From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond: Volume 3: From God ́s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism, B. History of Science

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. The collection contains published (since 1967) and unpublished works in English, German, Arabic, Persian and Turkish, including editions of Arabic and Syriac texts. The publication mirrors the intercultural character of Islamic thought and sheds new light on many aspects ranging from the Greek pre-Socratics to the Malaysian philosopher Naquib al-Attas. A main concern is the interpretation of texts in print or in manuscripts, culminating in two catalogues (Vol. V and VI), which contain descriptions of newly discovered, mainly Arabic, manuscripts in all fields. Vol. I: Graeco-Syriaca and Arabica. Vol. II: Islamic Philosophy. Vol. III: From God’s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism; B. History of Science. Vol. IV: Islam, Europe and Beyond: A. Islam and Middle Ages; B. Manuscripts – a Basis of Knowledge and Science; C. History of the Discipline; D. Obituaries; E. Indexes. Vol. V: Unknown Arabic Manuscripts from Eight Centuries – Including one Hebrew and Two Ethiopian Manuscripts: Daiber Collection III. Vol. VI: Arabic, Syriac, Persian and Latin Manuscripts on Philosophy, Theology, Science and Literature. Films and Offprints: Daiber Collection IV. Prof. Dr. Hans Daiber (born 1942), PhD (1968), was Professor of Arabic and Islam at the Free University Amsterdam (1977-95), of oriental languages at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. (1995-2010) until his retirement. He published a.o. Aetius Arabus (Steiner 1980), Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy (3 vols., Brill 1999; 2007) and Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures. A Historical and Bibliographical Survey (Brill 2012). ‎Contents ‎Abbreviations ‎Rules of Transliteration ‎Part A. Islamic Theology and Sufism ‎Chapter 1. Gottesliebe und menschliche Größe im frühen Islam ‎Chapter 2. Sharing Religious Experience as a Problem in Early Islamic Mysticism ‎Chapter 3. Literarischer Prozess zwischen Fiktion und Wirklichkeit ‎Chapter 4. Rebellion gegen Gott ‎Chapter 5. Šaqāwa ‎Chapter 6. Muʿammar Ibn ʿAbbād as-Sulamī ‎Chapter 7. Muḥammad Ibn Aṣbaġ ‎Chapter 8. Murdār, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā Ibn Ṣubayḥ al- ‎Chapter 9. Zur Erstausgabe von Māturīdī, Kitāb at-Tawḥīd ‎Chapter 10. Die Stellung des Theologen Abū l-Layṯ as-Samarqandī in der Schule des Māturīdī ‎Ilahiyatçı Abū l-Layṯ as-Samarqandī’nin Māturīdī Okulu’ndaki Yeri ‎Chapter 11. The Creed (ʿAqīda) of the Hanbalite Ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī ‎Chapter 12. The Qurʾān as a “Shibboleth” of Varying Conceptions of the Godhead ‎Chapter 13. Die Kreuzzüge im Lichte islamischer Theologie ‎Chapter 14. Maqāla fī r-radd ʿalā l-Muǧbira (MS Naǧaf) Attributed to ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār al-Hamaḏānī ‎Chapter 15. Plague and Consolation in a Newly Discovered Text by Zakariyāʾ al-Anṣārī (d. 926/1520) ‎Reviews ‎Chapter 16. Josef van Ess Die Erkenntnislehre des ʿAḍudaddīn al-Īcī (1966) ‎Chapter 17. Josef van Ess Das Kitāb an-Nakṯ des Naẓẓām und seine Rezeption im Kitāb al-Futyā des Ǧāḥiẓ (1972) ‎Chapter 18. Tilman Nagel Frühe Ismailiya und Fatimiden im Lichte der Risālat iftitāḥ ad-daʿwa (1972) ‎Chapter 19. Mustafa Ghaleb (ed.) Die ismailitische Theologie des Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥusain al-Ḥāmidī (1971) ‎Chapter 20. James A. Bellamy (ed.) Ibn Abī d-Dunyā, The Noble Qualities of Character (1973) ‎Chapter 21. Bernd Radtke Al-Ḥakīm at-Tirmiḏī (1980) ‎Chapter 22. Miguel Asin Palacios The Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Masarra and His Followers (1978) ‎Chapter 23. Louis Pouzet Une herméneutique de la tradition islamique Le commentaire des Arbaʿūn Al-Nawawīya de Muḥyī Al-Dīn Yaḥyā Al-Nawawī (m. 676/1277) (1982) ‎Chapter 24. Khalil Samir (ed.) and Paul Nwyia (transl.) Une correspondence islamo-chrétienne entre ibn al-Munaǧǧim, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq et Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (1981) ‎Chapter 25. Michael Cook Early Muslim Dogma (1981) ‎Chapter 26. Richard Macdonough Frank Beings and Their Attributes (1978) ‎Chapter 27. Hazrat Inayat Khan Das Lied in allen Dingen. Sufi-Erzählungen und Gleichnisse vom Glück der Harmonie (1985) ‎Chapter 28. Georges Vajda (ed., transl.) Al-Kitāb al-Muḥtawī de Yūsuf al-Baṣīr (1985) ‎Chapter 29. Eric Linn Ormsby Theodicy in Islamic Thought (1984) ‎Chapter 30. Ismail Hakki Bursevi’s Translation of and Commentary on Fusus Al-Hikam by Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Rendered into English by Bulent Rauf (1986) ‎Chapter 31. Wilferd Madelung (ed.) Die Streitschrift (Kitāb an-Naǧāt) des Zaiditenimams Aḥmad an-Nāṣir wider die ibaditische Prädestinationslehre (1985) ‎Chapter 32. Daniel Gimaret Les noms divins en Islam (1988) ‎Chapter 33. ʿA. ʿA. Elschazlī (transl.) Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, Der Erretter aus dem Irrtum (1988) ʿA. ʿA. Elschazlī (transl.) Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, Die Nische der Lichter (1987) ‎Chapter 34. Bo Holmberg (ed.) A Treatise on the Unity and Trinity of God by Israel of Kashkar (d. 872) (1989) ‎Chapter 35. Daniel Gimaret La doctrine d’al-Ashʿari (1990) ‎Chapter 36. Tilman Nagel Geschichte der islamischen Theologie (1994) ‎Part B. History of Science ‎Chapter 1. Die Technik im Islam ‎Chapter 2. ‮الإسلام وعلاقته بالعلم والتقنية‬‎ ‎Chapter 3. The Way from God’s Wisdom to Science in Islam ‎Chapter 4. Erkenntnistheoretische Grundlagen der Wetterprognose bei den Arabern ‎Chapter 5. Meteorology among the Arabs ‎Chapter 6. Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā (3./9. Jh.) über die Einteilung der Wissenschaften ‎Chapter 7. Fārābīs Abhandlung über das Vakuum ‎Chapter 8. The Contribution of Islam to Science in the 4th/10th Century ‎Chapter 9. ‮الوزير البويهي أبو الفضل ابن العميد‬‎ ‎Chapter 10. Abū l-Faraǧ Ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib on Plants ‎Chapter 11. Die Faḍāʾil-Literatur als Quelle der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ‎Chapter 12. Science Connecting Scholars and Cultures in Ḫwārazm ‎Chapter 13. Aristotle’s Meteorology in 18th-Century Egypt ‎Reviews ‎Chapter 14. Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan, Ghada Karmi & Nizar Namnum (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Symposium for the History of Arabic Science (April 5–12, 1976) (1978) ‎Chapter 15. Anton M. Heinen Islamic Cosmology. A Study of as-Suyūṭī’s al-Hayʾa as-sanīya fī l-hayʾa as-sunnīya (1982) ‎Chapter 16. Joseph Needham Science and Civilisation in China Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. IV (1980) ‎Chapter 17. Paul Kraus Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān (1986) ‎Chapter 18. Robert G. Morrison Islam and Science. The intellectual career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (2007) "From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber's scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. The collection contains published (since 1967) and unpublished works in English, German, Arabic, Persian and Turkish, including editions of Arabic and Syriac texts. The publication mirrors the intercultural character of Islamic thought and sheds new light on many aspects ranging from the Greek pre-Socratics to the Malaysian philosopher Naquib al-Attas. A main concern is the interpretation of texts in print or in manuscripts, culminating in two catalogues (Vol. 5 and 6), which contain descriptions of newly discovered, mainly Arabic, manuscripts in all fields. Vol. 1: Graeco-Syriaca and Arabica. Vol. 2: Islamic Philosophy. Vol. 3: From God's Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism; B. History