum 4 Tables de concordances Conspectus siglorum Texte et traduction Annexe : Les témoignages arabes et syriaque de l’ Iḫtiṣār al-Iskandarānīyīn Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIslamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm offers a highly relevant and needed introduction to the various interpretations and applications of the trusteeship ethical theory as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). يُقدم كتاب "الأخلاق الإسلامية ونسق الائتمانية" دراسات نقدية مقارنة للنظرية الأخلاقية الإسلامية المعاصرة كما طورها الفيلسوف المغربي طه عبد الرحمن (و. 1944م)، وتتميز هذه الدراسات بأنها تأتي من حقول وتخصصات متعددة.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Style, Transliteration and Dates Notes on Contributors Introduction: Modern Arab-Islamic Scholarship on Ethics A Reflective Contextualization  Mohammed Hashas and Mutaz al-Khatib A Bibliographical Sketch of Taha Abderrahmane Part 1 The Trusteeship Paradigm and Theoretical Ethics: Legal Thought, Political Authority, and Sufism 1 The Trusteeship Paradigm The Formation and Reception of a Philosophy  Mohammed Hashas 2 Taha Abderrahmane and Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī Comparative Reflections on Legal Thought and Ethics  Eva Kepplinger 3 سؤال الأخلاق بين الدين والعقل المجرد علي عزت بيجوفيتش وطه عبد الرحمن نموذجًا  مصطفى أمقدوف 4 الاعتراف في المجال العام نقد ائتماني لمفهوم فوكو ”الاعتراف والسلطة“  عصام عيدو 5 الممارسة السياسية الديانية النقد التزكوي والبديل الائتماني  عادل الطاهري 6 Qurʾanic Values and Modernity in Contemporary Islamic Ethics Taha Abderrahmane and Fazlur Rahman in Conversation  Ramon Harvey 7 The Modern Mysticism of Taha Abderrahmane  Harald Viersen Part 2 The Trusteeship Paradigm and Applied Ethics 8 The Anthropology of Islam in Light of the Trusteeship Paradigm  Amin El-Yousfi 9 The Trusteeship Paradigm in the Social Sciences Moral Agency as an Islamic Ethical Turn  Mohamed Amine Brahimi 10 ”الائتمانية“ نظريةً لحل المعضلات الأخلاقية العلمية البيئة والموت الرحيم نموذجاً  محمد أوريا 11 التقويم الأخلاقي للعلمانية بين طه عبد الرحمن وطلال أسد الأسرة الحديثة نموذجًا  عبد المنعم الشقيري 12 الائتمانية في مجال الإعلام والاتصال الإمكانات والحدود  هشام المكي 13 الحوار بين الائتمانية والأخلاق العالمية مقاربة تحليلية مقارنة  آسيا شكيرب Index الفهرس

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Book SynopsisThe Conclusive Argument of God is the master work of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the 18th century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical, and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shāh Walī Allāh develops a cohesive schema of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time. This work provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period and is still evoked by numerous contemporary Islamic movements.Trade Review'With this translation, one of the most important texts for the study of Islamic intellectual life in the 18th century Indian subcontinent is made available in a carefully prepared and well annotated translation.' Sabine Schmidtke, MESA Bulletin, 1997. 'Professor Marcia Hermansen has presented both an illuminating contribution to eighteenth-century Indo Muslim ṣūfī studies and a thoroughgoing analysis of a major figure from the period. Given the stiltedly idiosyncratic, complexly recondite nature of Shāh Walī Allāh's Arabic prose style, the translator succeeded remarkably well in rendering the next into easily readable English.' Leonard Lewisohn, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2000.

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Book SynopsisModern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. تمكنت التكنولوجيا الحديثة في المجالات الطبية والحيوية من إحداث ثورة في مجال الرعاية الصحية عندما يكون المريض على مشارف نهاية العُمْر. فأصبح من الممكن الآن «هندسة» بعض جوانب مرحلة الاحتضار، وذلك بإدارة الأعراض الجسدية المصاحبة ومحاولة تأخير أو تعجيل حدث الوفاة. وقد أثار هذا النوع من التدخلات الطبية أسئلة وإشكالات معقدة حول عدد من المفاهيم الأخلاقية ضاربة الجذور في التراث الإسلامي خاصة، وفي الإرث الإنساني عامة، كمفاهيم: الحياة الطيبة وجودة الحياة والألم والمعاناة والميتة الصالحة. تقدم البحوث المنشورة في هذا الكتاب نماذج لكيفية معالجة هذه الأسئلة والإشكالات المتعددة الجوانب من خلال النظر في عدد من العلوم الإسلامية والمجالات المعرفية ذات الصلة. المساهمون حامد آرضائي، وأسماء أسدي، وبياته أنعم، وعاصم پادلا، وهانس دايبر، ورفقات رشيد، وخالد الزمزمي، وأمير عباس علي زماني، وأيمن شبانة، ومحمد غالي، وپيتر كوپنس، وهديل لبابيدي، وشهاب الدين مهدوي.

