In the Age of Averroes

In the Age of Averroes

Author: Peter Adamson

Publisher: Warburg Institute

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780854811540

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A collection of 13 papers by leading scholars that looks at philosophical literature of the 12th century. It features several contributors who discuss the most famous thinker of the period, the great commentator Averroes. It also includes figures such as: al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi, and Suhrawardi.


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.


Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West

Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West

Author: Paul J.J.M. Bakker

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 946270046X

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CONTENTS Paul J.J.M BakkerIntroduction Cristina CeramiL’éternel par soi Jean-Baptiste BrenetAlexandre d’Aphrodise ou le matérialiste malgré lui Dag Nikolaus HasseAverroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun andAgostino Nifo Silvia DonatiIs Celestial Motion a Natural Motion? Cecilia TrifogliThe Reception of Averroes’ View on Motion in the Latin West Edith Dudley SyllaAverroes and Fourteenth-Century Theories of Alteration Craig MartinProvidence and Seventeenth-Century Attacks on Averroes Bibliography Index Codicum Manu ScriptorumIndex Nominum


Interpreting Averroes

Interpreting Averroes

Author: Peter Adamson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1107114888

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Engages with all aspects of Averroes' philosophy, from his thinking on Aristotle to his influence on Islamic law.


The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes

The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes

Author: Averroës

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-03

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This book describes the correlation which exists between religion and philosophy, the nature of external knowledge, and methods of argument and faith. It reveals the in-depth knowledge based on a collection of short works on religion by Averroës.


History Of Islamic Philosophy

History Of Islamic Philosophy

Author: Henry Corbin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1135198896

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Avicenna and His Legacy

Avicenna and His Legacy

Author: Y. Tzvi Langermann

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503527536

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The centuries immediately following upon the monumental achievements of Avicenna (d. 1036) have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by the master. Critical thinking in logic and astronomy, medicine and metaphysics spurred many new developments. This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and his critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. The contributors to Avicenna and his Legacy include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation.


The Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World

The Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World

Author: Vittorio Cotesta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 9004464727

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Vittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The comparative analysis carried out here suggests that they all shared a common human aspiration despite their differences: human being is unique; differences are details which enrich its image. Today, the traditions derived from these civilisations are often in competition and conflict. Reference to a common vision of humanity as a shared universal entity should lead, instead, to a quest for understanding and dialogue.


Averroes, the Decisive Treatise

Averroes, the Decisive Treatise

Author: Averroës

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9781463206383

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The Decisive Treatise is perhaps the most controversial work of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) and belongs to a trilogy which boldly represent the philosophical contribution to Islamic theology of this famous Andalusian commentator on Aristotle. The Decisive Treatise is a fatwa (a legal opinion) that the judge, Averroes, promulgated for his fellow Malikite jurists in order to demonstrate that the study of philosophy is not only licit from the point of view of religious law, but even mandatory for the skilled people. However, many subjects are dealt with in this comparatively short book: An epistemology aimed to show that philosophical truth and religious truth are not in contradiction; a sociology of knowledge pointing out that humans are classified in three classes (philosophers, theologians, common folk); a Qur'anic hermeneutics suggesting how to approach philosophically the Holy Book in agreement with religious requirements and linguistic rules.


Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Author: Yehuda Halper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9004468765

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Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.