Additional Sources on the Arabic tradition

Additional selected resources of particular value for this course:

• Herbert A. Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect. (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1992)

1. •Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
   

2. •Michael E. Marmura, Probing Islamic Philosophy: studies in the philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Other Major Muslim Thinkers (Binghamton: Global Academic Pub., 2005)
   

Encyclopedic and collective resources:

1. •The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy online (click HERE)
   

2. •History of Islamic Philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr & Oliver Leaman, eds. London & New York: Routledge, 2001.
   

3. •The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
   

4. • A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, J. J. E. Gracia and T. B. Noone, eds. Blackwell: Malden, MA, 2003.
   

Selected bibliographie are available in:

• The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

• Classical Arabic Philosophy. An Anthology of Sources, Jon McGinnis & David C. Reisman, tr. (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.. 2007)

For more comprehensive accounts see the bibliographies of Daiber and Druart at the “Resources” page. (Click on link at the top of this page.)

Some collections of translations:

• Classical Arabic Philosophy. An Anthology of Sources, Jon McGinnis & David C. Reisman, tr. (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.. 2007)

• Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, tr.. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

• Philosophy in the Middle Ages, A. Hyman and J. J. Walsh, eds. (Indianapolis: Hackette, 1973; 1983. Also new edition also edited by Thomas Williams

• Medieval Political Philosophy, R. Lerner & M. Mahdi, eds. (1973; 1983) and the new second edition 2010. Click HERE for the table of contents of the new edition.