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Book SynopsisThis study argues that late ancient Greek and medieval Islamic philosophers interpret human desire along two frameworks in reaction to Aristotle’s philosophy. The investigation of the model dichotomy unfolds historically from the philosophy of Plotinus through the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in 8th-10th century Baghdad to 12th century al-Andalus with the philosophy of Ibn Bāǧǧa and Ibn Ṭufayl. Diverging on desire’s inherent or non-inherent relation to the desiring subject, the two models reveal that the desire’s role can orient opposed accounts of human perfection: logically-structured demonstrative knowledge versus an ineffable witnessing of the truth. Understanding desire along these models, philosophers incorporated supra-rational aspects into philosophical accounts of the human being.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Desire and Its Models  1 Methodology  2 The Two Models and the Human Goal  3 Structure and Scope 1 An Inherent Model of Desire: Plotinus on Desire for the Good  1 Terminology of Desire  2 Desire in the General Structure of Reality  3 Desire in Intellect  4 Desire in Soul  5 Desire in Judgments and Action  6 What Does It Mean to Desire the Good?  7 Being Good-Like  8 Becoming like the Good  9 Formless Desire 2 The Plotiniana Arabica and Desire’s Discontents  1 Desire in Intellect  2 Soul’s Desire of Intellect  3 Soul and Body’s Desire  4 Assimilation and the Ethical Implications of Soul’s Procession  5 Virtue and the Return  6 Avicenna on the Theology of Aristotle 3 Aristotle and al-Fārābī on Desire  1 Aristotle on Desire  2 Al-Fārābī on Desire  3 Al-Fārābī on Aristotle on Desire  4 Models of Desire in Aristotle and al-Fārābī 4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on Desire and Conceptualization  1 Desire in the Soul  2 Desire in the Human Being  3 Striving Soul and the Body  4 Ibn Bāǧǧa on al-Ġazalī and the Sufis  5 Human Excellence and Desire 5 Ibn Ṭufayl: Situating Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān  1 The Purpose and Methodology of the Text  2 Ibn Ṭufayl on His Influences  3 Origins and Orientation 6 The Desire Inherent to Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān  1 Ḥayy’s Desire  2 Ibn Ṭufayl’s Interpretation of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī on Desire  3 Appetite and Dissection  4 Holistic Goal of Ḥayy’s Education  5 Subject of Education, Subject of Desire Conclusion: Modelling the Study  1 Drawing the Boundaries of the Book  2 Ibn Bāǧǧa and Ibn Ṭufayl: Modelling Good Desire Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNaẓar, literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’, thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one’s personal belief. Peering through the lens of naẓar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture. Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw.Table of ContentsPreface Notes to the Reader List of Figures Notes on Contributors Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse  Samer Akkach 1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable  Samer Akkach 2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’  Wendy M.K. Shaw part 1: The Eye of the Heart 3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic Spirituality  Stephen Hirtenstein 4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art  Virginia Hooker part 2: The Eye of the Mind 5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of Beauty  Ellen Philpott-Teo 6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning Seeing  Samer Akkach part 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing 7 May the Envier’s Eye be Blind  Sakina Nomanbhoy 8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art  James Bennett part 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing 9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape  Shaha Parpia 10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-Nauras  Sushma Griffin Index

