Islamic and Arab philosophy Books
Lockwood Press The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisAron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important, compelling, and intellectually ambitious treatment of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) in Western scholarship to date. It continues to be widely read and cited, and remains unsurpassed in its incisive analysis of the fundamental assumptions of Islamic legal thought. Zysow's important work is published here in full, for the first time, with updated references, further reflections by the author, and with the addition of a nine-page Foreword by Robert Gleave. Zysow argues that the great dividing line in Islamic legal thought is between those legal theories that require certainty in every detail of the law and those that will admit probability. The latter were historically dominant and include the leading legal schools that have survived to our own day. Zahirism and, for much of its history, Twelver Shi'ism, are examples of the former. The well-known dispute regarding the legitimacy of juridical analogy is only one feature of this fundamental epistemological division, since probability can enter the law in the process of authenticating prophetic traditions and in the interpretation of the revealed texts, as well as through analogy. The notion of consensus in Islamic legal theory functioned to reintroduce some measure of certainty into the law by identifying one of the competing probable solutions as correct. Consequently, consensus has only a reduced role in those systems that reject probability. Another, more radical, means of regaining certainty was the doctrine that regarded the legal reasoning of all qualified jurists on matters of probability as infallible. The development of legal theories of both types was to a large extent shaped by theology and, most significantly, by Mu'tazilism, and subsequently by Ash'arism and Maturidism. Trade Review 'The importance of The Economy of Certainty to the study of Islamic legal theory is a tribute to the precision employed at its inception…. In many disciplines, thirty-year-old research borders on being antique; however, when read today, Zysow’s presentation retains both its originality and its authority…. It has been read and reread by those working on us.u-l, and now, hopefully, those working in linked fields of enquiry will be able to benefit from Zysow’s masterly account of the epistemological and theological factors which make us.u-l al-fiqh such adistinctive and absorbing theory of law.' (Robert Gleave, University of Exeter) 'It is no exaggeration to say that Zysow's contribution is the single most important work on Islamic legal theory (us.u-l al-fiqh) in any western language.' (Marc Herman, Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization) Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Foreword Author's Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Authentication of Prophetic Traditions 2. Interpretation 3. Consensus 4. Analogy 5. IJTIHÄD Epilogue Bibliography Works Cited in the Addenda and Preface Table of Page Correspondences Index of Qur'än Citations Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Names
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Verlag Peter Lang Plotinus and African Concepts of Evil:
Book SynopsisThis book explores the concepts of evil in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The author analyzes the theories of the natural structure and social organization of these views of the world. He stresses the importance of comparing Plotinus and African philosophy. The book offers a proper appreciation of fundamental differences, parallels and similarities and seeks to build on shared values and common existential concerns in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso’. This book highlights the assumption that the world understood in terms of its wider dimensions is not a purposeless conglomerate of phenomena and events that bear no relation to each other, but is rather a structured whole, defined by hierarchy and order.Table of ContentsContents: Plotinus and African Views of the Problem of Evil in the World – The Understanding of Evil in the World-View of the Enneads – Evil in the Enneads with Particular Emphasis on I 8[51] – The Conception of Human Nature and Evil in the Enneads – «The End of the Journey» – Prospect for Multi-Cultural Philosophy – The Nso’ World-View and Identification of Concepts of Evil – Evil in the Nso’ World: A Further Consideration – Human Nature and Evil – Concepts of Evil in Plotinus and the Nso’: Comparisons.
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De Gruyter Platonische Ideen in der arabischen Philosophie: Texte und Materialien zur Begriffsgeschichte von suwar aflatuniyya und muthul aflatuniyya
Book SynopsisDer Einfluss der platonischen Ideenlehre umfasst nahezu alle Epochen und zahlreiche Disziplinen der westlichen Philosophiegeschichte. Kaum bekannt ist, dass auch arabisch und persisch schreibende Philosophen zu allen Zeiten „Platonische Ideen“ und „Platonische Urbilder“ diskutierten, obwohl ihnen die platonischen Dialoge selbst nicht zugänglich waren. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, in welcher Weise und auf welchen Grundlagen diese islamischen Konzeptionen „Platonischer Ideen“ ohne jegliche Rückbindung an das platonische Œuvre doktrinal gefüllt wurden. Der erste, begriffsgeschichtliche Teil geht terminologischen und systematischen Fragen der arabisch-islamischen Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Konzeptionen in zahlreichen Werken aus dem 9. bis 17. Jahrhundert nach, darunter solchen von al-Farabi und Avicenna. Im zweiten Teil werden einige der relevanten arabischen Texte erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung zugänglich gemacht. Die Studie eröffnet damit auch dem Nichtarabisten einen ersten Einblick in einen bisher unerforschten Zweig der Rezeptionsgeschichte des Platonismus, der zugleich ein integraler Bestandteil der islamischen Geistesgeschichte ist.
