Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Ahmed Alwishah, Josh Hayes

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107101739
• eBook ISBN: 9781316397145
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy

This volume of essays by scholars in ancient Greek, medieval, and Arabic philosophy examines the full range of Aristotle's influence upon the Arabic tradition. It explores central themes from Aristotle's corpus, including logic, rhetoric and poetics, physics and meteorology, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and politics, and examines how these themes are investigated and developed by Arabic philosophers including al-Kindî, al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, al-Ghazâlî, Ibn Bâjja and Averroes. The volume also includes essays which explicitly focus upon the historical reception of Aristotle, from the time of the Greek and Syriac transmission of his texts into the Islamic world to the period of their integration and assimilation into Arabic philosophy. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the themes, development and context of Aristotle's enduring legacy within the Arabic tradition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 “Arisṭū ʿinda l„-ʿArab,”„ and beyond
• 2 The division of the categories according to Avicenna
• 3 What if that (is) why? Avicenna’s taxonomy of scientific inquiries
• 4 The Rhetoric and Poetics in the Islamic world
• 5 Al„-Fārābī„ and the Didascalia
• 6 Aristotle’s ‘physical’ works and the Arabic tradition
• 7 Defining nature: from Aristotle to Philoponus to Avicenna
• 8 Avicenna on self„-cognition„ and self-awareness
• 9 Averroes on intentionality and the human experience of the natural world
• 10 Metaphysics in the orbit of Islam
• 11 The Arabic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics
• 12 The shining and the hidden: notes on politics and solitude from the “Greek Prophets” to al-Fārābī
• References
• Index