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Book SynopsisIn 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 attributes. He then examines how Ibn Taymiyya applies these foundational principles as exemplified in his treatment of selected divine attributes. Throughout the book, Suleiman relates Ibn Taymiyya’s positions to the larger context of Islamic intellectual history. The book was awarded the Dissertation Prize 2019 by the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) and the Classical Islamic Book Prize by Gorgias Press (2020).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements (to the English translation) Acknowledgements (of the original German version) List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1 State of the Field  2 Objectives and Approach  3 Overview of the Works of Ibn Taymiyya Most Frequently Used in This Study Part 1 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography and the History of the Divine Attributes in Islamic Thought before His Time 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography 3 The Divine Attributes in Islamic Intellectual History up to the Time of Ibn Taymiyya  1 The Emergence of the Debate over the Divine Attributes in Early Islam  2 The Muʿtazila  3 The Falāsifa  4 Ahl al-Ḥadīth  5 The Ashʿarīs Part 2 The Methodological Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Doctrine of the Divine Attributes 4 Ontological Foundations  1 The Term wujūd: Meaning and Gradations  2 Likeness (mithl, tamāthul) and Similarity (shibh, tashābuh, ishtibāh) among Existent Things  3 Ibn Taymiyya’s Ontological Conceptualism  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of the Doctrine of the Unity of Being (waḥdat al-wujūd) in Speculative Sufism 5 Linguistic Foundations  1 The ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  2 On the Semantic Relationship of Homonymous Expressions: Ibn Taymiyya’s Linguistic Counterproposal to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  3 What Are the Theological Consequences of Ibn Taymiyya’s Alternative to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy? 6 Hermeneutical Foundations  1 Verse Q. 3:7—Ibn Taymiyya’s Understanding of the Terms muḥkam, mutashābih, and taʾwīl  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Challenge to the Validity of Taʾwīl Majāzī: Attempting to Limit the Scope of Application of the Universal Rule (al-qānūn al-kullī)  3 The Two Principles and the Seven Basic Rules for Interpreting the Divine Attributes 7 Epistemological Foundations  1 On the Applicability of Qiyās in Theology  2 The Epistemic Value of Textual Indicants: Ibn Taymiyya in Debate with al-Rāzī 8 Summary Part 3 The Divine Essence and Attributes in Focus 9 Temporally Originating States and Acts (ḥawādith) in the Divine Essence 10 Case Studies of Selected Divine Attributes  1 al-ʿAdl: God’s Justice  2 al-Kalām: God’s Speech  3 al-Istiwāʾ: God’s Rising over His Throne  4 al-Maʿiyya: God’s “Withness” 11 Summary 12 Evaluation and Conclusion Bibliography Index of People and Subjects Index of Quranic Verses

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Book SynopsisThis is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and many more. This volume focuses especially on issues in metaphysics, dealing with topics like the essence-existence distinction, the problem of universals, free will and determinism, Platonic Forms, good and evil, proofs of God’s existence, and the relationship between philosophy and theology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Method  2 Historical Overview  3 Prehistory  4 Formation  5 Culmination  6 Refinement  7 Others  8 Online Text Resource 1 The Subject Matter of Metaphysics and Kalam 2 The Essence-Existence Distinction 3 Univocity and Equivocity of Existence 4 Non-Existence and Mental Existence 5 Universals 6 Platonic Forms 7 Individuation 8 Proofs for God’s Existence 9 God’s Essence 10 God’s Knowledge 11 God’s Knowledge of Particulars 12 Free Will, Determinism, and Human Action 13 Good and Evil Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Mise en Scène Introduction  1 Contours of a Conflict  2 Why the Darʾ taʿāruḍ?  3 About This Work Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation? 1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya  1 Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation  2 The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law  3 Early Theological Reflection and Contention  4 The Muʿtazila  5 Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal  6 The Miḥna and Its Aftermath  7 Nascent Ashʿarī Thought and the Early Kalām  8 Philosophy  9 The New Kalām and Subsequent Developments  10 Kalām and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazālī 2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile  1 The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661–728/1263–1328)  2 Intellectual Profile  3 Character and Contemporary Reception  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Works  5 The Historiography of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ: Ibn Taymiyya’s Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited  6 The Darʾ taʿāruḍ in Context: Ibn Taymiyya’s View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation 3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited  2 The Result of Figurative Interpretation (taʾwīl)  3 Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Project: Refuting the Universal Rule  5 On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation  6 Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts  7 Not “Scriptural vs. Rational” but “Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated”  8 Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule  9 On the Universal Rule’s Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology 4 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Manqūl, or What Is Revelation  1 Taʾwīl and the Meaning of Qurʾān 3:7  2 The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya’s “Contextual Taʾwīl”  3 The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention (ʿurf)  4 Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift  5 A Case Study: The Terms wāḥid, tawḥīd, and tarkīb 5 Ṣarīḥ al-Maʿqūl, or What Is Reason?  1 What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya’s Account of Reality  2 How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge  3 The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fī al-adhhān?  4 The Structure of Reason 6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyās al-ghāʾib ʿalā al-shāhid  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes  3 Concluding Reflections Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Glossary of Arabic Terms Glossary of Proper Names Bibliography Index of Arabic Passages Index of Ḥadīth Index of People and Places Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisLawāmiʿ 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 Safri offers a critical edition of this work, together with a study of the author's life and oeuvre. Safri also tries to show the indirect influence of Avicennism on logic in the Maghribī tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the basis of his writings on logic and philosophical theology, al-Wallālī was considered a master of rational sciences by his contemporaries.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliography Index Arabic Section Arabic Table of Contents to the Study and Edition Study of the Book Critical edition: Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Wallālī: Lawāmiʿ al-Naẓar fī Taḥqīq Maʿānī al-Mukhtaṣar Bibliography Index of the Critical Edition Index of the Study

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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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Book SynopsisIbn 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 work helped consolidate the logic of the “later scholars” (such as Khūnajī). It also shows that commentators did much more than merely explain the original work and instead regularly discussed and assessed received views. Ibn Wāṣil’s work was an influential contribution to a particularly dynamic chapter in the history of Arabic logic.

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Book SynopsisIn Supplier Dieu dans l’Égypte toulounide, Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem provide the edition, translation and study of a booklet preserved on papyrus and dated 267/880-881. It offers a selection of some forty hadiths heard by Khālid ibn Yazīd, a minor local scholar, concerning the invocations that every pious Muslim has to use when addressing God. Composed during the reign of the famous governor Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, the first autonomous ruler of Islamic Egypt, this manuscript bears exceptional testimony to the way traditional sciences were taught at the time. Not only does it open an unprecedented window on the milieu of ordinary transmitters, whose names soon fell into oblivion, but it also sheds new light on the Tulunids’ religious policy and on the islamisation of Egypt. Dans la seconde moitié du IIIe/IXe siècle, un savant répondant au nom de Ḫālid b. Yazīd enseigna une quarantaine de hadiths sur le thème des invocations que tout pieux musulman se devait d’adresser à Dieu. Un opuscule issu de son enseignement, portant la date de 267/880–881, a survécu sur papyrus. Mathieu Tillier et Naïm Vanthieghem en proposent ici l’édition, la traduction et l’étude. Composé sous le règne du fameux gouverneur Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn, premier souverain autonome de l’Égypte islamique, ce manuscrit offre un témoignage exceptionnel sur la manière dont les sciences traditionnelles étaient alors enseignées. Il ouvre non seulement une fenêtre inédite sur le milieu des transmetteurs ordinaires, dont les noms tombèrent rapidement dans l’oubli, mais vient aussi éclairer d’un nouveau jour la politique religieuse des Toulounides et la dynamique d’islamisation de l’Égypte.Table of ContentsTranslittération de l’arabe Introduction  1 Le titre, l’auteur et ses principaux maîtres  2 Le manuscrit  3 Un florilège de traditions  4 Remise en contexte  5 De l’invocation : sources littéraires et documentaires Édition papyrologique  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8  Page 9  Page 10  Page 11  Page 12  Page 13  Page 14 Commentaire linéaire  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8  Page 9  Page 10  Page 11  Page 12  Page 13  Page 14 Édition normalisée et traduction  Introduction  Ce que l’on rapporte au sujet du suprême nom de Dieu qui, lorsqu’il est invoqué, suscite Sa réponse  Exhortation à invoquer Dieu  De l’invocation Annexe: Les principaux savants Égyptiens morts entre 255/869 et 280/893-894 d’après al-Ḏahabī, Taʾrīḫ al-islām Bibliographie Planches Index des personnes et des tribus Index des lieux et des monuments Index des notions

