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Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I
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Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam
Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I
About this book
The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (De anima, Themistius on the Metaphysics, Plotinus in Syriac, 'anniya) and the terminology of early kalam. Other articles deal with Islamic theology and its early development, especially in its relation to philosophy (in particular the kalam of Jahm ibn Safwan and al-Ghazali), and the text and translation of two short dogmatic works by the mystic al-Qushayri. The collection is prefaced by a fascinating autobiographical memoir which traces the intellectual development of the author and the reasoning that led him, from study to study, to his discovery of the way of thinking of the theologians and to an understanding of the essential core of Islamic theology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- I: Yā Kalām
- II: Some Fragments of Isḥāq's Translation of the De Anima
- III: Some Textual Notes on the Oriental Versions of Themistius’ Paraphrase of Book A of the Metaphysics
- IV: The Origin of the Arabic Philosophical Term 'Annīya
- V: The Use of the Enneads by John of Scythopolis
- VI: Remarks on the Early Development of the Kalām
- VII: Reason and Revealed Law: A Sample of Parallels and Divergences in Kalām and Falsafa
- VIII: Currents and Countercurrents [In the Mu‘tazila, Ash'arites and Al-Ghazālī]
- IX: The Neoplatonism of Jahm Ibn Ṣafwān
- X: Al-Ghazālī on Taqlīd. Scholars, Theologians, and Philosophers
- XI: Al-Ghazālī's use of Avicenna's Philosophy
- XII: Meanings are Spoken of in Many Ways: The Earlier Arab Grammarians
- XIII: "Lam Yazal" as a Formal Term in Muslim Theological Discourse
- XIV: Two Short Dogmatic Works of Abū l-Qāsim Al-Qushayrī, Part 1: Edition and Translation of Luma 'fī l-i 'Tiqād
- XV: Two Short Dogmatic Works of Abū l-Qāsim Al-Qushayrī, Part 2: Edition and Translation of al-Fuṣūl Fī l-uṣūl
- Index