Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam; Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām; Vol. I

The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (De anima, Themistius on the Metaphysics, Plotinus in Syriac, 'anniya) and the terminology of early kalam. Other articles deal with Islamic theology and its early development, especially in its relation to philosophy (in particular the kalam of Jahm ibn Safwan and al-Ghazali), and the text and translation of two short dogmatic works by the mystic al-Qushayri. The collection is prefaced by a fascinating autobiographical memoir which traces the intellectual development of the author and the reasoning that led him, from study to study, to his discovery of the way of thinking of the theologians and to an understanding of the essential core of Islamic theology. Cover Series Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements I: Yā Kalām II: Some Fragments of Isḥāq's Translation of the De Anima III: Some Textual Notes on the Oriental Versions of Themistius’ Paraphrase of Book A of the Metaphysics IV: The Origin of the Arabic Philosophical Term 'Annīya V: The Use of the Enneads by John of Scythopolis VI: Remarks on the Early Development of the Kalām VII: Reason and Revealed Law: A Sample of Parallels and Divergences in Kalām and Falsafa VIII: Currents and Countercurrents [In the Mu‘tazila, Ash'arites and Al-Ghazālī] IX: The Neoplatonism of Jahm Ibn Ṣafwān X: Al-Ghazālī on Taqlīd. Scholars, Theologians, and Philosophers XI: Al-Ghazālī's use of Avicenna's Philosophy XII: Meanings are Spoken of in Many Ways: The Earlier Arab Grammarians XIII: "Lam Yazal" as a Formal Term in Muslim Theological Discourse XIV: Two Short Dogmatic Works of Abū l-Qāsim Al-Qushayrī, Part 1: Edition and Translation of Luma 'fī l-i 'Tiqād XV: Two Short Dogmatic Works of Abū l-Qāsim Al-Qushayrī, Part 2: Edition and Translation of al-Fuṣūl Fī l-uṣūl Index v. 1. Philosophy, theology and mysticism in medieval Islam v. 2. Early Islamic theology : the Muʻtazilites and al-Ashʻarī v. 3. Classical Islamic theology : the Ashʻarites.