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Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion
Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas
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Islamic intellectual thought is at the center of this collection of articles honoring Dimitri Gutas by friends, colleagues, and former students. The essays cover three main areas: the classical heritage and Islamic culture; classical Arabic science and philosophy; and Muslim traditional sciences. They show the interconnectedness between the Islamic intellectual tradition and its historical predecessors of Greek and Persian provenance, ranging from poetry to science and philosophy. Yet, at the same time, the authors demonstrate the independence of Muslim scholarship and the rich inner-Muslim debates that brought forth a flourishing scholastic culture in the sciences, philosophy, literature, and religious sciences. This collection also reflects the breadth of contemporary research on the intellectual traditions of Islamic civilization.
Contributors include: Amos Bertolacci, Kevin van Bladel, Gideon Bohak, Sonja Brentjes, Charles Burnett, Hans Daiber, Gerhard Endress, William Fortenbaugh, Beatrice Gruendler, Jules Janssens, David King, Yahya Michot, Suleiman Mourad, Racha Omari, Felicitas Opwis, David Reisman, Heinrich von Staden, Tony Street, Hidemi Takahashi, Alexander Treiger, and Robert Wisnovsky.
Contributors include: Amos Bertolacci, Kevin van Bladel, Gideon Bohak, Sonja Brentjes, Charles Burnett, Hans Daiber, Gerhard Endress, William Fortenbaugh, Beatrice Gruendler, Jules Janssens, David King, Yahya Michot, Suleiman Mourad, Racha Omari, Felicitas Opwis, David Reisman, Heinrich von Staden, Tony Street, Hidemi Takahashi, Alexander Treiger, and Robert Wisnovsky.
Felicitas Opwis, Ph.D. (2001) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Her publications address the development of Islamic legal theory in light of intellectual currents and historical environment.
David C. Reisman, Ph.D. (2001) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, has published extensively on Islamic philosphy, in particular on Avicenna and his intellectual reception.
David C. Reisman, Ph.D. (2001) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, has published extensively on Islamic philosphy, in particular on Avicenna and his intellectual reception.
"...a rich and wide-ranging volume."
Peter Adamson in Ilahiyat Studies 3.2 (2012).
"The shape of [this Festschrift] not only reflects this breadth of interests, but also speaks to the refreshingly old-fashioned values that its honouree has always insisted upon: hard work, due diligence, care and caution, and above all an attention to textual detail."
Taneli Kukkonen in Journal of Shiʿa Studies 6.2 (2013), 219-223.
Peter Adamson in Ilahiyat Studies 3.2 (2012).
"The shape of [this Festschrift] not only reflects this breadth of interests, but also speaks to the refreshingly old-fashioned values that its honouree has always insisted upon: hard work, due diligence, care and caution, and above all an attention to textual detail."
Taneli Kukkonen in Journal of Shiʿa Studies 6.2 (2013), 219-223.
