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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Context -- 1. The Origins of Islam -- 2. From the First Caliphs (Rāshidūn) (632-661) to the Umayyad Era (661-750) -- 3. The ʿAbbāsid Period -- 4. The Transmission of Foreign Knowledge Into Islamic Lands -- Further Reading -- 2 The Configuration of Philosophy in the Islamic Milieu: The Translation Movement -- 1. The Translation Movement: From Greek Into Syriac Into Arabic -- 2. Translation of Greek Philosophy into Arabic |
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3. Other Sources for Translators, Translations, and Philosophers: Miskawayh and Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī -- 4. The Transmission of Aristotle's Logical Treatises -- 5. The Connection Between Logic and Other Disciplines: Jurisprudence and Theology -- Further Reading -- 3 Theologians and Philosophers on Islamic Revelation -- 1. The Muʿtazilites and Rationalism in Islam -- 2. The Ashʿarites, the Māturīdītes, and the Recovery of the Tradition -- 3. Religious Issues in Philosophy -- 3.1 al-Kindī and the Muʿtazilite Theology -- 3.2 al-Fārābī: Understanding Religious Matters Philosophically |
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3.3 Ibn Sīnā on God, the Divine Attributes, and Determinism -- 4. The Controversies Between al-Ghazālī and Ibn Rushd -- 5. A Later Critical Reaction to Philosophy: Ibn Taymiyya -- Further Reading -- 4 The Classification of the Sciences, Logic, and Language -- 1. The Structure of Sciences and the Methods They Employ -- 1.1 al-Kindī and On the Quantity of Aristotle's Books -- 1.2 al-Fārābī and the Enumeration of the Sciences -- 1.3 The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity -- 1.4 Ibn Sīnā and the Epistle on the Divisions of the Rational Sciences -- 2. Logic and Language |
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2.1 al-Fārābī's Logic and Philosophy of Language -- 2.2 The Aristotelian-Fārābīan-Avicennian Logical Tradition -- 3. Theory of Argumentation: Dialectic and Demonstration -- 3.1 al-Fārābī on the Proper Methods for Philosophical Argumentation -- 3.2 Ibn Sīnā on Philosophical Demonstrations -- 3.3 Ibn Rushd on the Demonstrative Syllogism -- 4. Rhetoric and Poetics -- 4.1 al-Fārābī on Rhetorical Elocutions and Poetic Images -- 4.2 Ibn Sīnā on Rhetoric and the Poetic Syllogism -- 4.3 Ibn Rushd on the Art of Persuasion and the Educational Role of Poetry -- Further Reading |
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5 Philosophy and the Natural Science -- 1. The Eternity of the World and Creation Ex Nihilo -- 1.1 Greek Background on the Discussion of the Eternity of the World -- 1.2 Islamic Approaches to the Creation of the World -- 1.3 al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā on the Eternity of the World -- 1.4 Ibn Rushd on the Eternity of the World -- 2. Nature and Its Characteristics -- 2.1 Nature as an Active or Passive Principle -- 2.2 Ibn Sīnā and Nature as First Principle of Motion -- 2.3 Ibn Rushd and Nature as Something Self-Evident -- 2.4 Ibn Rushd Against Ibn Bājja's Views on Motion in the Void |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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2.5 Non-Aristotelian Views about Nature: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī |
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Islamic philosophy -- History -- To 1500
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Islamic philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315389264 |
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1315389266 |
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