The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us. All essays were initially presented and discussed at an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin in October 2014. More than isolated case studies, the contributions offer ground-breaking new research on essential works and figures of the early translation movement (from Greek, Syriac and Middle-Persian into Arabic). They also address, from the viewpoints of intertextuality and philology, the dissemination process of innovative syntheses elaborated by original medieval thinkers.
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Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers
Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Transliteration and Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Abstracts
- Introduction: The Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers as Sapiential Figures
- This World and the Next: al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) on the Wisdom of Rule by Islam
- The Image of the Sage in Pseudo-Ammonius’ Ārāʼ al-Falāsifa
- Kingship, Wisdom, and Knowledge in the Arabic Alexander Romance
- “Give us immortality!”: The Contest between Alexander and the Brahmans in the Arabic Tradition
- Die Wurzeln der politischen Theorie des Islam
- Wild Lions and Wise Jackals: Killer Kings and Clever Counsellors in Kalīla wa-Dimna
- La Sagesse du prince dans le Kitāb al-Išāra ilā adab al-imāra d’Abū Bakr al-Murādī (m. 489/1095)*
- Die Hundert Sprüche ʻAlīs1
- Das Stilmittel der Chrie im veränderten arabischen Kontext
- Aphorisms engraved in philosophers’ signet-rings: Ps-Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq’s Ādāb al-falāsifa and Persian-Arabic Wisdom Literatu e
- Retour sur la biographie de Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (m. 873) : Que nous apprend un manuscrit inédit du Ādāb al-Falāsifa?
- Index of names
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