Medieval Arabic thought : essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann / edited by Rotraud Hansberger, M. Afifi al-Akiti and Charles Burnett.
Uniform Title: | Warburg Institute studies and texts ;
4. |
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Language: | English |
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Articles primarily in English with one French and one Greek. |
Published: |
London : Turin :
Warburg Institute ; Nino Aragno Editore,
2012.
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Series: | Warburg Institute studies and texts ;
4. |
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Physical Description: | viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Variant Title: |
Essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface
- Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson
- The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
- Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
- Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless
- Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand
- Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
- Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and Donatist Christian thought / Wilferd Madelung
- The absurdaties of infinite time: Shahrastānī's critique of Ibn Sīnā and Ṭūsī's defence / Goby Mayer
- The Islamic literature on encounters between Muslim renunciants and Christiam monks / Christopher Melchert
- The development of translation techniques from Greek into Syriac and Arabic: the case of Galen's On the faculties and powers of simple drugs, book six / Peter E. Pormann
- The working files of Rhazes: are the Jāmiʻ and the Ḥāwī identical? / Emilie Savage-Smith
- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji
- [Greek title] / Manfred Ullman
- On coincidence: the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight nights of al-Tawḥīdī's al-Imtāʻ wa-l-muʼānasa. An annotated translation / Geert Jan van Gelder
- Fragments of the hitherto lost Arabic translations of Galen's On my own opinions in the philosophy reader MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oriental Collections, Marsh 539 / Elvira Wakelnig
- A list of publications of Fritz Zimmermann
- Index of proper names.