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues (makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts (faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts (adab, taḥbīb, ʿuzla); disciplines (ḥadīth transmission, gender ethics); and individual and key traditions (the ḥadīth of intention, consult your heart, key ḥadīths). The volume concludes with a chronologically ordered annotated bibliography of the key primary sources in the Islamic tradition with relevance to understanding the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics. This volume will be beneficial to researchers in the fields of Islamic ethics, ḥadīth studies, moral philosophy, scriptural ethics, religious ethics, and narrative ethics, in addition to Islamic and religious studies in general. Contributors Faqihuddin Abdul Kodir, Nuha Alshaar, Safwan Amir, Khairil Husaini Bin Jamil, Pieter Coppens, Chafik Graiguer, M. Imran Khan, Mutaz al-Khatib, Salahudheen Kozhithodi and Ali Altaf Mian. يتناول هذا الكتاب الصلة بين الحديث والأخلاق، الأمر الذي لم يحظ بالاهتمام في الدراسات المعاصرة حول الأخلاق الإسلامية. فهو يؤسس لفرع أخلاقي جديد اسمه «الأخلاق الحديثية» التي تشكل مع أخلاق القرآن ما يسمى «الأخلاق النصية». يغطي الكتاب جوانب نظرية وأخرى تطبيقية. فهو يبرز المضمون الأخلاقي الثري لمدونات الحديث، ويضم أربعة أقسام رئيسة هي: مكارم الأخلاق وفضائل الأعمال، ومفاهيم: الأدب والتحبيب والعزلة، كما يتناول الأبعاد الأخلاقية لرواية الحديث والجندر (النوع الاجتماعي)، بالإضافة إلى الأحاديث المفردة (كحديث إنما الأعمال بالنيات، وحديث استفتِ قلبك) والأحاديث الكلية التي تشكل أصول الحديث ومبادئه الكبرى. يحتوي الكتاب أيضًا على كشاف تحليليّ لأبرز مصنفات المحدثين في الأخلاق. من شأن هذا الكتاب أن يكون مرجعًا للطلاب والباحثين في المجالات الآتية: الأخلاق الإسلامية، والحديث النبوي، والفلسفة الأخلاقية، والأخلاق النصية، والأخلاق الدينية، وأخلاقيات السرد، بالإضافة إلى الدراسات الإسلامية والدينية بشكل عام. المساهمون شفيق اكّريكّر، وصفوان أمير، وخَيرئيل حسيني بن جميل، ومحمد عمران خان، ومعتز الخطيب، ونهى الشعار، وفقيه الدين عبد القدير، وپيتر كوپنس، وصلاح الدين كوزيتودي، وعلي ألطاف ميان.

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Book SynopsisThe notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.Table of ContentsContents Preface. A Project, a Conference, a Book List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction. L’adab, toujours recommencé “Origins”, Transmissions, Metamorphoses  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen 2 From Education to Etiquette An Attempt to Reconstruct the Semantic “Enlargement” of the Term Adab  Luca Patrizi Part 1: Backgrounds and Foundations 3 Paideia et adab Quelques remarques préliminaires  Jakub Sypiański 4 De l’adab au musar La littérature philosophique hébraïque dans la formation de l’éthique juive au Moyen ge  Francesca Gorgoni Part 2: The “Origins” of Adab Introduction to Part 2  Francesca Bellino Section 1: Adab and the Formation of Literary Canons 5 Wine, Law and Irony al-Jāḥīẓ’s Kitāb al-shārib wa-l-mashrūb (On the Drinker and Drinks)  Ignacio Sánchez 6 Developing a Knowledge System Based on Adab Birds Fluttering from Ibn Qutayba’s Adab al-Kātib to the ʿUyūn al-Akhbār  Francesca Bellino 7 Adab al-imlāʾ wa-l-istimlāʾ d’Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Samʿānī (m. 562/1166) Refonder et canoniser la transmission du hadith au prisme de l’adab  Francesco Chiabotti Section 2: Adab, Power and Ethics 8 Adab in Early Wisdom Literature and the Role of Aristotle’s Letters to Alexander  Faustina Doufikar-Aerts 9 Deciphering Difference in Premodern Islamic Political Thought  Neguin Yavari 10 Règles d’adab et maîtrise des émotions Amour et colère en parallèle dans l’Islam médiéval  Monica Balda-Tillier Part 3: The Transmission of Adab: The Redefinition of Genres through the Centuries Introduction to Part 3  Francesca Bellino Section 1: Kalīla wa-Dimna: Back and Forth from India to the West 11 The Crow Who Aped the Partridge Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Aesopian Language in a Fable of Kalīla wa-Dimna  István T. Kristó-Nagy 12 Homecoming: The Journey Back to India of Kalīla wa-Dimna  Thibaut d’Hubert Section 2: Evolution of Genres: The maqāmāt 13 Adab as Metamorphosis Text, Translation, and Commentary of the Mawṣiliyya of Hamadhānī  Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz 14 The Maqāma as a Romantic Novel? Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) and “The Cooing of the Dove in the Qamariyya School Quarter”  Stefan Reichmuth Section 3: Changes in Function: The Anthologies 15 Buried Treasure, Sweet Basil and the Turtle in the Tree Innovative Features of Arabic adab in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods  Hilary Kilpatrick 16 D’Ahiqar au tapis volant du roi Salomon, des mirabilia géographiques à Sindbad le marin en araméen moderne Adab et recherche orientaliste à la fin du XIXe siècle  Alessandro Mengozzi Part 4: Metamorphoses of Origins Introduction to Part 4  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Section 1: Science, Aesthetics and Mysticism 17 Adab et magie dans l’Islam médiéval Une lecture de traités arabes de magie à travers le prisme de l’adab  Jean-Charles Coulon 18 When Aesthetics Is Ethics, Forging Adab through Literary Imitation The Irano-Turkic Case  Marc Toutant 19 Paradoxe et subjectivité chez Hamzah Fansuri  Étienne Naveau Section 2: Reconstructing Origins beyond Ruins? 20 Adab into Littérature Debating Turkish Literature in Ancien Régime France  Jonathan Haddad 21 Ruins for a Renaissance: Decline, Rebirth and Cyclical History in the Arab Mediterranean  Elisabetta Benigni 22 Al-Hāshimī’s Jawāhir al-adab: Anthology and History of Arab Literature From a Reformist Project to Egyptian Nationalism (1900–1937)  Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Index of Names and Places Index of Titles Index of Keywords and Notions