1. Dedication
2. The Classical Heritage: Islamic Culture
2.1 Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar Ê¿Abd AllÄh ibn al-Faá¸l (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works, Hans Daiber
2.2 Aristo of Ceus: the Fragments concerning Eros, William W. Fortenbaugh
2.3 Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past, David Reisman
2.4 The Arabic History of Science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaḫt (fl. ca 770-809) and Its Middle Persian Sources, Kevin van Bladel
2.5 The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature, Heinrich von Staden
2.6 In Aristotleâs Words: al-ḤÄtimÄ«âs (?) Epistle on al-MutanabbÄ« and Aristotle, Beatrice Gruendler
2.7 The Prison of Categories â Decline and Its Company, Sonja Brentjes
2.8 Also via Istanbul to New Haven â Mss Yale Syriac 7-12, Hidemi Takahashi
3. Classical Arabic Science and Philosophy
3.1 A Judeo-Arabic Version of á¹®Äbit ibn Qurraâs De Imaginibus and Ptolemyâs Opus Imaginum, Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak
3.2 Ibn SiÌnaÌâs TaÊ¿lÄ«qÄt: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-commentaries on the IlÄhÄ«yÄt of the SÌifÄʾ, Jules Janssens
3.3 The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and Fact, David King
3.4 Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicennaâs Modal Syllogistic, Tony Street
3.5 The Distinction between Essence and Existence in Avicennaâs Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context, Amos Bertolacci
3.6 Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-KindiÌ als Epistolograph, Gerhard Endress
3.7 New Philosophical Texts of YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«: a Supplement to Endressâ Analytical Inventory, Robert Wisnovsky
3.8 Avicennaâs Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taÅ¡kÄ«k al-wuǧūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources, Alexander Treiger
4. Muslim Traditional Sciences
4.1 The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the QurʾÄn in MuÊ¿tazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahá¸Ä«b of al-ḤÄkim al-GÌisÌumÄ« (d. 494/1101), Suleiman Mourad
4.2 Attributing Causality to Godâs Law: the Solution of Faḫr ad-DÄ«n ar-RÄzÄ«, Felicitas Opwis
4.3 KitÄb al-Ḥayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text, Racha El Omari
4.4 From al-MaʾmÅ«n to Ibn SabÊ¿Ä«n via Avicenna: Ibn TaymÄ«yaâs Historiography of Falsafa, Yahya Michot
Index
2. The Classical Heritage: Islamic Culture
2.1 Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar Ê¿Abd AllÄh ibn al-Faá¸l (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works, Hans Daiber
2.2 Aristo of Ceus: the Fragments concerning Eros, William W. Fortenbaugh
2.3 Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past, David Reisman
2.4 The Arabic History of Science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaḫt (fl. ca 770-809) and Its Middle Persian Sources, Kevin van Bladel
2.5 The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature, Heinrich von Staden
2.6 In Aristotleâs Words: al-ḤÄtimÄ«âs (?) Epistle on al-MutanabbÄ« and Aristotle, Beatrice Gruendler
2.7 The Prison of Categories â Decline and Its Company, Sonja Brentjes
2.8 Also via Istanbul to New Haven â Mss Yale Syriac 7-12, Hidemi Takahashi
3. Classical Arabic Science and Philosophy
3.1 A Judeo-Arabic Version of á¹®Äbit ibn Qurraâs De Imaginibus and Ptolemyâs Opus Imaginum, Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak
3.2 Ibn SiÌnaÌâs TaÊ¿lÄ«qÄt: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-commentaries on the IlÄhÄ«yÄt of the SÌifÄʾ, Jules Janssens
3.3 The Invention of Algebra in Zabīd: Between Legend and Fact, David King
3.4 Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicennaâs Modal Syllogistic, Tony Street
3.5 The Distinction between Essence and Existence in Avicennaâs Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context, Amos Bertolacci
3.6 Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-KindiÌ als Epistolograph, Gerhard Endress
3.7 New Philosophical Texts of YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«: a Supplement to Endressâ Analytical Inventory, Robert Wisnovsky
3.8 Avicennaâs Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taÅ¡kÄ«k al-wuǧūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources, Alexander Treiger
4. Muslim Traditional Sciences
4.1 The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the QurʾÄn in MuÊ¿tazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahá¸Ä«b of al-ḤÄkim al-GÌisÌumÄ« (d. 494/1101), Suleiman Mourad
4.2 Attributing Causality to Godâs Law: the Solution of Faḫr ad-DÄ«n ar-RÄzÄ«, Felicitas Opwis
4.3 KitÄb al-Ḥayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text, Racha El Omari
4.4 From al-MaʾmÅ«n to Ibn SabÊ¿Ä«n via Avicenna: Ibn TaymÄ«yaâs Historiography of Falsafa, Yahya Michot
Index
This collection is of interest to scholars of Islamic intellectual thought, in particular the scholastic traditions of philosophy, science, literature, and the religious sciences.