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Book SynopsisHow do intellectual traditions interact? This is the fundamental question driving this book, which explores a case study set in the early Islamicate world: the Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians by the Christian-Arabic theologian and philosopher Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī (d. 974). The book attempts to contextualise the treatise and its intellectual environment by exploring the interplay between philosophy, Christian theology and Islam. This volume includes a revised Arabic text of Samir’s 2015 edition, collated with the manuscript Tehran, Madrasa-yi Marwī 19, recently discovered by prof. Robert Wisnovsky.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Interpreting Early Arabic Christian Theology Part 1 1 State of the Research 1.1 The life of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī 1.2 Studies on Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī 1.3 Previous Scholarship on the Treatise on Divine Unity 2 An Analysis of the Contents of the Treatise on Divine Unity 2.1 Title, Authenticity and Date 2.2 Topic and Purpose of the Treatise 2.3 The pars destruens: the Refuted Doctrines 2.4 The pars construens 2.5 The First Appendix, on the Public of the Treatise 2.6 The Second Appendix, concerning a Doubt and Its Solution 2.7 Overall Remarks: Philosophical Method and Theology 3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī’s Critique of the Philosophical Conception of the First Principle 3.1 The Unity of the First Principle in al-Kindī’s On First Philosophy and Its Reprise in Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī 3.2 The Second Appendix of the Treatise in the Light of the Theory of the Three States of Existence 3.3 Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and al-Fārābī on Divine Unity Final Remarks Part 2 Manuscript Transmission and Editions of the Treatise on Divine Unity Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians Arabic Text English Translation Commentary Bibliography Index
