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A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with details of biography and doctrine as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author's works.
About the author
Ulrich Rudolph is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Zürich. His primary areas of interest are the history of philosophy in the Islamic world and Islamic theology. He has published numerous monographs and articles in these fields, including
Die Doxographie des Pseudo-Ammonios, Occasionalismus: Theorien der Kausalität im arabischen-islamischen und im lateinischen Denken (co-authored with Dominik Perler) and
Al-Māturīdī und die sunnitische Theologie in Samarkand, the latter being translated into several languages. He is the editor of the German original of the work published here in English, entitled
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt: 8.-10. Jahrhundert.
Rotraud Hansberger (D.Phil. in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, LMU Munich. Her main areas of research are the Graeco-Arabic transmission and medieval Arabic philosophy, with a particular focus on philosophical psychology.
Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Antique and Islamic Philosophy at LMU Munich. His primary areas of interest are in late ancient philosophy and Arabic philosophy. He has written monographs on the Arabic version of Plotinus, the so-called "Theology of Aristotle," and on al-Kindi. He has devoted articles to many figures of the Greek and Arabic traditions, and edited and co-edited numerous books, including
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, and
Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essaysfor Cambridge University Press. He is also the author of the book series
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, with Oxford University Press.
Contributors: Peter Adamson, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Hans Daiber, Daniel De Smet, Gerhard Endress, Cleophea Ferrari, Dimitri Gutas, Paraskevi Kotzia, Eva Orthmann, Ulrich Rudolph, Elvira Wakelnig.