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Book SynopsisOliver Kahl and Henrietta Sharp Cockrell present a facsimile edition of a newly discovered medieval medical text attributed to the famous physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (Rhazes, d. 925 CE). This unique Arabic manuscript comprises a work in the health regimen genre titled “Book of the Crown” (Kitāb al-Iklīl). Copied in 1220 CE and bound parallel to the text (flip-bound), it is highly unusual, both in terms of physical appearance and topical choices. The edition is accompanied by an annotated English translation en regard, a detailed introduction including a codicological study, and bilingual indices.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Preliminary Notes  2 Rhazes  3 The Present Work  4 Authorship  5 Manuscript Format  6 Text Layout  7 Illuminated Heading  8 Measurements and Script  9 Paper  10 Binding  11 Conclusion Plates Facsimile Edition and Translation Bibliography Index of Substances and Products Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisIslamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue. Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Transliteration, Style, and Dates 1 Introduction  Liana Saif and Francesca Leoni Part 1 Occult Theories: Inception and Reception 2 The Three Divisions of Arabic Magic  Charles Burnett 3 New Light on Early Arabic Awfāq Literature  Bink Hallum 4 A Study on the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Epistle on Magic, the Longer Version (52b)  Liana Saif 5 Sabian Astral Magic as Soteriology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Sirr al-maktūm  Michael Noble 6 Lettrism and History in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī’s Naẓm al-sulūk fī musāmarat al-mulūk  Noah Gardiner 7 Kāshifī’s Asrār-i qāsimī: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife  Maria Subtelny Part 2 Occult Technologies: From Instruction to Action 8 The Kitāb Sharāsīm al-hindiyya and Medieval Islamic Occult Sciences  Jean-Charles Coulon 9 Toward a Neopythagorean Historiography: Kemālpaşazāde’s (d. 1534) Lettrist Call for the Conquest of Cairo and the Development of Ottoman Occult-Scientific Imperialism  Matthew Melvin-Koushki 10 Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield  Maryam Ekhtiar and Rachel Parikh 11 Calligrams of the Lion of ʿAlī in Southeast Asia  Farouk Yahya 12 A Stamped Talisman  Francesca Leoni 13 Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s “New Turkey”  Christiane Gruber 14 Postscript: Cutting Ariadne’s Thread, or How to Think Otherwise in the Maze  Travis Zadeh Index

