Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages
Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages

Author: Wim Raven

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-08-31

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 9047441923

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The history of Islamic thought in the Middle Ages, the impact of Greek philosophy and science, and the formation of an own theological tradition, is a long and complex one. The articles in this volume dedicated to Hans Daiber, one of the pioneering scholars in this field, offer new insights from a variety of perspectives: philological, philosophical, and historical. The subjects range from Islamic philosophy and theology, over the history of science, the transmission into other medieval cultures to language and literature. In addition to their specific discoveries, they give an impression of the dynamics of medieval Islamic intellectual history as well as of the diversity of approaches needed to understand this dynamics.

The Islamic World and the West
The Islamic World and the West

Author: Christoph Marcinkowski

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3643800010

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The Islamic World and the West - perhaps no other topic is currently so often present in the headlines of the international media. This timely volume, which brings together contributions by 14 established Muslim and Western scholars, intends to present a somewhat more positive outlook in the currently rather strained relations between the Islamic world and Europe by drawing on shared values and possibilities of cooperation in various fields, such as reflected in worldview, education, economics, multiculturalism, religious dialogue, politics, as well as security issues, and it shall also contain a historical revaluation of some of those contacts. It is the first project within the framework of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between Switzerland's University of Fribourg and the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) in Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, Malaysia's oldest university. Dr. Christoph Marcinkowski, is an award-winning scholar working interdisciplinary in Islamic and Middle Eastern, as well as Southeast Asian and Security Studies. He is currently Principal Research Fellow and Chairman of the Publications Committee at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS), a Malaysian think-tank, and concurrently Adjunct Professor at AEI.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 4 (1200-1350)
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 4 (1200-1350)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 9004228551

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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 4 (CMR 4) is a history of all the known works on Christian-Muslim relations in the period 1200-1350. It comprises introductory essays and detailed entries containing descriptions, assessments and compehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy
Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy

Author: Hans Daiber

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-12-31

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9047411692

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Since the publication of the author ́s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY in 1999 more than 3000 new books and articles in the field of Islamic philosophy, its Greek sources and its aftermath in European philosophy appeared and illustrate the increasing interest of the Islamic and the Western world. Philosophical thought as part of the Islamic culture became a medium in the dialogue between cultures and a tool for reflexion and methodology, which are indispensable for creativity and human behaviour. This supplement covers all new publications as far as they were available and could be included in the extensive index on authors, texts, translations and commentaries, and philosophical terms and concepts.

Before and After Avicenna
Before and After Avicenna

Author: Avicenna Study Group. Conference

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9789004129788

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This collection of papers addresses a variety of aspects of the life and thought of the medieval philosopher Avicenna including his reception of Classical philosophy, his views on topics such as metaphysics, psychology and medicine, and the recpeption of his thought by later authors.

Talking about God and Talking about Creation
Talking about God and Talking about Creation

Author: Rahim Acar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9047415922

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This study compares Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ conceptions of God, theological language, the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe. It emphasizes the connection between their positions regarding theological language and their discussions of creation.

Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition

Author: John Inglis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-09

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1135790884

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Provides a more balanced view of medieval philosophy, in contrast to the conventional neglect of Islamic and Jewish influences on medieval Latin-Christian thought Looks at the philosophy of the three great monotheistic traditions, unlike most standard works that discuss the history of single philosophical traditions Pays attention to the influence of Neoplatonism on the three traditions, an important topic in its own right

Across the Mediterranean Frontiers
Across the Mediterranean Frontiers

Author: Dionisius A. Agius

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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Using insights derived from the works of the great annaliste historian Fernand Braudel and those of David Abulafia, this volume aims at presenting a fully-rounded picture of the medieval Islamic Mediterranean between the years 650 and 1450. It ranges from discussions on Islamic Spain and Sicily through essays on economic and cultural exchange to an exapination of Islamic and western politics and religious thought. It also surveys work and warfare in some of the most fascinating centuries of the medieval period and concludes with a profound assessment of the Islamic sources and their transmission. This is a magistral work which no historian of the Mediterranean will wih to be without.

Averroes on Plato's "Republic"
Averroes on Plato's

Author: Averroes

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0801471648

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"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes of the Republic is to understand better the shari'a itself.... It is fair to say that in deciding to paraphrase the Republic, Averroes is asserting that his world—the world defined and governed by the Koran—can profit from Plato's instruction."—from Ralph Lerner’s IntroductionAn indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, Abu'l-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, also know by his his Latinized name, Averroes. This work played a major role in both the transmission and the adaptation of the Platonic tradition in the West. In a closely argued critical introduction, Ralph Lerner addresses several of the most important problems raised by the work.