IN THE AGE OF AL-FARABI
Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ulrich Rudolph: Reflections on al-Fārābī’s Mabādi᾿ ārā᾿ ahl al-madīna al-fādila
Deborah L. Black: Al-Fārābī on Meno’s Paradox
Elias Giannakis: Anaxagoras in the Baghdad Physics
Carl Ehrig-Eggert: Yahyā ibn ῾Adī on Universals and the Intellect
Dominique Urvoy: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and Yahyā ibn ῾Ādī
Peter Adamson: Platonic Pleasures in Epicurus and al-Rāzī
P. E. Pormann:  Medical Methodology and Hospital Practice: The Case of Fourth-/Tenth-Century Baghdad
Lutz Richter-Bernburg: Abū Bakr al-Rāzī and al-Fārābī on Medicine and Authority
Daniel De Smet: Al-Fārābī᾿s Influence on Hamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Theory of Intellect and Soul
Antonella Straface: An Esoteric Interpretation of the Basmala in the Kitāb Shajarat al-yaqīn
Carmela Baffioni: Metaphors of Light and the ‘Verse of Light’ in the Brethren of Purity
Godefroid de Callataÿ: World Cycles and Geological Changes according to the Brethren of Purity
Paul L. Heck: Doubts about the Religious Community (Milla) in al-Fārābī and the Brethren of Purity
Elvira Wakelnig: Philosophical Fragments of al-῾Āmirī Preserved Mainly in al-Tawhīdī, Miskawayh, and in the Texts of the Siwān al-hikma Tradition
David C. Reisman: An Obscure Neoplatonist of the Fourth/Tenth Century and the Putative Philoponus Source
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt: Ibn Farīghūn on Communication
Marwan Rashed: New Evidence on the Critique of the Qur᾿ānic Miracle at the End of the Third/Ninth Century: Qustā ibn Lūqā vs. the Banū al-Munajjim

• 978-0-85481-147-2
• 2008
• €40.00