Philosophy in the Islamic World PB
Peter Adamson
Paperback
9780198818618
This work presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership.
The book is divided into three sections, with the first looking at the first blossoming of Islamic theology and responses to the Greek philosophical tradition in the world of Arabic learning. This 'formative period' culminates with the work of Avicenna, the pivotal figure to whom most later thinkers feel they must respond. The second part of the book discusses philosophy in Muslim Spain (Andalusia), where Jewish philosophers come to the fore, though this is also the setting for such thinkers as Averroes and Ibn Arabi. Finally, a third section looks in unusual detail at later developments, touching on philosophy in the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires and showing how thinkers in the nineteenth to the twentieth century were still concerned to respond to the ideas that had animated philosophy in the Islamic world for centuries, while also responding to political and intellectual challenges from the European colonial powers.
Contents:
Part I. The Formative Period
1. The Straight Path - Philosophy and Islam
2. All for One - The Mu'tazilites
3. Founded in Translation - From Greek to Syriac to Arabic
4. Philosopher of the Arabs - al-Kindi
5. The Chosen Ones - Philosophy and Judaism
6. Reasoned Belief - Saadia Gaon
7. High Five - al-Razi
8. Aristotelian Society - The Baghdad School
9. The Second Master - al-Farabi
10. State of Mind - al-Farabi on Religion and Politics
11. Eye of the Beholder - Theories of Vision
12. Strings Attached - Music and Philosophy
13. Balancing Acts - Arabic Ethical Literature
14. Undercover Brothers - Philosophy and the Buyid Age
15. God Willing - The Ash'arites
16. The Self-Made Man - Avicenna's Life and Works
17. By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Avicenna on Existence
18. By All Means Necessary - Avicenna on God
19. Into Thin Air - Avicenna on the Soul
20. Special Delivery - al-Ghazali
21. Miracle Worker - al-Ghazali against the Philosophers
Part II. Andalusia
22. Philosophy's Reign in Spain - Andalusia
23. Laying Down the Law - Ibn Hazm and Islamic Legal Theory
24. Fantasy Island - Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl
25. Back to Basics - Averroes on Reason and Religion
26. Single Minded - Averroes on the Intellect
27. A Matter of Taste - Ibn 'Arabi and Sufism
28. Team Spirit - Ibn Khaldun
29. Matter over Mind - Ibn Gabirol
30. Choosing My Religion - Judah Hallevi
31. Born Under a Bad Sign - Freedom and Astrology in Jewish Philosophy
32. With All Your Heart - Ethics and Judaism
33. The Great Eagle - Maimonides
34. He Moves in Mysterious Ways - Maimonides on Eternity
35. Burnt Offerings. - The Maimonidean Controversy
36. Man and Superman - Gersonides and the Jewish Reception of Averroes
37. Neither the Time nor the Place - Hasdai Crescas
38. When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Suffering in Jewish Philosophy
39. Chariot of Fire - Kabbalah
40. A Matter of Principles - Joseph Also and Isaac Abravanel
Part III. The Later Traditions
41. Golden Ages - The Later Traditions
42. All Things Considered - Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
43. For the Sake of Argument - Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
44. Let There Be Light - Suhrawardi
45. Bright Ideas - Illuminationism
46. A Man for All Seasons - Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
47. To Be or Not To Be - Debating Avicenna's Metaphysics
48. Eyes Wide Shut - Rumi and Philosophical Sufism
49. Proof Positive - The Logical Tradition
50. By the Book - Ibn Taymiyya
51. Aftermath - Philosophy and Science in the Mongol Age
52. Family Feud - Philosophy at Shiraz
53. Follow the Leader - Philosophy under the Safavids
54. To Be, Continued - Mulla Sadra on Existence
55. Return to Sender - Mulla Sadra on Motion and Knowledge
56. Subcontinental Drift - Philosophy in Islamic India
57. Turkish Delights - Philosophy under the Ottomans
58. Blind Alley - Taqlid, Sufism, and Philosophy
59. The Young Ones - Encounters with European Thought
60. The Stronger Sex - Women Scholars in the Islamic World
61. All for One and One for All - Muhammad 'Abduh and Muhammad Iqbal
62. Iran So Far - The Heirs of Mulla Sadra