The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy
Richard C. Taylor & Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, eds.
Routledge 2015
The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy
Richard C. Taylor & Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, eds.
Routledge 2015
See https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415881609
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