Celama 08 Avicenna and His Legacy Langermann: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages)

"The centuries immediately following upon the monumental achievements of Avicenna (d. 1036) have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by the master. Critical thinking in logic and astronomy, medicine and metaphysics spurred many new developments. This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and his critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. The contributors to Avicenna and his Legacy include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation."-- Back cover Front matter (“Contents”, “Foreword”), p. i Free Access Avicenna’s Immediate Disciples: Their Lives and Works, p. 1 Ahmed H. al-Rahim https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1520 Al-Ghazālī’s Cosmology in the Veil Section of his Mishkāt al-Anwār, p. 27 Frank Griffel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1521 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Falsafa: Al-Ghazālī’s Maḍnūn, Tahāfut, and Maqāṣid, with Particular Attention to their Falsafī Treatments of God’s Knowledge of Temporal Events, p. 51 M. Afifi Al-Akiti https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1522 Ibn al-‛Arabī’s Attitude toward al-Ghazālī, p. 101 Binyamin Abrahamov https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1523 The al-Ghazālī Conspiracy: Reflections on the Inter-Mediterranean Dimension of Islamic Intellectual History, p. 117 Anna Akasoy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1524 The Chapter ‘On Existence and Non-existence’ of Ibn Kammūna’s al-Jadīd fī l-Ḥikma: Trends and Sources in an Author’s Shaping the Exegetical Tradition of al-Suhrawardī’s Ontology, p. 143 Heidrun Eichner https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1525 Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) on the Argument of the Flying Man in Avicenna’s Ishārāt and al-Suhrawardī’s Talwīḥāt, p. 179 Lukas Muehlethaler https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1526 Al-Āmidī’s Reception of Ibn Sīnā: Reading Al-Nūr al-Bāhir fī al-Ḥikam al-Zawāhir, p. 205 Syamsuddin Arif https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1527 The Virtuous Son of the Rational: A Traditionalist’s Response to the Falāsifa, p. 219 Nahyan Fancy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1528 Existence Deriving from ‘the Existent’: Mulla Sadra with Ibn Sīnā and al-Suhrawardī, p. 249 David B. Burrell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1529 Arabic Logicians on Perfect and Imperfect Syllogisms: A Supplement to Patzig’s ‘Historical Excursus’, p. 257 Robert Wisnovsky https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1530 Avicenna: Providence and God’s Knowledge of Particulars, p. 275 S. Nusseibeh https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1531 Is Medicine an ‛ilm? A Preliminary Note on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s al-Tuḥfa al-sa‛diyya (MS Şehid ‛Ali Peşa 2047), p. 289 Leigh N. Chipman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1532 The Khilāṣ kayfiyyat tarkīb al-aflāk of al-Jūzjānī: A Preliminary Description of its Avicennian Themes, p. 301 F. Jamil Ragep https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1533 Falsafa and Astronomy after Avicenna: An Evolving Relationship, p. 307 Robert Morrison https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1534 Avicenna’s Influence on Jewish Thought: Some Reflections, p. 327 Steven Harvey https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1535 New Light on Maimonidean Writings on Metempsychosis and the Influence of Avicenna, p. 341 Paul B. Fenton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.3.1536 Back matter (“Index of Names”, “Index of Works”), p. 369 For a variety of reasons we are witnessing a great surge of interest in Islamic civilization, especially the place of the rational sciences within Islamic civilization. Scholarship on the early phases of science and philosophy in Islam (up to the eleventh century) is well-established, and there are numerous studies available. However, far less has been published on the next phase, which includes Avicenna (d. 1036) and the critical analysis of his oeuvre through the fifteenth century. Despite this scholarly and critical gap, the centuries immediately following the monumental achievements of Avicenna have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by the master. Critical thinking in logic, astronomy, medicine, and metaphysics spurred many new developments. This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. These essays consider subjects including Islamic intellectual history, the nature of divine knowledge, astronomy, cosmology, medicine, ontology, philosophy, and the exegetical method. The contributors to Avicenna and his Legacy include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation.