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The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that the present
Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every century from the ninth to the twentieth.
List of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contributors
- 1) Cristina D'Ancona
- The Theology attributed to Aristotle. Sources, structure, influence
- 2) Emma Gannagé
- The Rise of Falsafa: Al-Kindi (d.873), On First Philosophy
- 3) Peter Adamson
- Abu Bakr al-Razi (d.925), The Spiritual Medicine
- 4) Sarah Stroumsa
- Ibn Masarra's (d.931) Third Book
- 5) Damien Janos:
- Al-Farabi's (d.950) On the One and Oneness: Some Preliminary Remarks on its Structure, Contents, and Theological Implications
- 6) Sidney H. Griffith
- Yahya b. 'Adi (d.974): Kitab Tahdhib al-akhlaq
- 7) Amos Bertolacci
- Ibn Sina (d.1037): Metaphysics of the Shifa'
- 8) Khalil Andani
- Jami' al-hikmatayn, by Nasir-i Khusraw (d. 1088)
- 9) Frank Griffel
- Al-Ghazali's (d.1111) Incoherence of the Philosophers
- 10) Frank Griffel
- Isma'ilite Critique of Ibn Sina: Al-Shahrastani's (d.1153) Wrestling-Match with the Philosophers
- 11) Tanelli Kukkonen
- Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185): Hayy ibn Yaqzan
- 12) John Walbridge
- Suhrawardi's (d.1191) Intimations of the Tablet and the Throne: The Relationship of Illuminationism and the Peripatetic Philosophy
- 13) Catarina Belo
- Averroes (d.1198), The Decisive Treatise
- 14) Ayman Shihadeh
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's (d.1210) Commentary on Avicenna's Pointers: The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics
- 15) Jon McGinnis
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274): Shar? al-Ish?r?t
- 16) Tony Street
- Katibi (d.1277), Tahtani (d.1365) and the Shamsiyya
- 17) Alnoor Dhanani
- Al-Mawaqif fi 'ilm al-kalam by 'Alud al-din al-lji? (d.1355), and its commentaries
- 18) Sabine Schmidtke
- Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsai (fl. 1491) and his Kitab Mujli Mir'at al-munji
- 19) Reza Pourjavady
- Jalal al-Din al-Dawani (d. 908/1502), Glosses on 'Ala' al-Din al-Qushji's Commentary on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Tajrid al-i'tiqad
- 20) Sajjad Rizvi
- Mir Damad (d.1631) and al-Qabasat: The Problem of the Eternity of the Cosmos
- 21) Cecile Bonmariage
- Mulla Sadra's (d.1635) Divine Witnesses
- 22) Asad Q. Ahmed
- The Sullam al-'ulum of Muhibb Allah al-Bihari (d.1707)
- 23) Khaled El-Rouayheb
- Ahmad al-Mallawi (d. 1767): "Commentary on the versification of the immediate implications of hypothetical propositions"
- 24) J. McGinnis and A.Q. Ahmed
- Fadl-i Haqq Khayrabadi's (d.1861) al-Hadiyya al-sa'idiyya
- 25) Fatimeh Fena
- Hajj Mulla Hadi Sabzawari (d.1873) and the Ghurar al-fara'id
- 26) Nazif Muhtaroglu
- Ali Sedat Bey's (d.1900) Kavaid-i Tahavvülat fi Harekat-i Zerrat (Principles of Transformation in the Motion of Particles)
- 27) Mustansir Mir
- Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938): The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- 28) Saleh J. Agha
- Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (d.1979) on the Logical Foundations of Induction
- 29) Sajjad Rizvi and Ahab Bdaiwi
- 'Allama Tabatabai (d.1981), Nihayat al-hikma
- 30) Muhammad Ali Khalidi
- Zaki Najib Mahmud (d.1993), Nahwa Falsafa 'Ilmiyya (Towards a Scientific Philosophy)
- Index
About the author
Khaled El-Rouayheb is Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard University. He specializes in Islamic intellectual history from the thirteenth century to the eighteenth.
Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history.
Summary
The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that, unlike other reference works, the Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every century, from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook is also unique in that its 30 chapters are work-centered rather than person- or theme-centered, in particular taking advantage of recent new editions and translations that have renewed interest and debate around the Islamic philosophical canon.
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy gives both the advanced student and active scholar in Islamic philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, a strong sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like and a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at stake. Most importantly, it provides an up-to-date portrait of contemporary scholarship on Islamic philosophy.
