Ideas in motion in Baghdad and beyond : : philosophical and theological exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries / / edited by Damien Janos.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 124
• TeilnehmendeR: Janos, Damien,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (489 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume contains a collection of articles focusing on the philosophical and theological exchanges between Muslim and Christian intellectuals living in Baghdad during the classical period of Islamic history, when this city was a vibrant center of philosophical, scientific, and literary activity. The philosophical accomplishments and contribution of Christians writing in Arabic and Syriac represent a crucial component of Islamic society during this period, but they have typically been studied in isolation from the development of mainstream Islamic philosophy. The present book aims for a more integrated approach by exploring case studies of philosophical and theological cross-pollination between the Christian and Muslim traditions, with an emphasis on the Baghdad School and its main representative, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Contributors: Carmela Baffioni, David Bennett, Gerhard Endress, Damien Janos, Olga Lizzini, Ute Pietruschka, Alexander Treiger, David Twetten, Orsolya Varsányi, John W. Watt, Robert Wisnovsky

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Damien Janos -- 1 The Syriac Aristotelian Tradition and the Syro-Arabic Baghdad Philosophers / John W. Watt -- 2 Palestinian Origenism and the Early History of the Maronites: In Search of the Origins of the Arabic Theology of Aristotle / Alexander Treiger -- 3 Some Observations about the Transmission of Popular Philosophy in Egyptian Monasteries after the Islamic Conquest / Ute Pietruschka -- 4 The Concept of ʿaql in Early Arabic Christian Theology: A Case for the Early Interaction between Philosophy and kalām / Orsolya Varsányi -- 5 “Active Nature” and Other Striking Features of Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus’s Cosmology as Reconstructed from His Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics / Damien Janos -- 6 Between Hellenism, Islam, and Christianity: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and His Controversies with Contemporary Muʿtazilite Theologians as Reported by the Ashʿarite Theologian and Philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / Philippe Vallat -- 7 Theology as a Rational Science: Aristotelian Philosophy, the Christian Trinity and Islamic Monotheism in the Thought of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī / Gerhard Endress -- 8 What Does Tawḥīd Mean? Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī’s Treatise on the Affirmation of the Unity of God between Philosophy and Theology / Olga Lizzini -- 9 Movement as “Discrete”: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī as a Source for the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ? / Carmela Baffioni -- 10 A Newly Discovered Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī Treatise against Atomism / David Bennett and Robert Wisnovsky -- 11 Aristotelian Cosmology and Causality in Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Greek Background / David Twetten -- Appendix -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Subjects.