A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Å ahrastÄnÄ«âs Account of Pythagoras and Its IsmÄÊ¿Ä«lÄ« Background

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Chapter 14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Å ahrastÄnÄ«âs Account of Pythagoras and Its IsmÄÊ¿Ä«lÄ« Background

äºReceived Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World

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The Arabic scholarly tradition produced several doxographies and gnomologies of ancient Greek thought in the Arabic language. In this paper, I will focus on al-Å ahrastÄnÄ«âs (d.Â 548/1153) Religions and Sects (al-Milal wa-l-niá¸¥al). Despite the popularity of the work and the scholarly attention it attracted, the final evaluation of Å ahrastÄnÄ«âs doxography in terms of its method and sources still remains a desideratum. I will avoid the generalizations inherent in the previous characterizations of the work. Instead, I will focus on the chapter on Pythagoras, carefully reading it sentence by sentence, attentively considering the philosophical import of each passage alongside its potential sources as well as the traces of (and reasons for) Å ahrastÄnÄ«âs reworking them. I will argue that Å ahrastÄnÄ« provides a systematic reconstruction of Pythagorean philosophy based on quotations and paraphrases from previous doxographies and of what he considers as contemporary Pythagoreanism (i.e. IsmÄÊ¿Ä«lÄ«sm). Religions and Sects will reveal itself both as a source for the Greek philosophical tradition and as a source of information on the Arabic philosophical tradition as such.

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Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World

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