of Science. Vol. 4: Islam, Europe and Beyond: A. Islam and Middle Ages; B. Manuscripts - a Basis of Knowledge and Science; C. History of the Discipline; D. Obituaries; E. Indexes. Vol. 5: Unknown Arabic Manuscripts from Eight Centuries - Including one Hebrew and Two Ethiopian Manuscripts: Daiber Collection III. Vol. 6: Arabic, Syriac, Persian and Latin Manuscripts on Philosophy, Theology, Science and Literature. Films and Offprints: Daiber Collection IV"-- Provided by publisher In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in other non-scientific writings. Sources suggest that Nisaburi was inspired to begin his scientific career by the inclusion of basic science in a religious (madrasa) education. By mid-career, he had found methodological similarities between theoretical astronomy and Islamic jurisprudence. Morrison concludes that while Nisaburi believed science could give one a taste of God's knowledge, he realised that the study of science and natural philosophy alone could not lead him to a spiritual union with God. Only Sufi practice and Sufi theory could accomplish that.Morrison's work is remarkable in synthesizing the history of Islamic science with other areas of Islamic studies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and the history of science, as well as readers with a more general interest in Middle Eastern studies.Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009 From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond' written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber?s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. The collection contains published (since 1967) and unpublished works in English, German, Arabic, Persian and Turkish, including editions of Arabic and Syriac texts. The publication mirrors the intercultural character of Islamic thought and sheds new light on many aspects ranging from the Greek pre-Socratics to the Malaysian philosopher Naquib al-Attas.0Vol. III: From God?s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism; B. History of Science Reconstructing Nīsābūrī's Early Education -- Nīsābūrī's Early Scientific Thought -- Nīsābūrī's Early Religious Thought -- Astrology Providing A Foundation For Conclusions About God's Power -- Nīsābūrī's Later Scientific Thought -- The Impact Of Science On Nīsābūrī's Religious Thought -- The Limits Of Science's Influence On Nīsābūrī's Religious Thought. Robert G. Morrison. Series Numbering Added Retrospectively From Publisher's Listing In Vol. 10 Which Differs From Retrospective List In Vol. 12. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 273-288) And Indexes. The Fifth Volume Of Dr Needham's Immense Undertaking, Like The Fourth, Is Subdivided Into Parts For Ease Of Assimilation And Presentation, Each Part Bound And Published Separately. The Volume As A Whole Covers The Subjects Of Alchemy, Early Chemistry, And Chemical Technology (which Includes Military Invention, Especially Gunpowder And Rockets; Paper And Printing; Textiles; Mining And Metallurgy; The Salt Industry; And Ceramics). Introduction Reconstructing Nisaburi's early education Nisaburi's early scientific thought Nisaburi's early religious thought Astrology motivating inductions about God's power Nisaburi's later scientific thought The impact of science on Nisaburi's religious thought The limits of science's influence on Nisaburi's religious thought Conclusion. Breaking new ground in the study of the important relationship between science and Islam, this text focuses in particular on the famous work of the great 14th century Iranian scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi. It counters the prevailing view of the decline of Islamic culture in the 14th century Par Paul Kraus. Reprint. Originally Published As V. 2 Of A 2 V. Work Under Same Title: Le Caire, 1942. (mémoires Institut D'egypte ; 45) Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.