Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī [PDF]
This article explores a previously unknown twelfth-century debate surrounding Avicenna’s theory of matter, in particular his views that, being deprived of actuality, prime matter is non-corporeal, and that body is invested with corporeity by a ...
Shihadeh, Ayman
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Intellecting the Intellected: An Examination on the Interpretation of “the Second Intelligibles” in Islamic Tradition of Logic and its Reception during the Ottoman Period [PDF]
The interpretation of the “second intelligibles” (al-ma‘qūlāt al-thāniya/al-ma‘qūlāt al-thawānī), as a term which is highly sophisticated and closely related to many philosophical disciplines, began with al-Fārābī and continued to expand its content ...
Ömer Mahir Alper
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Unfertige Studien II: Bemerkungen zum Korankommentar des Aṣamm [PDF]
Abu Bakr al-Asamm’s (d. 200/816 or 201/817) commentary of the Qur’an is one of the oldest of its genre. It originated in Basra but seems to have become a “book” only when, in the middle of the 3rd century H., it was transferred from Baghdad to Eastern ...
van Ess, Josef
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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The modern study of Ḥanbalī theology was initially plagued by the problem of viewing Ḥanbalism through the eyes of its Ashʿarī opponents. I. Goldziher (d. 1921) and D. B. Macdonald (d.
Hoover, Jon
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By the thirteenth century, philosophy, politics and occult science had become deeply entangled in the Persianate Islamic world. Two of the greatest luminaries in this intellectual milieu were Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210) and Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Ibn ...
Michael Noble
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Impossible Antecedents and Their Consequences: Some Thirteenth-Century Arabic Discussions [PDF]
The principle that a necessarily false proposition implies any proposition, and that a necessarily true proposition is implied by any proposition, was apparently first propounded in twelfth century Latin logic, and came to be widely, though not ...
El-Rouayheb, Khaled
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Falling to Pieces: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Mereology and the Dilemma of Multi-Located Accidents [PDF]
This paper offers a detailed reconstruction of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s mereology. First, it tackles the semantics of the concepts “parthood” and “wholeness,” their epistemic status, and their extension relative to one another.
Francesco Omar Zamboni
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Empathy, a Facility to Reduce Conflict Among Individuals and Societies, and the Qur’ān [PDF]
The aim of this study is to clarify whether the content of empathy, which is considered the process that motivates prosocial behaviour and prevents individuals and people doing harm to each other, is in harmony with the Qurʾān or not.
Kayacan, Murat
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Knowing the Unknown: The Paradox of “The Absolute Unknown” From Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to Tashkoprizada [PDF]
A paradox that originated from Plato’s Meno and that perpetuated throughout the classical period of the history of Islamic philosophy within the same structure seems to have been reconstructed by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210), and hence gained a new
Harun Kuşlu
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