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The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy

Richard C. Taylor & Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, eds.

Routledge August 2015

See https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415881609.

33 articles by 31 different authors

DESCRIPTION

In this volume falsafah or philosophy in the Islamic milieu take its proper place alongside the study of Ancient Greek philosophy or Medieval Christian or Jewish philosophy today. Our intention is that philosophy in the Islamic context be made part of the common philosophical conversation on perennial issues without neglect of its specific content. Hence, while the philosophical writings of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas or others offer insights into perennial issues important today without neglect of historical or cultural background, the case is no different for philosophical teachings by thinkers of the Islamic tradition, whose contributions are universal but need to be understood in the context of the historical setting from which they arose. To this extent we seek to make it evident with this volume that there is a place for what is commonly called Islamic philosophy in both the history of Western philosophy and in the study of the ongoing issues of philosophy in classrooms today.

EDITORS  

Richard C. Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and also a member of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre of the Philosophy Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has worked extensively on the philosophical thought of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and other thinkers of the Arabic tradition and also on the importance of the Arabic tradition in Latin translation. He translated into English Averroes's Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle (sub-editor, Th.-A. Druart) published by Yale University Press in 2009.

Luis Xavier López-Farjeat is Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. He has written on Arabic Medieval Philosophy and is co-editor of the volume Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century (Vrin, 2013). He is currently working with R. E. Houser and Richard C. Taylor on two volumes on the importance of the Arabic philosophical tradition in the thought of Thomas Aquinas for publication by Cambridge University Press. He is associate director of the Aquinas and ‘The Arabs’ International Working Group (www.AquinasAndTheArabs.org).

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

RICHARD C. TAYLOR & LUIS XAVIER LÓPEZ-FARJEAT

PART I

Philosophical Issues in Islamic Revelation and Theology

1. God and Creation in al-Rāzī’s Commentary on the Qur’ān

MAHA ELKAISY-FRIEMUTH

2. Reasoning in the Qur’ān

ROSALIND WARD GWYNE

3. Ethical Issues in the Qur’ān and Ḥadīth

AZIM NANJI

4. Human Reason in Islamic Theology

TOBY MAYER

5. Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy in Islam

RUMEE AHMED

PART II

Logic, Language and the Structure of Science

1. Logic and Language

THÉRÈSE-ANNE DRUART

2. Rhetoric, Poetics and the Organon

TERENCE KLEVEN

3. Demonstration and Dialectic in Islamic Philosophy

ALLAN BÄCK

4. The Structure and Methods of the Sciences

ANNA A. AKASOY & ALEXANDER FIDORA

PART III

Philosophy in the Natural Sciences

1. The Establishment of the Principles of Natural Philosophy

JON MCGINNIS

2. Causality in Islamic Philosophy

LUIS XAVIER LÓPEZ-FARJEAT

3. The Eternity of the World

CRISTINA CERAMI

4. Arabic Cosmology and the Physics of Cosmic Motion

DAVID TWETTEN

5. Body, Soul, and Sense in Nature

LUIS XAVIER LÓPEZ-FARJEAT

PART IV

Metaphysics

1. Establishing the Science of Metaphysics

AMOS BERTOLACCI

2. Forms of Hylomorphism

SARAH PESSIN

3. Essence and Existence in Ibn Sīnā

ROLLEN E. HOUSER

4. Primary and Secondary Causality

RICHARD C. TAYLOR

5. Metaphysics of God

JULES JANSSENS

6. Creation in Islam from the Qur’ān to al-Fārābī

MICHAEL CHASE

PART V

Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

1. External and Internal Human Senses

CARLA DI MARTINO

2. The Epistemology of Abstraction

RICHARD C. TAYLOR

3. Human Knowledge and Separate Intellect

OLGA LIZZINI

4. Intellect and the Intelligible in Unity

CÉCILE BONMARIAGE

PART VI

Ethics and Political Philosophy

1. The Ethics and Metaphysics of Divine Command Theory

MARIAM AL-ATTAR

2. Freedom and Determinism

CATARINA BELO

3. Principles of the Philosophy of State

PHILIPPE VALLAT

4. Natural and Revealed Religion

NADJA GERMANN

5. Law and Society

STEVEN HARVEY

6. The Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETER ADAMSON

PART VII

Philosophy, Religion and Mysticism

1. Philosophy and Prophecy

FRANK GRIFFEL

2. Philosophical Sufism

MOHAMMED RUSTOM

3. Religious Readings of Philosophy

AYMAN SHIHADEH