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Book SynopsisPhilosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazālī’s role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashʿarī doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashʿarī tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele.Trade Review“Philosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical Ashʿarī theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. […]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-Rāzī to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical Ashʿarī kalām right across the Muslim world.” Kayhan Ali Özaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021)Table of ContentsContributors Introduction  Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele Post-Ghazālian Theology What were the Lessons to be Learned from al-Ghazālī?  Ulrich Rudolph Al-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām Work Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century  Ayman Shihadeh Le commentaire à la sūrate al-Aʿlā attribué à Avicenne Une épître de Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Meryem Sebti Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Platonist Account of the Essence of Time  Peter Adamson and Andreas Lammer The Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) From Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Fedor Benevich Causing an Essence Notes on the Concept of Jaʿl al-Māhiyya, from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī to Mullā Ṣadrā  Bilal Ibrahim Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (ta‌ʾwīl) of God’s Attributes  Jon Hoover Continuing Conversations Late Sunni Kalām-Theology’s Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy  Aaron Spevack Putting Criticisms against al-Ghazālī in Perspective New Materials on the Interface between Law, Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and Almohad al-Andalus (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd and al-Qurṭubī)  Xavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-Ruano Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era  Jan Thiele The Legacy of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī His Works and His Students  Reza Pourjavady Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens The Two “Taḥqīqs” in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1019/1690)  Harith Ramli The Mawāqif of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī in India  Asad Q. Ahmed Index

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Book SynopsisThe Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.Table of ContentsContents Foreword  Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav Notes on Contributors Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism? 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism  Steven Harvey 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism  Giovanni Licata Part 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex 3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?  Mercedes Rubio 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides  Reimund Leicht 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of Marseille  David Lemler 6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide  Yonatan Shemesh Part 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia  Daniel J. Lasker 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics  Shalom Sadik 9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy  Shira Weiss Part 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes  Yoav Meyrav 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?  Resianne Fontaine 12 Falaquera the Averroist  Yair Shiffman 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach  Bakinaz Abdalla 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect  Alexander Green 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist  Esti Eisenmann 16 Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes  Warren Zev Harvey 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements”  Elisa Coda Part 5: Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes  Yehuda Halper 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics  Francesca Gorgoni 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36  Michael Engel Index

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Book SynopsisDialogues for the Future provides a sneak peek at the long philosophic journey of the renowned Arab scholar Taha Abderrahmane. The author looks at different thorny issues such as traditions, philosophy, ethics, globalization, and logic through a local prism that is not directedly tainted by the Western epistemic and ontological worldview. While seemingly addressing audiences with a background in the philosophy of language and Islamic philosophy, Taha’s intellectual project tackles many questions that wider readerships might have about the Muslims’ and Arabs’ contribution to knowledge in the past and present. The translator’s introduction “on Dialogue, Ethics and Traditions” contextualizes Taha’s book within the plethora of his academic work, allowing English-speaking readers to engage with the open canvas of dialogue Taha has resiliently initiated.

