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Overview
This broad, comprehensive, and yet concise introduction presents a reading of Islamic philosophy as it evolved in the Middle Ages, investigating how Islamic philosophers thought and what they thought about. The book is divided into two parts: the first part explores the epistemological foundations of Islamic philosophy and discusses the most important and penetrating interpretative paradigms proposed by the philosophers; the second part describes some of their major themes. Each chapter is organised chronologically and geographically, providing the reader with a lucid profile of the evolution of Islamic philosophical thought, with reference to specific themes within the broader framework of Islamic history. Translations from primary sources allow the philosophers to speak for themselves throughout.
Edinburgh University Press
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Massimo Campanini is Professor of Arabic Culture at the University of Milan
Edinburgh University Press
Table of Contents
A Note on the Translation
Pt. 1 Finding a Paradigm
Ch. 1 History 3
Ch. 2 What is Medieval Islamic Philosophy? 35
Ch. 3 Ways of Philosophising 64
Pt. 2 Thought and Action: Some Major Themes in Islamic Philosophy
Ch. 4 Tawhid, Pillar of Islamic Thought 75
Ch. 5 The Structure of the Cosmos 94
Ch. 6 The Human Intellect 108
Ch. 7 Necessity or Freedom in Divine Action 126
Ch. 8 Ethics and Politics 142
Notes 165
Bibliography 175
Bibliography of English-language Versions 182
Index 183