Philosophy in the Islamic world /
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Adamson, Peter, 1972- History of philosophy without any gaps ;
v. 3. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The straight path : philosophy and Islam
- All for one : the Muʻtazilites
- Founded in translation : from Greek to Syriac to Arabic
- Philosopher of the Arabs : al-Kindī
- The chosen ones : philosophy and Judaism
- Reasoned belief : Saadia Gaon
- High five : al-Rāzī
- Aristotelian society : the Baghdad school
- The second master : al-Fārābī
- State of mind : al-Fārābī on religion and politics
- Eye of the beholder : theories of vision
- Strings attached : music and philosophy
- Balancing acts : Arabic ethical literature
- Undercover brothers : philosophy in the Būyid age
- God willing : the Ashʻarites
- The self-made man : Avicenna's life and works
- By the time I get to Phoenix : Avicenna on existence
- By all means necessary : Avicenna on God
- Into thin air : Avicenna on the soul
- Special delivery : al-Ghazālī
- Miracle worker : al-Ghazālī against the philosophers
- Philosophy's reign in Spain : Andalusia
- Laying down the law : Ibn Ḥazm and Islamic legal theory
- Fantasy island : Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl
- Back to basics : Averroes on reason and religion
- Single minded : Averroes on the intellect
- A matter of taste : Ibn ʻArabī and Sufism
- Team spirit : Ibn Khaldūn
- Matter over mind : Ibn Gabirol
- Choosing my religion : Judah Halevi
- Born under a bad sign : freedom and astrology in Jewish philosophy
- With all your heart : ethics in Jewish philosophy
- The great eagle : Maimonides
- He moves in mysterious ways : Maimonides on eternity
- Burnt offerings : the Maimonidean controversy
- Man and superman : Gersonides and the Jewish reception of Averroes
- Neither the time nor the place : Ḥasdai Crescas
- When bad things happen to good people : suffering in Jewish philosophy
- Chariot of fire : Kabbalah
- A matter of principles : Joseph Albo and Isaac Abravanel
- Golden ages : the later traditions
- All things considered : Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
- For the sake of argument : Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī
- Let there be light : Suhrawardī
- Bright ideas : illuminationism
- A man for all seasons : Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
- To be or not to be : debating Avicenna's metaphysics
- Eyes wide shut : Rūmī and philosophical Sufism
- Proof positive : the logical tradition
- By the book : Ibn Taymiyya
- Aftermath : philosophy and science in the Mongol age
- Family feud : philosophy at Shīrāz
- Follow the leader : philosophy under the Safavids
- To be, continued : Mullā Ṣadrā on existence
- Return to sender : Mullā Ṣadrā on motion and knowledge
- Subcontinental drift : philosophy in Islamic India
- Turkish delights : philosophy under the Ottomans
- Blind alley : Taqlīd, Sufism, and philosophy
- The young ones : encounters with European thought
- The stronger sex : women scholars in the Islamic world
- All for one and one for All : Muḥammad ʻAbduh and Muḥammad Iqbāl
- Iran so far : the heirs of Mullā Ṣadrā.