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Book SynopsisThe book approaches the conceptual background of Avicenna's account of efficient causality, outlining the positions held by him and his early interpreters (eleventh and twelfth centuries), as well as the arguments that support those positions. The first aim of the book is to show the systematic unity of the Avicennian doctrines on ontology and aetiology, highlighting the threads connecting the two. The second aim is to investigate Avicenna’s influence over his interpreters, assessing continuities and discontinuities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Avicenna  2 The Avicennians: Bahmanyār, Lawkarī, Khayyām, and Sāwī  3 The Anti-Avicennians: Ghazālī, Ibn al-Malāḥimī, Shahrastānī, Masʿūdī, and Ibn Ghaylān  4 The Innovators: Abū l-Barakāt and Suhrawardī  5 The Systematiser: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  6 The Thirteenth Century: Traditional Mutakallimūn, Post-Rāzians, Ishrāqis, and Neo-Avicennians  7 General Overview of the Study 1 Efficient Causality in Avicenna  1.1 The Subject of and the Reason for Causal Dependence  1.2 Categories of Efficient Causality  1.3 Necessitation Contra Contingent Choice  1.4 Corollaries of Efficient Causality  1.5 The Epistemic Function of Avicenna’s Aetiology 2 The Essence of Existence  2.1 Avicenna: Primitivity, Simplicity, Identity with Reality, Distinction from Quiddity  2.2 Bahmanyār, Khayyām, and Rāzī: The Rejection of Grounding and Dependent Knowability  2.3 Masʿūdī and Abū l-Barakāt: Grounding and Inferential Knowability  2.4 Ibn al-Malāḥimī: Reduction to Quiddity, Nominalism, and Extensionalisation  2.5 Debates: on Grounding  2.6 Debates: on Simplicity and Knowability  2.7 Debates: on Primitivity 3 The Universality of Existence and Mental Existence  3.1 Avicenna and the Majority: the Universality of Existence and Mental Existence  3.2 Masʿūdī and Rāzī: the Rejection of Mental Existence and the Aporia of Universality  3.3 Avicenna, Khayyām, Abū l-Barakāt, and Rāzī: the Distinction between Mental and Concrete  3.4 Debates: on Universality  3.5 Debates: on Mental Existence 4 The Conceptual Invariance of Existence  4.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Conceptual Invariance  4.2 Ibn al-Malāḥimī: Unrestricted Conceptual Variance  4.3 Shahrastānī: Restricted Conceptual Variance  4.4 Debates: on the Case for Invariance  4.5 Debates: on the Case for Variance, Unrestricted and Restricted 5 The Modulation of Existence  5.1 Avicenna and Sāwī: The Modulation of Existence by Priority and Worth  5.2 Ibn al-Malāḥimī, Shahrastānī, and Suhrawardī: the Rejection of the Modulation of Existence  5.3 Bahmanyār: Modulation by Intensity and Accidental Unity  5.4 Ibn al-Malāḥimī, Shahrastānī, Masʿūdī, and Rāzī: Essential Unity and the Rejection of Intensity  5.5 Debates: on Intensity  5.6 Debates: on the Accidentality and Essentiality of Unity 6 The Accidentality of Existence  6.1 Avicenna, Bahmanyār, Sāwī, Masʿūdī, and Rāzī: the Accidentality of Existence  6.2 Ghazālī and Ibn al-Malāḥimī: the Rejection of Distinction (Nominalism)  6.3 Khayyām, Shahrastānī, Ibn Ghaylān, and Suhrawardī: the Rejection of Concrete Reality (Conceptualism)  6.4 Abū l-Barakāt: the Rejection of Inherence  6.5 Debates: on Distinction  6.6 Debates: on Concrete Reality  6.7 Debates: on Externality  6.8 Debates: on Inherence 7 The Contingency of Existence  7.1 Avicenna: Intuitivity, Temporal Neutrality, Equidistance, Attribution to Pure Quiddity, and Concrete Reality  7.2 Bahmanyār and Lawkarī: Relativity, Modulation, and the Problem of Concrete Reality  7.3 Ghazālī and Masʿūdī: Contingency as Causal Dependence  7.4 Ibn al-Malāḥimī: Temporal Qualification and Non-equidistance  7.5 The Majority: the Rejection of Concrete Reality  7.6 Debates: on Contingency as Causal Dependence  7.7 Debates: on the Possibility of Contingency  7.8 Debates: on Equidistance  7.9 Debates: on Concrete Reality 8 The Signs of Contingency  8.1 Avicenna and the Majority: the Contingency of the Conditional and of What Comes-to-be  8.2 Ghazālī and Masʿūdī: the Insufficiency of Conditionality for Contingency  8.3 Ibn al-Malāḥimī: the Insufficiency of Composition for Contingency  8.4 Suhrawardī: the Contingency of the Imperfect and the Multipliable  8.5 Debates: on the Contingency of the Conditional  8.6 Debates: on the Contingency of What Comes-to-be  8.7 Debates: on the Contingency of the Imperfect and the Multipliable 9 The Principle of Sufficient Reason  9.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Sufficient Reason, Causal Necessitarianism, Unrestricted Applicability  9.2 Ghazālī and Ibn Ghaylān: Non-applicability to Voluntary Actions  9.3 Ibn al-Malāḥimī: the Weakening of the Principle  9.4 Shahrastānī: Possible Applicability to Divine Actions  9.5 Rāzī: the Preference for Non-applicability to Divine Actions  9.6 Debates: on the Intuitivity of Sufficient Reason  9.7 Debates: the Inferential Case for Sufficient Reason  9.8 Debates: the Case against Sufficient Reason 10 The Coexistence of Cause and Effect  10.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Coexistence as Entailed by Sufficient Reason  10.2 Rāzī: Coexistence as Distinct from Sufficient Reason  10.3 Shahrastānī: the Rejection of Coexistence with God  10.4 Ibn al-Malāḥimī, Masʿūdī: Causeless Persistence  10.5 Debates: on Coexistence  10.6 Debates: on Coexistence with God  10.7 Debates: on Causeless Persistence 11 Causal Priority  11.1 Avicenna and the Majority: Causal Priority as Existential Priority  11.2 Rāzī: the Problematisation of Causal Priority and Its Corollaries  11.3 Debates: on Causal Priority  11.4 Debates: on Self-Causation  11.5 Debates: on Essential Coming-to-be Conclusion Bibliography Index

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