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de Gruyter The Time of Turath
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De Gruyter Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna's Science of the Soul
Book SynopsisThis book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitāb al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037). This study seeks to frame Avicenna’s science of the soul (or psychology) by focusing on three key concepts: subject, definition, and activity. The examination of these concepts will disclose the twofold consideration of the soul in Avicenna’s psychology. Besides the ‘general approach’ to the soul of sublunary living beings, which is the formal principle of the body, Avicenna’s psychology also exhibits a ‘specific orientation’ towards the soul in itself, i.e. the human rational soul that, considered in isolation from the body, is a self-subsistent substance, identical with the theoretical intellect and capable of surviving severance from the body. These two investigations demonstrate the coexistence in Avicenna’s psychology of a more specific and less physical science (psychologia specialis) within a more general and overall physical one (psychologia generalis).
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Verlag Herder Die Inkoharenz Der Philosophen Tahafut AlFalasifa
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Willensfreiheit
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Theorien Der Intentionalitat Im Mittelalter
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Peter Lang AG What is Jihad?: Toward a Theory of Jihad in
Book SynopsisThis book reveals to you the true meaning of Jihad in Islam. Our approach is based on the neurocognitive theory of meaning. This study is my attempt to give snapshots of how a scientific religious interpretation might look if we tried to do that. The whole point of a cognitive approach to religion is to aid us in gaining access to the conceptual network that the religious text is based on so that we can, in some extended sense of the term, understand the way we should understand it.
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Eine Didaktik des Herzens Von der
Book SynopsisDie Untersuchung des Kitab šar? ?aga?ib al-qalb (Kapitel im I?ya? ?ulum ad-din) von al-Gazali, weist eine unmittelbar pädagogisch-philosophische und wissenschaftstheoretische Zielsetzung auf. Diese Abhandlung bietet eine besondere Gelegenheit, um religionspädagogische Konzepte aus historischer Perspektive zu beleuchten und deren Relevanz für die heutige Zeit zu erforschen.Diese Arbeit zielt auf die Erschließung des theologisch-anthropologischen Menschenbilds und der religionspädagogischen Implikationen in der o. g. Quelle. Hierbei erfolgt zudem die umfassende Analyse des Herzbegriffs im Koran, welcher dem Herzkonzept al-Gazalis gegenübergestellt wird. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Grundlagen einer theologisch-anthropologisch begründeten islamischen Religionspädagogik zu entwickeln. Die Untersuchung basiert auf der Prämisse, dass der Herzbegriff in al-Gazalis Werk pädagogisch-anthropologische und religionspädagogische Implikationen aufweist, die zur Etablierung einer ganzheitlichen Theorie der Bildungs- und Erziehungspraxis beitragen können.
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Das Konzept der Seele im islamischen Menschenbild
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Hirmer Verlag Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet
Book SynopsisWith the help of scholars, historians and artists, and through a range of diverse media, this book sets out to follow in the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (*), retracing his movements during the famous Hijrah ‘migration’, from Makkah to the oasis town of Yathrib soon to become Madinat an-Nabi, the ‘’City of the Prophet”. Situating the Hijrah firmly within the geography in which it unfolded, the book uses the sacred landscape of the Hijrah as a receptacle for its stories, memories and the events that took place along the route, thus providing tangible links between us and this momentous journey as never before experienced. For over fourteen hundred years, al-Hijrah, the famous story of the Prophet Muhammad’s (*) ‘migration’ from Makkah to Madinah, has been told and retold by generations of Muslims throughout the world. This story, one of endurance overcoming adversity in pursuit of religious freedom to establish a nation united by bonds of brotherhood and faith, has continued to be an inspiration from which renewed meanings have been drawn. This book follows in the footsteps of the Prophet (*), retracing his movements during this crucial journey, and examining what occurred as he left his home in Makkah to the oasis town of Yathrib soon to become the “City of the Prophet”. However, unlike anything seen before, this book anchors the Hijrah firmly within the geography in which it unfolded. Acting as a receptacle for its stories, memories and the events that took place along the route, the sacred landscape of the Hijrah provides tangible links between us and this momentous journey as never before, bringing a greater appreciation of the Hijrah story.
