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.
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....
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| Superior document: | Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 124 |
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| 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. |
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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.