Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings

✍ Scribed by Muhammad Ali Khalidi

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although strongly influenced by Greek thought, Islamic philosophers also developed an original philosophical culture of their own which flourished from the ninth through the fourteenth century. This volume offers new translations of philosophical writings by Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). A historical and philosophical introduction sets the writings in context and traces their preoccupations and their achievements.

✦ Table of Contents

Series-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Al-Farabi, The Book of Letters......Page 16
Ibn Sina, On the Soul......Page 20
Al-Ghazali, The Rescuer from Error......Page 26
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy bin Yaqzan......Page 31
Ibn Rushd, The Incoherence of the Incoherence......Page 36
Chronology......Page 43
Translations......Page 45
Secondary literature in English......Page 46
Note on the translation......Page 49
Al-Farabi, The Book of Letters......Page 51
[202] Of the rational soul......Page 77
Of the theoretical faculty and its ranks......Page 79
On the means by which the rational soul acquires knowledge......Page 81
On the ranking of faculties in terms of ruling and serving......Page 82
On the difference between apprehension by sensation, representation, estimation, and the intellect......Page 83
Elaboration of the claim that the substance that is the receptacle for the intelligibles is immaterial......Page 86
The intellectual faculty does not reason by means of the bodily instrument......Page 91
On the assistance given by the bodily faculties to the rational soul......Page 95
On the proof of the origination of the soul......Page 96
The soul does not die with the body, nor is it corrupted......Page 98
Refutation of reincarnation......Page 102
[228] On the unity of the soul......Page 103
[231] On using the states of the rational soul to infer the existence of the Active Intellect, and on explaining It in some respect......Page 107
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy bin Yaqzan......Page 109
Ibn Rushd, The Incoherence of the Incoherence......Page 205
Index......Page 231