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag The Development of Arabic Logic (1200-1800)
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert: Arabischer Sprachraum
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert: Turkei, Iran Und
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Transcript Verlag Theorizing Justice in Contemporary Arabo-Islamic
Book SynopsisWhat is ?justice? from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different philosophical traditions, and seeks to decenter Western notions of normativity. She focuses on two thinkers, namely the feminist Fatima Mernissi (d.2015) and Mohamed Arkoun (d.2010), a well-known critic of hegemony and orthodoxy. She situates their thinking within current debates among Arab thinkers and brings their ideas into dialog with Western political philosophy. This study thus challenges stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic world by discussing postcolonial theories of gender justice, political freedom, and religion.
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Gerlach Press In Search of Ali ibn Abi Talib's Codex: History
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Gerlach Press Reform of Islam. Forty Theses for an Islamic
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£104.28
Gerlach Press The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The
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Gerlach Press The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam. Collected
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers M Kiryanna
Book SynopsisProfessor M. Hiriyanna, an expert in traditional Indian philosophy and English literature, is celebrated for his unique perspective on Indian metaphysics and value investigation. This monograph evaluates his contributions, offering a comprehensive overview of his work.
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Brill Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī.
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism. The majority of the papers herein deal with important topics of al-Ghazālī’s work, which demonstrate his rational treatment of the Qurʾān and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazālī’s sources and how his intellectual endeavors were later received by scholars who had the same concern of reconciling religion and rationality within Islam, Christianity and Judaism. With contributions by Binyamin Abrahamov, Hans Daiber, Ken Garden, Avner Giladi, Scott Girdner, Frank Griffel, Steven Harvey, Alfred Ivry, Jules Janssens, Taneli Kukkonen, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Wilferd Madelung, Yahya M. Michot, Yasien Mohamed, Eric Ormsby, M. Sait Özervarlı, and Hidemi Takahashi.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Georges Tamer Introduction Hans Daiber God versus Causality: al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background Wilferd Madelung Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to philosophy Binyamin Abrahamov Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism Georges Tamer Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān Frank Griffel Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-kullī fī t-taʾwīl) Eric Ormsby The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī Taneli Kukkonen Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions Avner Giladi Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes Yasien Mohamed The Duties of the Teacher: al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharīʿa as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazālī’s Mīzān al-ʿamal Ken Garden Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿamal) Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (‘ilm) and Certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-mustaqīm Scott Girdner Ghazālī’s hermeneutics and their reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters) Alfred Ivry Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation Steven Harvey The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in Medieval Jewish Thought Hidemi Takahashi The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus Jules Janssens R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī Yahya M. Michot Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād M. Sait Özervarlı Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context Bibliography
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Brill Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī.
