Ideas in motion in Baghdad and beyond : philosophical and theological exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries /

Ideas in motion in Baghdad and beyond : philosophical and theological exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries /

This volume contains a collection of articles focusing on the philosophical and theological exchanges between Muslim and Christian intellectuals living in Baghdad during the classical period of Islamic history, when this city was a vibrant center of philosophical, scientific, and literary activity....

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Other Authors: Janos, Damien.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 124.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303935.

Subjects:

Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Islamic philosophy.
Christian philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval > Islamic influences.

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Call Number: BP172 .I348 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Damien Janos
  • 1 The Syriac Aristotelian Tradition and the Syro-Arabic Baghdad Philosophers /
  • John W. Watt
  • 2 Palestinian Origenism and the Early History of the Maronites: In Search of the Origins of the Arabic Theology of Aristotle /
  • Alexander Treiger
  • 3 Some Observations about the Transmission of Popular Philosophy in Egyptian Monasteries after the Islamic Conquest /
  • Ute Pietruschka
  • 4 The Concept of ʿaql in Early Arabic Christian Theology: A Case for the Early Interaction between Philosophy and kalām /
  • Orsolya Varsányi
  • 5 "Active Nature" and Other Striking Features of Abū Bishr Mattā ibn Yūnus's Cosmology as Reconstructed from His Commentary on Aristotle's Physics /
  • Damien Janos
  • 6 Between Hellenism, Islam, and Christianity: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and His Controversies with Contemporary Muʿtazilite Theologians as Reported by the Ashʿarite Theologian and Philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī /
  • Philippe Vallat
  • 7 Theology as a Rational Science: Aristotelian Philosophy, the Christian Trinity and Islamic Monotheism in the Thought of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī /
  • Gerhard Endress
  • 8 What Does Tawḥīd Mean? Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī's Treatise on the Affirmation of the Unity of God between Philosophy and Theology /
  • Olga Lizzini
  • 9 Movement as "Discrete": Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī as a Source for the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ? /
  • Carmela Baffioni
  • 10 A Newly Discovered Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī Treatise against Atomism /
  • David Bennett and Robert Wisnovsky
  • 11 Aristotelian Cosmology and Causality in Classical Arabic Philosophy and Its Greek Background /
  • David Twetten
  • Appendix
  • Index of Names and Places
  • Index of Subjects.