Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy in the Islamic world / Peter Adamson.

Author

Adamson, Peter, 1972-

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxi, 511 pages : maps; 25 cm

Series Statement

• A history of philosophy without any gaps ; volume 3
• Adamson, Peter, 1972- History of philosophy without any gaps ; v. 3.

Subject

• Islamic philosophy > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-502) and index.

Contents

The straight path : philosophy and Islam -- All for one : the Muʻtazilites -- Founded in translation : from Greek to Syriac to Arabic -- Philosopher of the Arabs : al-Kindī -- The chosen ones : philosophy and Judaism -- Reasoned belief : Saadia Gaon -- High five : al-Rāzī -- Aristotelian society : the Baghdad school -- The second master : al-Fārābī -- State of mind : al-Fārābī on religion and politics -- Eye of the beholder : theories of vision -- Strings attached : music and philosophy -- Balancing acts : Arabic ethical literature -- Undercover brothers : philosophy in the Būyid age -- God willing : the Ashʻarites -- The self-made man : Avicenna's life and works -- By the time I get to Phoenix : Avicenna on existence -- By all means necessary : Avicenna on God -- Into thin air : Avicenna on the soul -- Special delivery : al-Ghazālī -- Miracle worker : al-Ghazālī against the philosophers -- Philosophy's reign in Spain : Andalusia -- Laying down the law : Ibn Ḥazm and Islamic legal theory -- Fantasy island : Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl -- Back to basics : Averroes on reason and religion -- Single minded : Averroes on the intellect -- A matter of taste : Ibn ʻArabī and Sufism -- Team spirit : Ibn Khaldūn -- Matter over mind : Ibn Gabirol -- Choosing my religion : Judah Halevi -- Born under a bad sign : freedom and astrology in Jewish philosophy -- With all your heart : ethics in Jewish philosophy -- The great eagle : Maimonides -- He moves in mysterious ways : Maimonides on eternity -- Burnt offerings : the Maimonidean controversy -- Man and superman : Gersonides and the Jewish reception of Averroes -- Neither the time nor the place : Ḥasdai Crescas -- When bad things happen to good people : suffering in Jewish philosophy -- Chariot of fire : Kabbalah -- A matter of principles : Joseph Albo and Isaac Abravanel -- Golden ages : the later traditions -- All things considered : Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī -- For the sake of argument : Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī -- Let there be light : Suhrawardī -- Bright ideas : illuminationism -- A man for all seasons : Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī -- To be or not to be : debating Avicenna's metaphysics -- Eyes wide shut : Rūmī and philosophical Sufism -- Proof positive : the logical tradition -- By the book : Ibn Taymiyya -- Aftermath : philosophy and science in the Mongol age -- Family feud : philosophy at Shīrāz -- Follow the leader : philosophy under the Safavids -- To be, continued : Mullā Ṣadrā on existence -- Return to sender : Mullā Ṣadrā on motion and knowledge -- Subcontinental drift : philosophy in Islamic India -- Turkish delights : philosophy under the Ottomans -- Blind alley : Taqlīd, Sufism, and philosophy -- The young ones : encounters with European thought -- The stronger sex : women scholars in the Islamic world -- All for one and one for All : Muḥammad ʻAbduh and Muḥammad Iqbāl -- Iran so far : the heirs of Mullā Ṣadrā.

Call Number

JFE 16-9560

ISBN

• 0199577498
• 9780199577491

LCCN

2015937779

OCLC

936410933

Author

Adamson, Peter, 1972- author.

Title

Philosophy in the Islamic world / Peter Adamson.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A history of philosophy without any gaps ; volume 3

Adamson, Peter, 1972- History of philosophy without any gaps ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-502) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9560