Book SynopsisAl-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential thinkers of Islam. There is hardly a genre of Islamic literature where he is not regarded as a major authority. Islamic Law, Sufism, ethics, philosophy, and theology are all deeply shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers. Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.Table of ContentsContents Preface Notes on Contributors Keys and Conventions Part I Al-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought 1 Al-Ghazālī on Error Taneli Kukkonen 2 Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy Ulrich Rudolph 3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best Possible World Thesis Stephen Ogden 4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah) Ahmed El Shamsy 5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism Ayman Shihadeh 6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft? Anna Ayṣe Akasoy 7 Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318? Frank Griffel Part II Al-Ghazālī’s Influence 8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Cognitive Theories Damien Janos 9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35) Jules Janssens 10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in the Late Ottoman Period M. Sait Özervarlı 11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science — and its Limitations Martin Riexinger 12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival Kenneth Garden Indices
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Brill Philosophy in the Islamic World: Volume 1:
Book SynopsisPhilosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century AD down to modern times. In the period covered by this first volume (eighth to tenth centuries), philosophy began to blossom thanks to the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and the emergence of autochthonous intellectual traditions within Islam. Both major and minor figures of the period are covered, giving details of biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works. This is the English version of the relevant volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy ( Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt Band I: 8.–10. Jahrhundert., Basel: Schwabe, 2012).Trade Review"Within a short time, Philosophy in the Islamic World is acknowledged as one of the most important resources for the study of all aspects of Islam’s intellectual history. Rotraud Hansberger produced a superb English translation of the German original. The work's comprehensive approach to the subject together with the competence of many experts makes it indispensable for any future study on philosophy in Islam." - Frank Griffel, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University "Auch wenn Band 3 noch nicht vorliegt, ist bereits jetzt gewiss, dass die Reihe «Philosophie in der islamischen Welt» weit mehr leistet als ein «normales» wissenschaftliches Handbuch: Die Grundlagenarbeit macht die Bände zu unentbehrlichen Standardwerken. Ein Beleg für die grosse Bedeutung des Projekts für die Islamwissenschaft ist auch, dass alle Bände nach der Publikation umgehend auf Englisch übersetzt werden." - Philipp Hufschmid, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung,17.08.2022.
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Brill The Inimitable Qurʾān: Some Problems in English
Book SynopsisIn The Inimitable Qurʾān: Some Problems in English Translations of the Qurʾān with Reference to Rhetorical Features, Khalid Yahya Blankinship examines certain Arabic rhetorical features of the Qurʾān as represented in seven English translations. The author addresses the intersection of two important topics in Qurʾānic studies: the critique of the available English translations and the role of rhetoric in the interpretation of the Qurʾān. He identifies a number of figures characteristic of Qurʾanic style which represent some of the chief stumbling blocks for readers who are used to English in attempting to understand, interpret, and appreciate the text. The book should be useful to all those interested in rhetorical and translation studies and theory as well as Islamic studies.Table of ContentsIPreface Note on Transliteration Introduction 1 Word Order 2 Iltifāt 3 Indicative in Place of Imperative or Jussive 4 Indefinite Nouns 5 Non-Consequential Exception 6 Pleonasm and Redundancy 7 Repetition for Emphasis 8 Parallelism 9 Juxtaposition of Contrasting Conditional Sentences 10 Coordination 11 Lack of Conjunctive (Asyndeton) 12 Parenthesis (iʿtirāḍ) 13 Succinctness, or ījāz al-qiṣar 14 Ellipsis, or ījāz al-ḥadhf Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam
Book SynopsisThis volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. Naive dichotomies of “reason” and “esotericism” in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shiʿi thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Twelver and Ismaili Shiʿism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse. The volume’s contributions highlight the cross-sectarian genealogy of early Shiʿi esotericism; the rationale behind Fatimid Ismaili Quranic taʿwīl hermeneutics; the socio-political context of religious authority in nascent Twelver Shiʿism; authorial agency wielded by Imami hadith compilers; the position of esoteric Shiʿi traditions in Timurid-era Ḥilla; and Shiʿi-Sufi relations with Uṣūlī jurists in modern Iran. Contributors: Rodrigo Adem, Alessandro Cancian, Edmund Hayes, Sajjad Rizvi, Tahera Qutbuddin, Paul Walker, George WarnerTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Abbreviations Employed Introduction: On the Use and Abuse of Reason and Esotericism in Islamic Studies Rodrigo Adem and Edmund Hayes 1 Early Ismailism and the Gates of Religious Authority: Genealogizing the Theophanic Secret of Early Esoteric Shiʿism Rodrigo Adem 2 The Imam Who Might Have Been: Jaʿfar “the Liar” between Political Realism and Esoterist Idealism Edmund Hayes 3 Explaining Prayer: Hadith and Esotericism in al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s ʿIlal al-Sharāʾiʿ George Warner 4 The Doctrine of Taʾwīl in Fatimid Ismaili Texts Paul Walker 5 Principles of Fatimid Symbolic Interpretation (Taʾwīl): An Analysis Based on the Majālis Muʾayyadiyya of al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī (d. 470/1078) Tahera Qutbuddin 6 Esoteric Shiʿi Islam in the Later School of al-Ḥilla: Walāya and Apocalypticism in al-Ḥasan b. Sulaymān al-Ḥillī (d. after 1399) and Rajab al-Bursī (d. c. 1411) Sajjad Rizvi 7 Sufi Mysticism and Uṣūlī Shiʿism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism Alessandro Cancian Index
