Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context.

Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context. / Volume 2, : Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World / / ed. by Nadja Germann, Mostafa Najafi.

What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contras...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bennett, David,
Bouhafa, Feriel,
Germann, Nadja,
Gleave, Robert,
Ibrahim, Bilal,
Key, Alexander,
Owens, Jonathan,
Rivera Calero, Noel A.,
Street, Tony,
Vishanoff, David R.,
Yunis Ali, Mohamed Mohamed,
HerausgeberIn:
Germann, Nadja,
Najafi, Mostafa,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context ; Volume 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 343 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Cognisable Content: The Work of the Maʿnā in Early Muʿtazilī Theory
  • The Voie Diffuse and Reconstruction: The De Audibilibus and Sībawayhi’s Account of Voicing
  • The Causes of Grammar: Ibn Jinnī on the Nature of Language
  • Notes around Ambiguity: Ibn Sīnā’s Logic, ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Poetics, Rāghib’s Two-Meanings-at-One-Time, and the Figures of Ibhām, Istikhdām, and Tawriya
  • The Reception of Pointers 1.6 in Thirteenth- Century Logic: On the Expression’s Signification of Meaning
  • Reason and Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Ashʿarī Tradition
  • Informative and Performative Theories of Divine Speech in Classical Islamic Legal Theory
  • Understanding Divine Intention: “Conversational Maxims” and the Legal Theory of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1067)
  • After Adam: Ibn ʿAqīl on Language Origin, Change, and Expansion
  • Reclassification of Linguistic Meaning: An Integrated Approach
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subject

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