Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Chester Beatty Library . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion: studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas

Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion: studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 9004202749 (hbk.)
9789004202740 (hbk.)
Title Islamic philosophy, science, culture, and religion : studies in honor of Dimitri Gutas / edited by Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
Physical desc. xii, 493 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Series Islamic philosophy, theology, and science 83
Note Series has subtitle: Texts and studies.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1: The classical heritage: Islamic culture. Graeco-Arabica Christiana: the Christian scholar ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl from Antiochia (11th c. A.D.) as transmitter of Greek works / Hans Daiber -- Aristo of Ceus: the fragments concerning Eros / William W. Fortenbaugh -- Professional medical ethics from a foreign past / David C. Reisman -- The Arabic history of science of Abū Sahl ibn Nawbaht (fl. ca 770-809) and its middle Persian sources / Kevin van Bladel -- The physiology and therapy of anger: Galen on medicine, the soul, and nature / Heinrich von Staden -- In Aristotle's words ... al-Ḥātimī's (?) Epistle on al-Mutanabbī and Aristotle / Beatrice Gruendler -- The prison of categories: 'Decline' and its company / Sonja Brentjes -- Also via Istanbul to New Haven: Mss. Yale Syriac 7-12 / Hidemi Takahashi -- Pt. 2: Classical Arabic science and philosophy. A Judeo-Arabic version of Tābit ibn Qurra's De imaginibus and pseudo-Ptolemy's Opus imaginum / Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak -- Ibn Sīnā's Taʻlīqāt: the presence of paraphrases of and super-commentaries on the Ilāhīyāt of the Šifāʾ / Jules Janssens -- The invention of Algebra in Zabīd: between legend and fact / David A. King -- Medieval and modern interpretations of Avicenna's Modal syllogistic / Tony Street -- The distinction of essence and existence in Avicenna's Metaphysics: the texts and its context / Amos Bertolacci -- Höfischer Stil und wissenschaftliche rhetorik: al-Kindī als epistolograph / Gerhard Endress -- New philosophical texts of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: a supplement to Endress' Analytical inventory / Robert Wisnovsky -- Avicenna's Notion of transcendental modulation of existence (taškīk al-wuğūd, analogia entis) and its Greek and Arabic sources / Alexander Treiger -- Pt. 3: Muslim traditional sciences. The revealed text and the intended subtext: notes on the hermeneutics of the Qurʾān in Muʿtazila discourse as reflected in the Tahdīb of al-Ḥakīm al-Ğišumī (d. 494/1101) / Suleiman A. Mourad -- Attributing causality to God's law: the solution of Fahr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī / Felicitas Opwis -- Kitāb al-Ḥayda: the historical significance of an apocryphal text / Racha El Omari -- From al-Maʾmūn to Ibn Sabʿīn via Avicenna: Ibn Taymīya's historiography of Falsafa / Yahya Michot.
Subject Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosphy -- Greek influences
Islamic civilization
Science -- Islamic Empire -- History
Added name(s) Gutas, Dimitri
Opwis, Felicitas Meta Maria ed.
Reisman, David C. ed.
Catalogue Information 16185 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 16185 Top of page .
Item Information
Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date
10010217 297.26 OPW
RL   . Available .  
. Catalogue Record 16185 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 16185 ItemInfo Top of page .