Interpreting Maimonides
Interpreting Maimonides

Author: Marvin Fox

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0226259420

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In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions—ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.

Aristotle's Rhetoric in the East
Aristotle's Rhetoric in the East

Author: Uwe Vagelpohl

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-08-31

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9047433424

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The two centuries following the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in 750 witnessed a wave of translations from Greek into Syriac and Arabic. The translation and reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric is a prime example for the resulting transformation of antique learning in the Islamic world and beyond. On the basis of a close textual analysis of the Rhetoric, this study develops elements of a comparative “translation grammar” of Greek-Arabic translations. Contextualizing the analysis with an account of the textual history and the Syriac and Arabic philosophical tradition drawing on theRhetoric, it throws new light on the inner workings of the “translation movement” and its impact on Islamic culture.

The Development of Arabic Logic
The Development of Arabic Logic

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher:

Published: 1964-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780822983873

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Nicholas Rescher sheds new light on the major philosophical contribution of Arab logicians. He provides a historical account of the evolution of Arabic logic, from its inception in the early ninth century through the sixteenth century, and includes a bio-bibliography of 170 Arabic logicians.