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Islamic philosophy, theology and science ; v. 83

Part I. The Classical Heritage: Islamic Culture. 1. Graeco-Arabica Christiana: The Christian Scholar Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl (11th c. A.D.) as Transmitter of Greek Works / Hans Daiber

- 2. Aristo of Ceus: the Fragments concerning Eros / William W. Fortenbaugh

- 3. Professional Medical Ethics from a Foreign Past / David Reisman

- 4. The Arabic History of Science of Abu Sahl ibn Nawbaht (fl. ca 770-809) and Its Middle Persian Sources / Kevin van Bladel

- 5. The Physiology and Therapy of Anger: Galen on Medicine, the Soul, and Nature / Heinrich von Staden

- 6. In Aristotleʹs Words: al-Hatimiʹs Epistle on al-Mutanabbi and Aristotle / Beatrice Gruendler

- 7. The Prison of Categories

Decline and Its Company / Sonja Brentjes

- 8. Also via Istanbul to New Haven

Mss Yale Syriac 7-12 / Hidemi Takahashi

Part II. Classical Arabic Science and Philosophy. 1. A Judeo-Arabic Version of Tabit ibn Qurraʹs De Imaginibus and Ptolemyʹs Opus Imaginum / Charles Burnett and Gideon Bohak

- 2. Ibn Sinaʹs Taliqat: The Presence of Paraphrases of and Super-commentaries on the Ilahiyat of the Sifa / Jules Janssens

- 3. The Invention of Algebra in Zabid: Between Legend and Fact / David King

- 4. Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Avicennaʹs Modal Syllogistic / Tony Street

- 5. The Distinction between Essence and Existence in Avicennaʹs Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context / Amos Bertolacci

- 6. Hofischer Stil und wissenschaftliche Rhetorik: al-Kindi als Epistolograph / Gerhard Endress

- 7. New Philosophical Texts of Yahya ibn Adi: a Supplement to Endressʹ Analytical Inventory / Robert Wisnovsky

- 8. Avicennaʹs Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taskik al-wugud, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources / Alexander Treiger

Part III. 4. Muslim Traditional Sciences. 1. The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Quran in Mutazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahdib of al-Hakim al-Gisumi (d. 494/1101) / Suleiman Mourad

- 2. Attributing Causality to Godʹs Law: the Solution of Fahr ad-Din ar-Razi / Felicitas Opwis

- 3. Kitab al-Hayda: The Historical Significance of an Apocryphal Text / Racha El Omari

- 4. 4.4 From al-Mamun to Ibn Sabin via Avicenna: Ibn Taymiyaʹs Historiography of Falsafa / Yahya Michot.

Islamic philosophy > Greek influences.

Science > Islamic countries > History.

E.J. Brill (Firm)