Adamson, Peter,

The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries : Metaphysics and Theology / Metaphysics and Theology Peter Adamson, Fedor Benevich. - 1 online resource (740 pages) : illustrations. - Islamicate Intellectual History ; 12/1 Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 . - Islamicate Intellectual History ; 12/1. Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Copyright Page / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Acknowledgements / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Introduction / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 1 The Subject Matter of Metaphysics and Kalām / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 2 The Essence-Existence Distinction / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 3 Univocity and Equivocity of Existence / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 4 Non-Existence and Mental Existence / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 5 Universals / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 6 Platonic Forms / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 7 Individuation / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 8 Proofs for God’s Existence / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 9 God’s Essence / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 10 God’s Knowledge / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 11 God’s Knowledge of Particulars / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 12 Free Will, Determinism, and Human Action / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Chapter 13 Good and Evil / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich -- Index / Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich.

This is the first in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Avicenna was the dominant philosophical authority in this period, who provoked generations of thinkers to subtle critique, defense, and development of his ideas. The series will translate and analyze hundreds of passages from works by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and many more. This volume focuses especially on issues in metaphysics, dealing with topics like the essence-existence distinction, the problem of universals, free will and determinism, Platonic Forms, good and evil, proofs of God’s existence, and the relationship between philosophy and theology.


English

9789004503991

110.1163/9789004503991 DOI

2023031937


Creation (Islam)
Islamic philosophy.
Metaphysics.

B745.M4

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