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Muhammad
Ali Khalidi, ed.
Medieval
Islamic Philosophical Writings.
Cambridge
U.P., 2005.
Cambridge
Texts in the History of Philosophy series.
236pp.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback ISBN-10: 0521822432 | ISBN-13: 9780521822435, £40.00
Paperback ISBN-10: 0521529638 | ISBN-13: 9780521529631, £16.99
Also available in eBook format.
Philosophy in the Islamic
world emerged in the ninth century and continued to flourish into the
fourteenth century. It was strongly influenced by Greek thought, but
Islamic philosophers also developed an original philosophical culture
of their own, which had a considerable impact on the subsequent course
of Western philosophy. This volume offers new translations of
philosophical writings by Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ghazali, Ibn
Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). All of the texts presented here were
very influential and invite comparison with later works in the Western
tradition. They focus on metaphysics and epistemology but also
contribute to broader debates concerning the conception of God, the
nature of religion, the place of humanity in the universe, and the
limits of human reason. A historical and philosophical introduction
sets the writings in context and traces their preoccupations and their
achievement.
Contents
Farabi, The Book of Letters;
Ibn Sina, On the Soul;
Ghazali, The Rescuer from Error;
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy bi Yaqzan;
Ibn Rushd, The Incoherence of the
Incoherence.
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