edited by Richard C. Taylor and Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
xvii, 433 pages ;
26 cm
Routledge philosophy companions
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. Philosophical issues in Islamic revelation and theology. God and creation in al-Rāzī's commentary on the Qur'ān / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth -- Reasoning in the Qur'ān / Rosalind Ward Gwynne -- Ethical issues in the Qur'ān and Ḥadīth / Azim Nanji -- Human reason in Islamic theology / Toby Mayer -- Jurisprudence and political philosophy in medieval Islam / Rumee Ahmed -- Part II. Logic, language, and the structure of science. Logic and language / Thérèse-Anne Druart -- Rhetoric, poetics, and the organon / Terence Kleven -- Demonstration and dialectic in Islamic philosophy / Allan Bäck -- The structure and methods of the sciences / Anna A. Akasoy and Alexander Fidora -- Part III. Philosophy in the natural sciences. The establishment of the principles of natural philosophy / Jon McGinnis -- Causality in Islamic philosophy / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- The eternity of the world / Cristina Cerami -- Arabic cosmology and the physics of cosmic motion / David Twetten -- Body, soul, and sense in nature / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- Part IV. Metaphysics. Establishing the science of metaphysics / Amos Bertolacci -- Forms of hylomorphism / Sarah Pessin -- Essence and existence in Ibn Sīnā / Rollen E. Houser -- Primary and secondary causality / Richard C. Taylor -- Metaphysics of God / Jules Janssens -- Creation in Islam from the Qur'ān to al-Fārābī / Michael Chase -- Part V. Epistemology and philosophy of mind. External and internal human senses / Carla Di Martino -- The epistemology of abstraction / Richard C. Taylor -- Human knowledge and separate intellect / Olga Lizzini -- Intellect and the intelligible in unity / Cécile Bonmariage -- Part VI. Ethics and political philosophy. The ethics and metaphysics of divine command theory / Mariam Al-Attar -- Freedom and determinism / Catarina Belo -- Principles of the philosophy of state / Philippe Vallat -- Natural and revealed religion / Nadja Germann -- Law and society / Steven Harvey -- The ethical treatment of animals / Peter Adamson -- Part VII. Philosophy, religion, and mysticism. Philosophy and prophecy / Frank Griffel -- Philosophical Sufism / Mohammed Rustom -- Religious readings of philosophy / Ayman Shihadeh
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"Recent publications focused on Arabic/Islamic philosophy have traditionally considered this under the history of ideas and Oriental or Islamic studies. There is a need for a comprehensive collection of essays that treats Islamic philosophy as philosophy, and not merely as a conduit of intellectual history for delivering ideas from the ancient Greeks to medieval Christians. With this aim, The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is conceived as a well-structured and wide-ranging thematic approach, accessible for a broad spectrum of readers, from students to scholars interested in Islamic thought, philosophy, theology, and religious studies"--