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Brill Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God
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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Brill Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of
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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Brill Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of
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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Brill La Théorie du Bayan dalJai
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Brill Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought
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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Brill Spirit of the Mind
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Peeters Publishers Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural
Book Synopsis"Cultural interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam" - such was the title of a combined research project of the Universities of Leiden and Groningen aimed at describing the various ways in which the Christian communities of the Middle East expressed their distinct cultural identity in Muslim societies. As part of the project the symposium "Redefining Christian Identity, Christian cultural strategies since the rise of Islam" took place at Groningen University on April 7-10, 1999. This book contains the proceedings of this conference.From the articles it becomes clear that a number of distinct "cultural strategies" can be identified, some of which were used very frequently, others only in certain groups or at particular periods of time. The three main strategies that are represented in the papers of this volume are: (i) reinterpretation of the pre-Islamic Christian heritage; (ii) inculturation of elements from the new Islamic context; (iii) isolation from the Islamic context. Viewed in time, it is clear that the "reinterpretation" of older Christian heritage was particularly important in the first two centuries after the rise of Islam, the seventh and eighth centuries, that "inculturation" was the dominant theme of the Abbasid period, in the ninth to twelfth centuries, whereas from the Mongol period onwards, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, "isolation" more and more often occurs, although inculturation of elements from the predominantly Muslim environment never came to a complete standstill.
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Peeters Publishers Penser avec Avicenne: De l'héritage grec à la
Book SynopsisJules Janssens a construit une œuvre importante, qui, pour de nombreux chercheurs, a ouvert des perspectives de recherches nouvelles et fécondes. Ses travaux ont fait date. Ils portent principalement sur la philosophie d’Avicenne, ses sources, ses rapports avec la pensée musulmane, son influence sur la théologie ash‘arite (al-Ghazālī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī) et sa réception dans le monde latin. Pour lui rendre hommage, quatorze collègues et amis de renommée internationale se sont réunis pour poursuivre ses réflexions sur ces thèmes. L’ouvrage qui en est issu offre un état des lieux de la recherche contemporaine sur Avicenne et sa postérité arabo-latine.
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Peeters Publishers Šem ov Ben Yosef Ibn Falaquera Ansichten der
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Peeters Publishers Commentum Medium Super Libro Peri Hermeneias
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ISEAS Post-Islamism Battles Political Islam in Malaysia
Book SynopsisDuring the 15th general election (GE15) in 2022 and the state elections in 2023, the clash between Anwar Ibrahim and PAS reached new heights. This can be viewed as a battle between political Islam and post-Islamism.Political Islam as embodied by PAS pursues the establishment of an Islamic state, while post-Islamism as represented by Anwar Ibrahim is a way of balancing the ambitions of Islam with secular approaches. While PAS has been consistent in espousing political Islam since its establishment, Anwar Ibrahim's approach to the role of Islam in politics has changed since his early days in UMNO. Evolving from an Islamist involved in state-led Islamization to a post-Islamist, he now espouses democratic values and multiculturalism.GE15 and the 2023 state elections witnessed fierce competition between PAS and Anwar Ibrahim. Both sides either escalated or downplayed crucial topics such as the implementation of hudud law and RUU355, the myth of Islam and Malays being under threat, the claim that states under PAS are discriminated against, and the takfiri denouncements of non-Muslims as election candidates or potential leaders of the country.The results of GE15 and the 2023 state elections between PAS and Anwar Ibrahim, who is now prime minister, show that there will certainly be sequels to come. The elections illustrate that political Islam is growing in strength. This is most evident in the fact that PAS currently has a whopping forty-three seats in the Malaysian parliament, and controls four states. The only way Anwar Ibrahim can remain in power is through assistance from PAS' old nemesis, UMNO, a party heavily tainted by corruption.
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