This monograph deals with the entry made by Greek philosophy into the Arab Near East, the mixed reception it received, and the way it was incorporated by philosophers of Islam. The 24 papers contained in the volume seek to illustrate and substantiate the claim, contrary to the claims of some scholars, that Arabic-Islamic philosophy was not a replica of Greek philosophy, lacking on that account any measure of independence or originality. Read in conjunction with the author's two collections of studies in Arabic, published in 1970/82 and 1994, and his "History of Islamic Philosophy", 1970/83, these papers exhibit the authors findings and reflections on the interactions of philosophy and dogma in Islam.
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978-0-86078-447-0 (9780860784470)
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The Arabs and the encounter with philosophy; philosophy and history; al-Farabi's contribution to the development of Aristotelian logic; the contemplative ideal in Islamic philosophy - Aristotle and Avicenna; al-Farabi and the reconciliation of Plato and Aristotle; a 10th-century Arabic interpretation of Plato's cosmology; al-Biruni and Greek philosophy - an essay on philosophical erudition; the Platonism of Miskawayh and its implications for his ethics; the ontological argument in the Arabic tradition - the case of al-Farabi; the devolution of the perfect state - Plato, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Khaldun; some apophthegms of Aristotle in classical Arabic sources and their relation to the "Protrepticus"; the subject matter of metaphysics - Aristotle and Ibn Sina; the classical Islamic arguments for the existence of God; some paradoxical implications of the Mu'tazilite view of free will; the antinomy of the eternity of the world in Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas; philosophy and scripture in the theology of Averroes; al-Suhrawardi's critique of the Muslim Peripatetics(al-Mashsha'un); the liberal arts in the medieval Arabic tradition from the 7th to the 12th centuries; three varieties of mysticism in Islam; justice in Islamic philosophical ethics - Miskawayh's mediating contribution; the Mu'tazilite view of man; the materialism of Shibli Shumayyil; the theocratic idea of the Islamic state in recent controversies; humanism and modernity in the Arab world today.
