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YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«: Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians
Arabic text, English Translation and Commentary
Series: - Eastern Christian Texts, Volume: 1
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How do intellectual traditions interact? This is the fundamental question driving this book, which explores a case study set in the early Islamicate world: the Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians by the Christian-Arabic theologian and philosopher YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ« (d. 974). The book attempts to contextualise the treatise and its intellectual environment by exploring the interplay between philosophy, Christian theology and Islam. This volume includes a revised Arabic text of Samirâs 2015 edition, collated with the manuscript Tehran, Madrasa-yi MarwÄ« 19, recently discovered by prof. Robert Wisnovsky.
Giovanni Mandolino, Ph.D. (2020), University of Padua, is a researcher at that same university. He has published editions and translations of Medieval texts, as well as several articles on Eastern Christian tradition and Arabic philosophy.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Interpreting Early Arabic Christian Theology
1 State of the Research
â1.1âThe life of YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â1.2âStudies on YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â1.3âPrevious Scholarship on the Treatise on Divine Unity
2 An Analysis of the Contents of the Treatise on Divine Unity
â2.1âTitle, Authenticity and Date
â2.2âTopic and Purpose of the Treatise
â2.3âThe pars destruens: the Refuted Doctrines
â2.4âThe pars construens
â2.5âThe First Appendix, on the Public of the Treatise
â2.6âThe Second Appendix, concerning a Doubt and Its Solution
â2.7âOverall Remarks: Philosophical Method and Theology
3 YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«âs Critique of the Philosophical Conception of the First Principle
â3.1âThe Unity of the First Principle in al-KindÄ«âs On First Philosophy and Its Reprise in YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â3.2âThe Second Appendix of the Treatise in the Light of the Theory of the Three States of Existence
â3.3âYaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ« and al-FÄrÄbÄ« on Divine Unity
Final Remarks
Manuscript Transmission and Editions of the Treatise on Divine Unity
YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«. Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians
Arabic Text
English Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction: Interpreting Early Arabic Christian Theology
Part 1
1 State of the Research
â1.1âThe life of YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â1.2âStudies on YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â1.3âPrevious Scholarship on the Treatise on Divine Unity
2 An Analysis of the Contents of the Treatise on Divine Unity
â2.1âTitle, Authenticity and Date
â2.2âTopic and Purpose of the Treatise
â2.3âThe pars destruens: the Refuted Doctrines
â2.4âThe pars construens
â2.5âThe First Appendix, on the Public of the Treatise
â2.6âThe Second Appendix, concerning a Doubt and Its Solution
â2.7âOverall Remarks: Philosophical Method and Theology
3 YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«âs Critique of the Philosophical Conception of the First Principle
â3.1âThe Unity of the First Principle in al-KindÄ«âs On First Philosophy and Its Reprise in YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«
â3.2âThe Second Appendix of the Treatise in the Light of the Theory of the Three States of Existence
â3.3âYaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ« and al-FÄrÄbÄ« on Divine Unity
Final Remarks
Part 2
Manuscript Transmission and Editions of the Treatise on Divine Unity
YaḥyÄ ibn Ê¿AdÄ«. Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians
Arabic Text
English Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index
Mainly academic readership: university libraries in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities; scholars of Eastern Christianity, Late Antique and Arabic philosophy; post-graduate students.