The Story of Islamic Philosophy

The Story of Islamic Philosophy

Author: Salman H. Bashier

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-07-11

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1438437447

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In this innovative work, Salman H. Bashier challenges traditional views of Islamic philosophy. While Islamic thought from the crucial medieval period is often depicted as a rationalistic elaboration on Aristotelian philosophy and an attempt to reconcile it with the Muslim religion, Bashier puts equal emphasis on the influence of Plato's philosophical mysticism. This shift encourages a new reading of Islamic intellectual tradition, one in which boundaries between philosophy, religion, mysticism, and myth are relaxed. Bashier shows the manner in which medieval Islamic philosophers reflected on the relation between philosophy and religion as a problem that is intrinsic to philosophy and shows how their deliberations had the effect of redefining the very limits of their philosophical thought. The problems of the origin of human beings, human language, and the world in Islamic philosophy are discussed. Bashier highlights the importance of Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a landmark work often overlooked by scholars, and the thought of the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-ʿArabī to the mainstream of Islamic philosophy.


Philosophy in the Islamic World

Philosophy in the Islamic World

Author: Ulrich Rudolph

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 9004492542

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A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with details of biography and doctrine as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works.


The Story of Reason in Islam

The Story of Reason in Islam

Author: Sari Nusseibeh

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1503600580

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In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of Faith and Reason, he takes a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt with major philosophical issues, showing that Reason pervaded all disciplines, from philosophy and science to language, poetry, and law. Along the way, the best known Muslim philosophers are introduced in a new light. Countering received chronologies, in this story Reason reaches its zenith in the early seventeenth century; it then trails off, its demise as sudden as its appearance. Thereafter, Reason loses out to passive belief, lifeless logic, and a self-contained legalism—in other words, to a less flexible Islam. Nusseibeh's speculations as to why this occurred focus on the fortunes and misfortunes of classical Arabic in the Islamic world. Change, he suggests, may only come from the revivification of language itself.


Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kit?b al-Jadal)

Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kit?b al-Jadal)

Author: Fārābī

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1108417531

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Provides the first complete English translation of a central text in the Islamic philosophical tradition, with meticulously researched commentary and interpretation.


Classical Philosophy

Classical Philosophy

Author: Peter Adamson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014-06

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0199674531

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Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world


The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

Author: Ayman Shihadeh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9047409000

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Using hitherto unstudied sources, this monograph provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the ethical theory of al-Rāzī, one of the most complex and influential medieval philosophers and theologians. It reveals remarkable and previously unidentified aspects of ethical thought in Islam.


A History of Muslim Philosophy Volume 1, Book 1

A History of Muslim Philosophy Volume 1, Book 1

Author: M. M. Sharif Sharif

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9781976842887

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About four years ago I received a letter from Mr. S. M. Sharif, Educational Adviser to the Government of Pakistan and now Secretary in the Ministry of Education, drawing my attention to the fact that there was no detailed History of Muslim Philosophy in the English language and inviting me to draw up a scheme for the preparation of such a History. The scheme prepared by me envisaged the collaboration of eighty scholars from all over the world. The blue‑prints of the plan were placed by Mr. S. M. Sharif before the Government of Pakistan for approval and provision of funds. The Cabinet by a special ordinance deputed me to edit the History, and appointed a Committee consisting of the following to steer the scheme through:


Andalus and Sefarad

Andalus and Sefarad

Author: Sarah Stroumsa

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0691176434

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An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. Sarah Stroumsa offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits. Stroumsa traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took over time, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. She sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fāṭimids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways. While acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, Andalus and Sefarad highlights the common ground that united philosophers, providing new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.


Ibn al-ʿArabī's Barzakh

Ibn al-ʿArabī's Barzakh

Author: Salman H. Bashier

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0791484343

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This book explores how Ibn al-'Arabi (1165–1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term "barzakh" indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn al-'Arabi's unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn al-'Arabi's development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man, and compares Ibn al-'Arabi's vision with Plato's.