Medieval Arabic thought : essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann /
Hansberger, Rotraud E.(Rotraud Elisabeth),1974-
al-Akiti, M. Afifi.
Burnett, Charles(Charles S. F.)
Zimmermann, F. W.
London : Warburg Institute ; Turin : Nino Aragno Editore,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson -- The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti -- Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock -- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone -- Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless -- Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand -- Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger -- Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung -- The absurdaties of infinite time: Shahrastānī's critique of Ibn Sīnā and Ṭūsī's defence / Goby Mayer -- The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christiam monks / Christopher Melchert -- The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen's On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann -- The working files of Rhazes: are the Jāmiʻ and the Ḥāwī identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji -- [Greek title] / Manfred Ullman -- On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight nights of al-Tawḥīdī's al-Imtāʻ wa-l-muʼānasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translations of Galen's On my own opinions in the philosophy reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig -- A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann -- Index of proper names.
Zimmermann, F. W.
Philosophy, Arab.
Islamic philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Islamic civilization.