Islamic theology and philosophy
Subtitle: studies in honor of George F. Hourani
By: edited by Michael E. Marmura
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780585065151
Subjects: Islamic philosophy; Islam; Doctrines; Philosophie islamique; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; General; PHILOSOPHY; Eastern; Islamische Theologie; Aufsatzsammlung; Islamische Philosophie; Bibliografie; Islamitische filosofie
Description: English and French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes: English and French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: A biographical sketch of George F. Hourani and a bibliography; title: Abu l-Hudhayl in contact : the genesis of an anecdote / Josef van Ess; title: Matériaux pour une bibliographie des Jubbaʼi : note complémentaire / Daniel Gimaret; title: Bodies and atoms : the Ash'arite analysis / Richard M. Frank; title: Un ouvrage de kalam ash'arite attribué à un contemporain d'al-Juwayni / Marie Bernand; title: Rahman et Rahim dans les Lawamiʼ al-bayyinat de Fakhr al-Din al-Razi / Georges C. Anawati; title: Ismaʼili and Druze cosmogony in relation to Plotinus and Aristotle / Sami N. Makarem; title: Siyasa in Islamic political philosophy / Fauzi M. Najjar; title: The rhetorician and his relationship to the community : three accounts of Aristotle's Rhetoric / Charles E. Butterworth; title: The subject-matter of metaphysics : Aristotle and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) / Majid Fakhry; title: Ibn Sina on single expressions / Shams Inati; title: Destiny revisited : Avicenna's concept of determinism / Alfred L. Ivry.; title: The metaphysics of efficient causality in Avicenna (Ibn Sina) / Michael E. Marmura; title: Remarks on Averroes' decisive treatise / Muhsin Mahdi; title: Eternity and origination : Averroes' discourse on the manner of the world's existence / Barry S. Kogan; title: ʻAbd al-Latif al-Baghadi's Epitome of the Kalam fi Mahd al-Khayr (Liber de Causis) / Richard C. Taylor; title: Afdal al-Din Kashani and the philosophical world of Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi / Seyyed Hossein Nasr; title: Theism, mysticism and scientific history in Ibn Khaldun / Fablou Shehadi.